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JamesPa
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RE: ASHP & Buffer Tanks

Unless your system volume is very low it's likely, given those those figures, that your buffer tank is costing you 10%+ in efficiency or thereabouts, ...

2 years ago
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RE: Do setbacks save energy without compromising comfort?

@kev-m It's good to know that this is possible. I suspect, however, that the people best able to devise a central heating control system don't work ...

2 years ago
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RE: Do setbacks save energy without compromising comfort?

My post on the subject a few months back was a crude attempt at just such a model. Basically it considered the house as a single mass, leant heavily...

2 years ago
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RE: Do setbacks save energy without compromising comfort?

Sorry but this and the like is a part of the reason that I am losing interest. To me its vital, where complex systems are involved (which this clea...

2 years ago
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RE: Do setbacks save energy without compromising comfort?

To be honest I don't see a difference between a 2.6kWh 'error' and a 3kWh 'error' on a value if 36kW. Both are within the quite evident noise. Also...

2 years ago
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RE: Do setbacks save energy without compromising comfort?

It is indeed exactly that. There is a very plausible argument that fast cycling, at a rate sufficiently fast that the temperature of the circulatin...

2 years ago
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RE: Do setbacks save energy without compromising comfort?

Fair enough! As I have said many times in other contexts, good enough is good enough and the perfect is sometimes the enemy of the good That...

2 years ago
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RE: Do setbacks save energy without compromising comfort?

"I get what you are saying but reckon the heatpump is restricting me" Yes, I think so. The case where a heat pump wont modulate down to the lev...

2 years ago
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RE: Do setbacks save energy without compromising comfort?

What this is much more likely to indicate is indicate is that, at your current flow temperature, you are pumping in more energy than you need if you o...

2 years ago
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RE: Do setbacks save energy without compromising comfort?

Noted and good and I apologise that I thought that you might have been implying that. I have when I talk about the effect of thermal mass. As I...

2 years ago
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RE: Do setbacks save energy without compromising comfort?

I am absolutely not taking sides here and personally believe that everyone is telling the truth of what they see. What I do observe is differences o...

2 years ago
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