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MartinRobinson
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Joined: Feb 5, 2026
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Topics: 1 / Replies: 11
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RE: Need help maximising COP of 3.5kW Valiant Aerotherm heat pump

That is, I beleive, the biggest pile of Bullsxxt ever (or at least, not the whole story). I have an Arotherm+ and have no legionella cycle configur...

18 hours ago
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RE: Honeywell Home control and Trianco ActiveAir 5 kW ASHP

I should add perhaps that will some jiggery-pokery with Python on a Rasberry Pi, and Open Energy Monitor, my EvoHome room temperatures, are all being...

4 days ago
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RE: Honeywell Home control and Trianco ActiveAir 5 kW ASHP

@giganto I feel compelled to add my thoughts on this, if I may chip in? I too recently had an ASHP (Vaillant) installed, replacing a gas boiler. We ...

4 days ago
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RE: Help needed to adjust weather compensation on Vaillant air source heat pump

I am in the fortunate position of having independent monitoring (using OEM) of the heat pump and all temperatures. One thing I noticed quite early o...

7 days ago
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RE: Help needed to adjust weather compensation on Vaillant air source heat pump

You need to remember that the WC setting controls the target flow temp, and not the actual flow temp. The two will only be the same after a period of ...

7 days ago
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RE: Help needed to adjust weather compensation on Vaillant air source heat pump

If its only consuming 22W of electricity, then the compressor is not running at all, just the water pump. This is not 'idling', its basically off. &...

7 days ago
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RE: Help needed to adjust weather compensation on Vaillant air source heat pump

That would be 3.5kW of electrical power in. The power output into the house will at least double that - often more. A 7kW Arotherm+ will never consume...

7 days ago
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RE: My 1950s Semi-Detached Heat Geek β€œZeroDisrupt” Air Source Heat Pump Retrofit with Vaillant Arotherm

I should add that our survey came up with a heat loss of 6.6kW - which is pessimistic. On our coldest day so far (6th Jan) it was looking like this:...

1 week ago
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RE: My 1950s Semi-Detached Heat Geek β€œZeroDisrupt” Air Source Heat Pump Retrofit with Vaillant Arotherm

'Zero Disrupt' is a bit over-optimistic I suppose, but we did keep the old cylinder and rads, so any Disruption was limited to the airing cupboard, at...

1 week ago
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RE: My 1950s Semi-Detached Heat Geek β€œZero-Disrupt” ASHP Retrofit with Vaillant Arotherm

@Admin Why is my link to my OEM heatpump monitor page not working? The URL contains .../dashboard?id=902 which should it to my specific system and not...

1 week ago
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