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RE: How To Balance Radiators & the Role of the Lockshield Valve: A Homeowner's Guide

I think those wires might be sensor connections possibly to the points marked wht 1 2 on the diagram

2 years ago
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RE: Controversial opinions - pure weather compensation, buffer tank, heat loss, oversized heat pumps

Agree with the internet connection comment, although I think (but may be wrong) it relies on this only for the more advanced features like tariff opti...

2 years ago
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RE: Controversial opinions - pure weather compensation, buffer tank, heat loss, oversized heat pumps

Agreed, but it needs to be specific to heat pumps and learning of course. Homely goes half way to this (for the heat pumps it supports) but doesn't a...

2 years ago
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RE: How To Balance Radiators & the Role of the Lockshield Valve: A Homeowner's Guide

Sounds like the HP side pumps are controlled by the HP. By zone valves you mean the two valves which either switch to CH or DHW?

2 years ago
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RE: Controversial opinions - pure weather compensation, buffer tank, heat loss, oversized heat pumps

Thats definitely true. There is a good reason however, its very difficult to do meaningful experiments and/or draw sound conclusions from the experim...

2 years ago
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RE: How To Balance Radiators & the Role of the Lockshield Valve: A Homeowner's Guide

Glad its warmer and more particularly more consistent. Be careful about concluding its costing more though, the last few days were quite a lot colder...

2 years ago
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RE: Vaillant Noise Reduction effect

I think the fundamentals are this: NR clamps performance at a particular level. So most of the time it will make no difference. When its cold enou...

2 years ago
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RE: Controversial opinions - pure weather compensation, buffer tank, heat loss, oversized heat pumps

Can I first echo what @transparent says above. This stuff is on one level straightforward, but at the same time not easy until you have been studying...

2 years ago
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RE: Controversial opinions - pure weather compensation, buffer tank, heat loss, oversized heat pumps

I do agree entirely that there is an oversizing problem, that design for the midrange operation is important, and that this needs to be fixed. There...

2 years ago
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