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So the red bars are 'DHW' and the yellow bars 'heating', corresponding to the colours at the bottom. This shows 1kWh for 'DHW' per day and perhaps 0....
Thats really helpful real world experience. By 'well designed' do you mean the same 'well designed' that gives good performance, plus filter(s) or ...
Have you tried cutting the grid feed to see what actually happens? Im still confused as to how it can island and be compliant with the regs, which is...
Critics and naysayers will be negative whatever the government says or does. Its both tiring and depressing. For many of them this is just part of t...
What a surprise! If there is an opportunity to defraud another human, someone will exploit it!
Unfortunately its a function of the physics. Max heat pump output naturally changes with OAT and FT, that is unavoidable. Some manufacturers, most n...
In a word yes, based on what you have told us. You wont find many heat pumps with an output less than 5kW, and unless your house is very badly built...
In principle you are almost certainly right, but in practice its going to need a lot of measurement and interpretation unless its a slam-dunk case whi...
Strange, perhaps it doesnt use modbus which the third parties tend to focus on initially and, unlike Vaillant (which also doesnt use modbus) is perhap...
I'm jolly glad I don't have to make that decision which, either way, has been made politically toxic! It may be getting easier but if uk gov were to ...
Yes for sure, but large radiators dont change the mass flow calculations and thus the viability or not of the microbore.
To the first point I agree. I guess that their thinking was, we have to demonstrate a price fall in April, but we cant actually afford it long term s...
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