Last seen: May 25, 2025
Think Cosy tariff is a name that is very misleading, it should be called battery tariff. Heat pump run best on a low and slow setting. Run on weather ...
Or just accept sometimes you will use higher rate electric. You should still come out way cheaper than standard rate electric.
Yes. The ideal is you have flow temps just warm enough to keep the house at an even temp, via a compensation curve. A set back sounds good, but to get...
I would say it's better to just leave it running. Open all the thermostats to max settings, get your weather compensation curve fine tuned to get a n...
Couldn't agree more, but doesn't tell the whole story, so you have to use all information not just CoP. Two images over a 6.5 hr period so DHW d...
Not a fan of the league tables as you are comparing apples with oranges. Our heating needs are very different from a house down the road, let alone ...
Your water looks to in a similar place to mine, after I treated it. Certainly VDI mandate not to use chemicals. Think the trouble with chemicals is wh...
Finding small changes have a decent impact on run time and overall efficiency of the system as a whole. Just a matter of finding something close to th...
Little confused. ECO4 - It primarily targets low-income and vulnerable households, people on benefits, but you have disposable income to justify £7-...
Got the cycles to about 15 min on and 30 to 40 mins off. But although giving a decent CoP the energy used was high, because I believe the quality of h...
Most mixers uses a balanced flow i.e. the flow pressure from hot and cold is the same. This is how it is normally achieved via the combined valve at t...
The App gives you the CoP data, you can see instantaneously CoP, it uses a CT clamp on the 3 port valve to detect when it's seeing DHW heating and it ...
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