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The rest is fair enough but not the bit in bold thanks. I don't want my tax money paying for someone's air conditioning unit that's never used for he...
IMO the idea you need to keep the ASHP running as long as possible at really low LWTs may not be the best approach. At 30 deg LWT and a delta T of 5,...
@jamespipe I went from storage heaters to ASHP. My energy costs are one third of what they were. My EPC still has storage heaters listed as the m...
@cathoderay, not all original but these are my thoughts on your conundrum. your ASHP runs 24/7; your oil CH didn't your house was colder with oil ...
There are some small scale experiments. Heating homes directly with H2, green or otherwise isn't currently viable. The infrastructure isn't suitable...
There are some small scale experiments. Heating homes directly with H2, green or otherwise isn't currently viable. The infrastructure isn't suitable...
@jamespipe I have never seen any such study but I would think the localised effect would be immeasurably small. If you think about it, all renewable...
Fantasy for now.
The FTC6 manual suggests 14-32 l/min as the acceptable range so 32 would be right at the upper end. My 14kW Ecodan is running at about 24l/min, also ...
@editor, There may be a lower cut off for flow temp built in. From what I've seen with Ecodans it's hard to get them to run at very low flows; your...
@sunandair I use the standard Ecodan MMSP package like this. I then grab the csv file Melcloud produces into Python as and when I like to produ...
@theallan, another thing to check is whether the heat meter is configured for glycol. A glycol mix has less heat energy than pure H20. My heat met...
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Was speaking to my builder this morning and he was sayi...
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Grant Aerona fine tuning advice needed
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RE: Who's your electricity provider and what's your tariff?
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RE: Heat Pump Sizing & Installation Costs
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RE: Setback savings - fact or fiction?
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RE: Grant ASHP not reaching target temperatures
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RE: Transforming a Derbyshire Property into an Energy-Efficient Haven
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RE: Replacing knackered oil boiler with ASHP - Perthshire
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RE: Battery storage to run Heat Pump.
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