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Agree. Fortunately UVC installations (which almost always are included with an ASHP) include a pressure reducing/balancing valve to supply cold water...
@heatgeek Firstly thank you for all this discussion as a result of which i have (I think) understood the way heat pumps operate better than ever be...
@adamk I am sorry to hear about your initial troubles. Can just a) support what @mars says and b) add that, if you get a good installation, which w...
I checked mine and it came back on. Took about 10s of 'loading' then doing it's job. Its not the first time I've done this and it never occurred to ...
I have a real problem with that as its effectively retrospective planning legislation. What was legal as regards building has to remain legal, otherw...
Because they don't know your room temperature and it's only (average) DT that matters Not strictly I think. It's 20 plus half the DT between flo...
Fair enough and very believable. I was responding to a comment which seemed to be suggesting that their use should be somehow restricted by regulatio...
Not so sure about that. Points 3-4 are on a constant (refrigerant) temperature line, which you can see because refrigerant temperature is on the diag...
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...
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...
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 ...
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