Last seen: May 20, 2025
I was looking at electricity usage the other day and the heat pump dryer was on, that cycles also.
In the grand scheme 2 or 3 starts an hour is good. It's what it's designed to do. During the cycle it just maintaining floor temp. If you never let ...
What do you mean by that, how often on and off per hour?
Yes, but if you don't have zone valves etc, heat pump just ramps up and down temp as required to the single zone. I use the same input on mine to ramp...
But if heated by immersion does not comply with the grant rules as it states heating and DHW need to come from heat pump. Think they withdrawn the low...
Hi James, I would slightly disagree with this and maybe we are outliers due to our location but wind is a huge factor for us, which means I also agree...
My boiler had that control, unfortunately with thick screed UFH, the boiler spent the whole time completely out of sink with the house needs. Was pret...
still not fully convinced everyone needs a heat pump. Storage heaters are a sound technology, suited to a lot of property especially flats. A small fl...
Cycling is a normal activity of heat pumps and boilers. As long as it's not short cycling (1 to 2 minutes or less on off cycling) ideally it will cycl...
Our is similar, so you are on UFH? I found when I was doing batch heating a very low hysterisis worked wonders. I also do hybrid heating when really...
We have a summer house connected to the main house heating. The initial idea was to have it heated all the time, same as the house, but it soon became...
Best this I added to my system, you can really see what does and doesn't work. I have a full heat meter and electric meter installation.
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