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Not really that much wasted. In winter, assuming your DHW tank is within the heated envelope of the house, it offsets the space heating, so no actu...
The second one avoids the possibility that all the hot water collects at the top and is bypassed by the returning flow. Not a lot really, but perhap...
I think the physics is your enemy here. Water has an enormous heat capacity compared to more or less anything else. So it needs a lot of energy to he...
It's a good question and one which I have asked myself. We really need a solar panel physicist to answer, I am a lapsed physicist but never really st...
The volumiser provides extra system volume which may reduce cycling or may be necessary for defrost if your system doesn't otherwise have sufficient w...
I believe so, we are looking for difference so as long as you can clamp consistently then it doesn't matter if the figure isn't perfect. I stress th...
@tim441 if you want to you can work out roughly how much it's costing by measuring the temperature drop across the buffer flow to flow. The cost is r...
15% or more typically The problem is not loss of energy (which as you say is small) its reduction in flow temperature to the emitters (due to the mi...
Pretty much that, basically (1) make sure that the fabric model represents the actual fabric and (2) adjust the ACH to fit measured loss. Here is th...
As long as they follow the weather compensation I wouldn't worry for now, You probably won't want room influence anyway. If they aren't following th...
3 times per hour is reasonable. Are you sure it isn't doing defrost rather than cycling because of overcapacity?
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