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JamesPa
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RE: What do we need to know before installing a heat pump?

Of the four suggestions for regulatory change that came out of this forum only one (number 3) related to government subsidy, so your comment applies ...

2 years ago
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RE: What do we need to know before installing a heat pump?

I have read them thanks, and similar comments elsewhere, my comment was sarchastic, apologies for not making that clear. I also have experience of ...

2 years ago
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RE: What do we need to know before installing a heat pump?

As it happens I agree with you on this, it was suggested by another on this forum and there is an argument for. However, like you, I fear that there ...

2 years ago
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RE: What do we need to know before installing a heat pump?

@transparent If you do provide the link note that the topic begins on another tack (mostly to trigger discussion, partially because there might be som...

2 years ago
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RE: What do we need to know before installing a heat pump?

@transparent In another thread the following set of measures emerged (with a fair level of agreement) to open up the market and release MCS from its s...

2 years ago
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RE: What do we need to know before installing a heat pump?

I thought MCS was supposed to ensure that the industry has high standards, or at least that's what people keep telling me. Am I wrong or is it failin...

2 years ago
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RE: What do we need to know before installing a heat pump?

@batalto well that's scuppered the explanation I had in mind for why heat pumps are more efficient at low temperature than at high temperature, and wh...

2 years ago
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RE: What do we need to know before installing a heat pump?

Picture of a bottom discharge hopper wagon courtesy of Peco

2 years ago
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RE: What do we need to know before installing a heat pump?

Its not a bad analogy However the coal is offloaded at the radiators through the bottom of the truck, so the amount offloaded (deltaT) depends on...

2 years ago
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RE: What do we need to know before installing a heat pump?

Surely its more likely that @cathoderay adjusted his wc curve with the PHE in place, so the settings already take account of its effect. Of course, a...

2 years ago
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RE: What do we need to know before installing a heat pump?

I can certainly agree with that. I reckon that there are a fair few PhDs in 'optimised' control of heat pump central heating systems under various se...

2 years ago
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RE: What do we need to know before installing a heat pump?

Even a lossless PHE will reduce the system efficiency because the flow on the CH side is necessarily colder than the flow on the CH side and thus the ...

2 years ago
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