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RE: Anyone able to provide some feedback before I make my finale decision? Samsung vs Baxi vs Vaillant

Id go for a definite maybe. The question was about balancing. If you adjust the flow overall down on a system where the radiators are balanced then a...

4 months ago
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RE: Noise problems with newly installed Samsung 8kW ASHP

The Telegraph teasers are in one sense baffling and in another sense easy to understand. Most people only look at the teasers and of course they have...

4 months ago
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RE: Anyone able to provide some feedback before I make my finale decision? Samsung vs Baxi vs Vaillant

I honestly dont know. Mitsubishi seem to have a fairly similar modulation ratio, but those pumps are, I think, also constant flow (like Vaillant the ...

4 months ago
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RE: Frequent power outages in the Southeast – A sign of things to come?

Really - thats terrible. If it cant be changed in the UI its a very good argument not to buy a Samsung Gen 6 heat pump!

4 months ago
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RE: Newbie: utterly confused with my Mitsubishi Zubadan air source heat pump running on 55C set flow temperature

Sensible. After you have done that perhaps consider what is triggering reheat. It looks like its DHW tank temperature alone not a timer plus DHW t...

4 months ago
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RE: Noise problems with newly installed Samsung 8kW ASHP

Unfortunately the UK is a small market, we are essentially reliant on the EU (where of course we no longer have a seat) to implement the manufacturing...

4 months ago
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RE: Newbie: utterly confused with my Mitsubishi Zubadan air source heat pump running on 55C set flow temperature

It looks like Eco mode may have tamed the DHW curve a bit (see below), but a COP of .87 is less than 1 and you would be better off heating on the imme...

4 months ago
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RE: Is it KISS or constant – weather compensation vs. set flow temperature?

Indeed. Its weird at first but you get used to it and actually it is more comfortable because the temperature gradients are less. There is a school...

4 months ago
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RE: Anyone able to provide some feedback before I make my finale decision? Samsung vs Baxi vs Vaillant

So I have been thinking about this and trying to rationalise it with three other things namely (a) the Carnot equation which means that COP reduces ...

4 months ago
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RE: Noise problems with newly installed Samsung 8kW ASHP

This sounds like a problem that might be fixed, or certainly improved, with a bit of optimisation of the set up if you are prepared to provide some mo...

4 months ago
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RE: help with new bathroom and towel radiator

Yes it is. Steel narrowboats have zinc anodes for the same reason, but the steel still rusts, just less slowly. I have not personally heard of...

4 months ago
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Thermostats, Volumisers, Buffer Tanks, TRVs, Pumps, Piping, Valves, Radiators & Controls
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RE: New Heat Pump - mixer shower pressure

He may well be right. I have 9 bar which, on one occasion, burst open a steel radiator (with a bit of help from my stupidity).

4 months ago
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