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RE: Heat Pump Truth or Myth#1 - Keeping it running 24/7 uses less energy

Have they said why not? I was going to switch to them and get one. I won't be doing this now since because I have an E7 meter I would have to go ont...

2 years ago
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RE: Heat Pump Truth or Myth#1 - Keeping it running 24/7 uses less energy

Yes of course it is. But you will see lots of advice that warns against turning a heat pump off, ever, because it will take so much energy to start it...

2 years ago
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RE: Warmflow ASHP costing a fortune to run and ignored by installer

@myanthony, about 70kWh per day is easily possible with an old house. As @oswiu asks, do you have any heat loss calculations? The ASHP you have is a...

2 years ago
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RE: Heat Pump Truth or Myth#1 - Keeping it running 24/7 uses less energy

This is very similar to what I do. I have a coal stove (sorry!) and no upstairs but the same idea. I reckon it saves 20% or so.

2 years ago
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RE: Heat Pump Truth or Myth#1 - Keeping it running 24/7 uses less energy

@mjr that Octopus tariff would work well for me I think. I don't have a smart meter but I'm going to try and switch and have Octopus install one.

2 years ago
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RE: Warmflow ASHP costing a fortune to run and ignored by installer

Hi @myanthony and welcome and sorry to hear of your woes. A few details about your house and system would help. House size and type, ASHP model, radi...

2 years ago
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RE: Heat Pump Truth or Myth#1 - Keeping it running 24/7 uses less energy

@mjr is this the Octopus tariff you mean?

2 years ago
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RE: Heat Pump Truth or Myth#1 - Keeping it running 24/7 uses less energy

I agree; I did this slightly tongue in cheek but there are some hard and fast 'golden rules' quoted by so called experts that are definitely not the b...

2 years ago
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RE: ASHP - Want to run 24/7 but continually calling for heat

In this really cold weather, your ASHP will probably be defrosting every hour or so. When it does, the flow temp will drop quite a bit. You might fi...

2 years ago
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RE: Going away for a few days - what to do?

My holiday mode is set to the minimum, 20 deg. I go away a lot and I use that. If you have freeze stat enabled you could not bother with holiday mode...

2 years ago
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2 years ago
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RE: Heat pump using loads of power overnight

I'm not sure your Ecodan could consume 40kWh in 4 hours on its own. That's a run rate of 10kW. The most power I've ever seen my 14kW Ecodan using is...

2 years ago
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