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You are being too traditional, heat pumps mostly should be run 24*7 as low as possible. There are of course exceptions if you cant get this to work, ...
Im with @editor on this, but its definitely worth experimenting. Many (including me) do find that pure weather compensation with absolutely no room...
Not materially, the amount of air shifted when its cold means that its essentially sampling the general air temperature. If it can be in full sun the...
Was there any more detail or it that it? Its over 8kW, and by the time they make an allowance for DHW they would be able to argue for 12kW based on t...
I have to agree that in many cases ToU tarrifs will dominate. I guess I should've framed the question as 'in the absence of ToU tarrifs!
Not sure about this. The heat pump sees the water returning from the fins, which will be at a temperature determined by the defrost process not any t...
Not sure about this. The heat pump sees the water returning from the fins, which will be at a temperature determined by the defrost process not any t...
@eliuccio Unfortunately, whilst I agree with a lot of what is said above, I dont agree with all of it. For clarity: Firstly Whilst I agree t...
Whilst I agree with the final conclusion (flow side placement appears to be best, perhaps with the exception that if the volumiser is outside the insu...
It makes sense, although shows a complete lack of thought on the part of the designers (which is disappointing) about the things that they could do, w...
No need for apologies, just cautioning about getting too hung up on all of the mistakes (of which there appear to be plenty enough to make a case) and...
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