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I don't disagree for a minute with some of the sentiments about gas prices vs electricity etc but, to add some balance to the argument: My heat pump...
If your statement were 'WC doesn't work in your house' then it might be true. As it stands, apparently intended to be generally and widely applicable...
Very well said. When people complain about 'the council's or 'the government' I've taken to asking them 'so what would you do instead then?'. Mostl...
I find it faintly amusing that nobody ever worries about a heat pump cycling more or less continuously when it's their fridge, but gets extremely conc...
You are right that the lag from when the heating controller responds to when the house responds is of course the same whether the controller responds ...
This is how I would set it up Firstly a WC curve tuned to house. Start at 20 Deg outside and min flow temp of heat pump 20 or 25. End point at your...
That's fair enough, I did say that there are exceptions (I think the only significant ones may be wind and solar gain) and there is no perfect solutio...
Because of the lag in response. Simple as that. Look to control theory to explain why this is a problem. If your house has the thermal characterist...
I'm answer to all of that, my house is much more stable run on pure WC than it ever was on a temperature sensor (with a boiler or a heat pump). This ...
On what do you base that assertion please? There are plenty of people on this forum running on pure wc achieving comfortable and stable house temper...
I'm curious who you think are the reluctant ears. Certainly not me, and if you do think i am one of the people you refer to, then you are misundersta...
If that is the case then I would add to my earlier post: I would try to avoid getting a heat pump now that will be significantly oversized once the...
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