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@tomdad Here is some more detail. Firstly your heat pump is capable of operating at 55 or 35 or anywhere in between and indeed for a bit either si...
Thats the main consideration. You need to calculate btu or kW at your design flow temperature and compare with the room heat loss. Towel rails emit...
The point to understand is that cycling basically occurs because the heat demand from the house is less than the minimum that the compressor can produ...
That's a bit of a red flag. I don't think your WC settings are correct. No panic because the heating season is more or less over but some tweaks dur...
A couple of things: 1. You should be running on weather compensation (WC) so that the FT reduces as the outdoor temp increases. Your installer shou...
OK, thats good and low. With low flow temperatures like this there is less to be gained by operating weather compensation than if you were operating ...
Can I suggest you read (if you havent already) this 'starters guide' to heat pumps? I think you may be getting things confused. Firstly dont wo...
The guy was right as regards buffer tanks, avoid. However a 2 port volumiser is ok. Unfortunately terminology isn't quite consistent. Check that it...
@cliffhanger Mine has a 'space heating off' setting! Otherwise turn down thermostat if you have one and it's set up to call for heat
That's a good analysis. Presumably heat pump manufacturers design on the assumption that the heat pump is right sized. The typical oversized heat pu...
@adamk Sounds encouraging, what about any independent measure of total loss eg from current gas/oil consumption. Rooms share heat to a fair extent s...
I apologise if this has been covered already but have you got any way to sense check loss calculations eg from past usage. The two, three hour full p...
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