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JamesPa
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RE: Grant Aerona3 with Octopus Cosy tariff

This is simple. Heat pumps and boilers can only supply water at one flow temperature at any one time. You need a higher ft for the dhw than you nee...

7 months ago
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RE: Grant Aerona3 with Octopus Cosy tariff

It's actually quite a revelation to see how Vaillant and ideal have designed the UI to WC. I suspect this because they have 20 plus years of experien...

7 months ago
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RE: Grant Aerona3 with Octopus Cosy tariff

Is it cycling or defrost. More likely the latter at current overnight temperature

7 months ago
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RE: Grant Aerona3 with Octopus Cosy tariff

Sitck with it, if you get your WC curve down to the lowest possible consistent with heating the house you should have an efficient system and plenty o...

7 months ago
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RE: Is My Midea Heat Pump Inherently Defective?

Just to say you do need a firm tap (occasionally several), just opposite the inlet to the radiator. Hit it about as hard as you dare. Sometimes this...

7 months ago
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RE: How To Balance Radiators & the Role of the Lockshield Valve: A Homeowner's Guide

So deltaT across rad circuit = 37.9-24.4 = 13.5C. ~5C is what we are looking for. So Im expecting the return from rads to be more like 32C than 24...

7 months ago
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RE: Is My Midea Heat Pump Inherently Defective?

Yes. If the pin feels sprung then no problem. If it moves freely then the closing piece (not sure what it's called) may be stuck. A few sharp taps ...

7 months ago
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RE: Not a good January? My heat pump used 840 KWh of electricity

You adjust the end points of the sloped line.you presented earlier. This will be somewhere in the menu, probably the installer menu. I would reduce ...

7 months ago
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RE: Not a good January? My heat pump used 840 KWh of electricity

Yes thanks, good plot Yes initially, but then you turn down the weather compensation curve until the house is at just the right temperature, that...

7 months ago
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RE: Not a good January? My heat pump used 840 KWh of electricity

Situation normal then as @tim441 says you are almost certainly going to have to meddle if you want your system to work efficiently. T...

7 months ago
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RE: Not a good January? My heat pump used 840 KWh of electricity

Black thing looks like (probably) a low loss header combining the output of the two pumps. You will get complete mixing in that which could in princi...

7 months ago
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