Last seen: Aug 25, 2025
I have recently been pondering, while trying to help another participant in the forum, why some heat pumps bother to modulate the water pump to mainta...
As you say should be straightforward, good luck with the work!
I forgot you had a LLH and secondary pump. Is the service technician who visited proposing to remove it or leave it and add a buffer tank/volumiser i...
Yes, just blank off the unused ports. As you have fancoils I would put the volumiser in the flow, not the return, it might just soften the experienc...
No problem if you want to ask more questions but without a doubt leaving these things from time to time is a good idea. only by doing so do you get t...
Why does it matter if the flow changes a bit, so long as its sufficient to carry the required energy? Mine certainly changes from time to time. No n...
Not really, and thinking of them this way can mislead. Its also misleading to think of the heat pump sending a fixed amount of heat. It sends hot wa...
That's actually two priorities, lwt and flow temperature are the same thing. If the radiators demand more heat, the only way it can maintain ft i...
Ebay? Or has the market been saturated as a result of ECO4?
@barrovian1963 yes. Not ideal but not disastrous either. There are tricks to increase the period/reduce the frequency eg increase flow temp hysteris...
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