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Mine followed a similar general pattern, but the defrosts (I assume the dips are defrosts) were more like once per hour. The snow day was both very w...
That's really good and simple. Obviously a gross generalisation but inevitably so if its going to be simple! I might well use this when talking to p...
That's a pity, the most expensive part of a GSHP is, SOFAIK, the underground bit by some margin, which you already have! Unfortunately we live in a ...
10kW is based on the design FT of 45. Most of the upstairs emitters are rather 'oversized' (for FT45) because I upgraded them before I realised quite...
Thats a fair observation, although some of the 'cheaper' brands (eg Samsung) with very basic controllers seem to have caught up in price certainly wit...
No, (if society survives that long which, given out bent for self destruction must be questionable). Its my personal conviction that ToU tariffs wi...
@technogeek The majority of the population probably do have condensing boilers but, sadly, the majority are set up not to condense (flow temperatur...
I agree that just because its decades old is not a good reason, but the point is that it is decades old and has been proven to work. Its also not j...
Thanks for these, you make some good points (at least in my opinion), here are some comments from me Im not sure they are a waste of time becaus...
Interesting. I currently run in 'low noise' mode at night and I find that mine overshoots in both 'normal' cycling and defrost but not when 'low no...
I think we commented on this briefly earlier and I agree. I also think it might be more or less inherent with our climate and the 3:1 (or in realit...
This is an interesting one which had faintly crossed my mind. Does any heat pump do this. I have heard that there are some which have an auxiliary...
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