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Possibly not. As I understand it this mode, which many heat pumps have, caps the compressor speed which reduces the maximum output but not the minimu...
It will, but it's heating more than you need assuming you are happy with the current downstairs temp and unlikely to fix the basic problem ie that the...
Indeed. In this case I would personally leave it to the heat pump. However if you can align the cycling to cheap periods that's a wholly different s...
Yes, as can more capable heat pump controllers
... which is probably its min output. At 12C you would expect cycling even if the pump was right sized, it gets colder later this week so i suggest r...
That will be the water pump capacity not the heat pump capacity, which is dependent on the house loss. The water pump may be on longer than the heat...
That's disappointing. It's way oversized almost without any doubt. 6kW is probably nearer the mark, possibly less. I will re-read your description...
@iraknic Ok I was hoping 6 was 6kW not 6 tons (an American measure of capacity roughly equal to 3kW). I suspect it's well oversized. What do y...
I am not familiar with the Hitachi monitoring so someone else will need to answer this. If you can monitor power consumption it will be visible in th...
@transparent @sicky Just a couple of observations 1. Sadly I would say the standard of work is exactly what one expects, this is either the b...
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