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@tinkestral-6 Thanks for the picture. Is there a model number or any other ID on the rear?
Not particularly. Middle of day gives best efficiency, middle of night less efficient but a time when you are happy to have the house cool a bit. If...
Somehow that feels like the basis of a motto/strapline. Without a doubt the combination of the nonlinear response to the main variables, the inhere...
@tinkestral-6 OK lets get back to doing some basic optimisation on your system. The good news is that you dont have a buffer or (so far as can be t...
Mostly (but not completely) I agree with @uk_pete_2000 I would say I would go with your gut and have two slots to heat DHW and go from there...
@alfapat OK, thats very helpfu. If you just record your values for the FSVs in the first picture that should be fine. Most will probably be as per...
er no picture, please post picture of tank and halo. When you turned up the WC from 0.8 to 1 did it change the temperature of the house?
Can I ask what triggered you to do this. Did it change the house temperature? (No implied criticism, just trying to find out a bit of the background...
Not much to discuss based on that, the experiment seems to match what one would expect from a bit of logic (Yay!)
My strong gut feel is that, if you bypass the pump in the secondary, turn the thermostat up to full, bypass the buffer, it will work. Basically the h...
Thats not directly relevant because you are comparing real time heating with stored hot water. Real time heating is dominated by the raw power you ca...
I guess that depends on where you measure it. If measured at the heat pump then the flow rate for any given heat transfer at any given deltaT (across...
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