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@wintergreen here's what I have - apologies if it's too small to read. I was left two sheets by the installers - with completely different COP figures...
My Daikin wall programmer has a button that allows you to switch on or off the space heating independently of hot water; both are separately programma...
@editor I watched the video - looks a great piece of kit. We have the same size PV array as you (6.1kWp) I think. Our average daily solar sent to grid...
Hi – I have a 16kW Daikin HT ASHP – system details below – which we’ve been running since August 2020. We have a combination of UFH and radiators. The...
Around 3000kWh for heating and DHW from January 1st to April 12th - I'm in central Italy and our January was a lot colder than normal - minimum temps ...
Thanks @iancalderbank that looks like a better solution than trying to retrofit some limiter to the mixing valves - and of course, our taps in the bat...
Hi @transparent yes, that all makes sense. Building regs are as far as I can see a recommendation here in Italy as the project manager in charge of th...
Hi @transparent take the point yes - this is the unit we have on the showers at our place: The technical information here states that the max tem...
Hi @saf1973 thanks for the update, very sensible. I've previously used schedule heating for DHW but since I turned off our space heating last week, th...
@derek-m yes good point. The total volume of water used is ca. 50l, but since we have the handle probably 80% towards max, does that mean roughly we a...
Hi @derek-m that all makes sense, thanks. The sensor is 77cm down inside the 155cm high tank, so if its seeing a 7C drop in temp from a single shower,...
Per "1) If my understanding is correct using only schedule will mean that your heat pump only performs DHW heating during the scheduled periods, so yo...
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