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Mine loses about 0.6 degrees per hour so a bit less. Is your HW tank outside the house, e.g in the garage? That would make it lose a bit more than in...
@westkent I think you are suffering from the same problem described above; Melcloud over estimating consumed energy when the heating is off.
Am I misreading these graphs? It looks to me as if the overall COP is around 3 across the year, including the shoulder months. With HW being 40-50% ...
@tobydeh, - is it just the downstairs that is 180m2? From the plan it looks like the total is 360m2 or so. If so, your consumption and the ASHP si...
Looking at your numbers quickly I'd agree; about 50% oversized. These rads are enormous. The sizes you quote aren't quite standard but a 2m wide K3 ...
@Derek-m, if you look at the dip switch settings in 5.4 of the FTC6 manual, it says how to set the logic for the 3rd party thermostats. If these were...
@adam_colwell Have they ever worked? For 3rd party controllers to work with the Ecodan they need to be working and with good batteries, connected t...
@akius, the total energy usage in the MCS sheet is the amount of delivered energy your house needs for space heating and DHW. If @Tim441 is consum...
Hi and welcome to the forum. It's hard to equate test conditions performance to real life. Having said that things have moved on, and modern ASHP...
@Shep, having a booster isn't necessarily a problem as some ASHPs (e.g. some Daikin models) seem to come with one as standard. I would be more concer...
Not sure but somewhere there should be a design ambient temperature/flow temperature for the heat pump - something like 50 deg flow at -4 deg ambient....
Hi an welcome to the forum. I'm assuming you've had full heat loss calcs done and they support the spec of a 12kW ASHP. What's you outside temperatur...
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RE: Passiv Smart Thermostat - Help & Forum Support
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