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Think you have missed the point, why would you want to go above 50 in any likely outside temperature. Your design temp is the 99.6% likely temp. Not s...
In addition to my reply on Buildhub. Have you considered dumping all the third party rubbish and then you have no need for the FTC2BR. I doubt you n...
Interesting fact from 2003 - 2 years before condenser boilers became mandatory. Defra; the heating industry; the Energy Efficiency Partnership for H...
No that is 2.2 m³/h, so 2200L/60 mins, is 36.66L/min. So the head flow curve is just about identical on speed 5 and max flow on the secondary pump. ...
We have had rubbish weather all "summer" our heating went on a month or so earlier than usual. Plus was used for cooling during the summer when need...
The big companies just want to do the bear minimum, for max profits, then point you at a tariff, to keep cost manageable, and that may disappear in a ...
Good indication your flow temps are way to high. Looks like you may have started balancing at the wrong end of the system. Maybe caused a preferenc...
Comparing your heat pump, circulation pump and the secondary pump curves they are very similar. So assuming the heat pump isn't 10s of metres away the...
I have zero issue with a heat pump being oversized. Actual house loss at -3 is 3kW and our installed heat pump at -3 is 6kW. So able to deliver double...
First to make the buffer to a volumiser, you need to compare the secondary to pump capacity and head curve. This should be easy enough for the plumber...
@david999 £2 per day just for DHW? If so, you really need to sort out your settings. It should be well under half that amount on a standard tariff. On...
So you have a very different system. You have a thermal store, so the heat pump only produces a single flow temperature. Based on being 2009 install y...
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