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

A pair of similar tanks one white and one red are expansion tanks. You can tell because they have a filling nipple at the top and only one pipe leadi...

5 months ago
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RE: Setback savings - fact or fiction?

You are almost right and have appreciated the key point ie that energy lost must be replaced (simple minded, and incorrect, thinking says that if you ...

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

Based on the numbers I think its likely its oversized. Not a disaster but it means it will probably cycle on and off a lot. If does prove to be over...

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

That sounds high for UFH. Strongly recommend you follow the procedure I outlined upthread and report back. You should hopefully be looking at a flow...

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

Yes absolutely. Exactly, the manifold has the equivalent of a radiator LSV and a radiator TRV (the actuator) together. With a radiator you a...

5 months ago
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RE: What is the best strategy for operating a very oversized heat pump?

Oh definitely. Getting the WC curve optimised is a key part of the commissioning which, realistically, installers cant be expected to do because it n...

5 months ago
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RE: What is the best strategy for operating a very oversized heat pump?

Thats an interesting one - as a matter of fact which (is it the Ecodan twin compressor model?) Indeed, loads of 'models' but in fact only one...

5 months ago
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RE: What is the best strategy for operating a very oversized heat pump?

True, but the average householder isnt going to do this. Indeed so. Does it even need to happen though? Those who have responded want to 'tak...

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

You need to follow a process Turn all room/central thermostats up to maximum Set the heat pump to run 24x7 Ensure that the Ecodan is in weather ...

5 months ago
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RE: Setback savings - fact or fiction?

Can you explain this please, the heat pump manufacturers always specify COP according to LWT. The compressed gas must be hotter than the LWT otherwis...

5 months ago
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RE: Volumisers in Heat Pump Systems: Does Placement Matter?

There is absolutely nothing wrong with buffer tanks in principle. The problem lies with the execution which all too frequently, it seems, involves poo...

5 months ago
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RE: Replacing knackered oil boiler with ASHP - Perthshire

On the basis that 1l oil = 10kWh and 1cu m wood = 2500kWh, the total is between 25+10=35 and 40+10=50 MWh per annum. That's definitely in the same ge...

5 months ago
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