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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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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).
Except that water is a conductor. Galvanic corrosion is a well known process problem with steel narrowboats, with the conductor being the water, s...
Yes it can be a problem. When we put our solar panels on a flat roof one very serious consideration was access to clean the windows! The window cle...
@stevehsp Can I suggest you read the introduction to ASHPs here as it will help understand the technology. In terms of quote time choices don...
Possibly you could have movable barriers available. The principal risk I think is forgetting you are on a flat roof, stepping back and... barriers p...
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