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No idea how big a heat pump you need, but this would easy to do, or even cascade 2x.
We out this afternoon and drawing between 320 and 390W. Basically MVHR, dMEV fan in summer house, sewage plant fan, ASHP standby/pump consumption and...
Warmer in Scotland today. Curve looks better. Just a matter of trial and error.
Why are you making something easy so difficult, put the ashp outside. It a get a dedicated indoor unit, where you put 2 x 150mm holes through the wa...
I would say start adjusting WC at the cold end, but your warm end looks to hot, you need to adjust that to 20 OAT and 25 deg flow temp. Leave the cold...
You need a lot of energy to heat what I assume is a screed floor. A slug of water will have a little or no effect by the time the heat as dissipated v...
So a few additional questions. How do you operate the heating system, do you leave on all the time? Do you have on timed program for heating the h...
This year it been rubbish weather in Scotland, think we missed out on summer, it was too wet to get warm. Last year it was October before the heat wen...
We went from cooling mode to heat mode the next day, let the heat run for the last week, but I am in NE Scotland and the temps started to drop quite q...
The other alternative for a cylinder is the heat geek mini store cylinder
I had it and it never seemed to do what it should, I deleted about a year ago and then tried to add it again a couple of months go, just couldn't get ...
Think of the floor as a very big radiator. It's cooler because it has a bigger surface area. Output is a combination of dT between room and floor su...
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