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Wandering around the internet I find there are ice making machines with R290 that are allowed to be inside buildings albeit with only 150 gm of charge...
@jamespa I notice they talk of untrapped drain or cellar entry. I'm pretty sure my rainwater drains connect to the main sewer so surely they must have...
@judith Interesting. Not all my windows on the ground floor open but they look like they could, I forget the term, frame within frame?. The non open...
@jamespa From the suppliers I understand this regulation may change due to the small R290 charge. However I also have a drain close by! Frankly I wou...
@ivanopinion Looking at my Daughters vast Eco Forest 20 Kwh machine it can modulate down to 4 Kwh according to the plate. oops misread 4.2 for 2!.
@toodles Thanks for the explanation I get it now as I had not realised the temp needed to charge it.
@toodles May I ask about the Thermino? I understand that it uses phase change of the chemical but does this occur all at once? Does it sit there charg...
@editor These are the computer weather models I can choose from in Predict Wind, my sailing weather app. They can be startlingly different so I loo...
@cathoderay Thanks for the informative reply to my flippant remark. I have been following the forum for a while now and although most goes over my hea...
@cathoderay Are you dissing the Shipping Forecast ? It is only for sailors, surely nobody else understands it anyway. 🤣 .
I am determined to do this, firstly as my combi is 10 years old and is becoming expensive. A less noble reason is my daughter got an ASHP last year an...
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