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Given its a large tank either 1 or 2 should work, 1 marginally better perhaps. The flow vs return thing was debated here at length a year ago. The ...
Are both good suggestions. Autoadapt works only within limits, if the comp curve is way out it won't correct it. The key to efficient oper...
I don't know if flow setters are unidirectional but can imagine a design that is not unidirectional so would not make assumptions. Do the pipe trace ...
OK Ducted warm/cold air is unusual in the UK. We had it in a house I lived in in the 80s, it was dreadful. Perhaps others had a similar experience...
It looks from your temperatures as if flow to rads is from top, return from rads at bottom. Flow from heat pump at bottom, return to heat pump at top...
Not here I'm pleased to say (as in I haven't seen any significant examples here other than genuine misunderstandings related to heat pumps.) More wi...
@bobflux may have solved this with his observation that the secondary pump is the wrong way round. Alternatively it depends what the 'flow setter' ac...
If those temperatures are correct the buffer is plumbed wrongly, with the input from the heat pump at the bottom and the output to the rads at the top...
@editor fwiw I admit to straying into politics occasionally for exactly the reasons you state. I try, not always successfully, to speak about the ...
Why do you specifically want ducted? Is the ductwork already in place?
Which may well be the case but... You have ultimately to choose from what is on offer, not what you may personally think is perfect. That will inev...
Completely agree with that although not sure it will change much. I spent about 45 mins discussing policies with the local representatives of a party...
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