Last seen: May 20, 2025
After doing almost every configuration of hardware and control, my happy spot was to strip back to Uber simple. My heat pump is twice the size it need...
That is really down to system volume. Plus the ability to get the heat out of the system. So radiator surface area. Low design flow temperature driv...
Why not use the original manufacturer controller (Chofu) which is hidden away in a cupboard can't it do everything you need. Use as Chofu intended all...
Aren't you chasing too many quotes? Have you attempted your own heat loss calculation, to double check your quotes? EPC data can be sh!te in sh!te...
Mine has been doing a CoP of -3.18, yes negative, combination of cooling, DHW heating. Assume you are just doing DHW? The data the heat pump colle...
Do you have heat meter and electric meter that reads all input electric to the heat pump system only - if not it could be a very vague SCoP.
Are you sure about that. I have done almost every configuration of heating possible including what you describe,it isn't the cheapest or most comforta...
That's scary. I would be looking at insulation and airtight measures first, to halves that heat loss. Before I started to worry about buffers or not e...
Braver person than me. No way I would go down that route.
So is that with external air supply?
I moved from them a year or so ago, my monthly direct debit seemed to increase most months. It got the point even through the whole winter I stayed in...
The other thing I forget to mention, just design out the buffer, save on the cost of a 200L+ buffer, which isn't cheap, plus the additional pump, vari...
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