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RE: Heat pumps and home insurance. Are you insured?

I've looked through all 4 documents they send me for 'boiler', 'heating', 'air', 'pump', and can't find any specific reference, apart from saying that...

2 years ago
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RE: Grant 10kW versus Samsung 12kW - sizing dilemma with ECO4 installation

@allyfish Not to de-rail this topic (so I'll probably post results - if any - on a new topic) but I've just started trialling a scheduled 2°C drop of ...

2 years ago
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RE: Grant 10kW versus Samsung 12kW - sizing dilemma with ECO4 installation

@tobyg Just to buck the trend, I'd go for the Grant. Now, I have a Grant 10kW and it's proved quite tricky to set-up and get what's needed out of it, ...

2 years ago
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RE: Defrost Cycles - How Common Are They?

@rupes Thanks for the info. I've seen a defrost temp of -3 and -4 trigger the cycle. It's definitely the 100W consumption figure which shows we're in ...

2 years ago
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RE: Defrost Cycles - How Common Are They?

@rupes This is very interesting. I'm trying to wire up my LLH heater atm, but it's a tricky cabling path for both power, and the control switch from t...

2 years ago
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RE: Grant 10kW versus Samsung 12kW - sizing dilemma with ECO4 installation

Just to clarify @allyfish comments to avoid confusion (I hope) - they were talking about the need for an automatic setback function at nighttime which...

2 years ago
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RE: Defrost Cycles - How Common Are They?

@rupes Here's my pattern for yesterday. Although I was in constant defrost cycles, I was hitting target quite often, but the house temp was a good 1C ...

2 years ago
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RE: Grant 13kW Aerona3 - issues getting zones to temp

@allyfish I think this slow handover between DHW and CH (and even this isn't the Grant way as per installation) is because LWT on the DHW cycle (say 6...

2 years ago
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RE: Grant 13kW Aerona3 - issues getting zones to temp

HW would be better run during the afternoon (say 3-4pm) rather than overnight, as it's when the LWT is highest so you want the warmest external air yo...

2 years ago
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RE: Grant Aerona3 10kw - Few questions

@allyfish Thanks for the info. For whatever reason, I didn't get the standard Grant HW cylinder with my install (it's a ukcylinders slim one) and they...

2 years ago
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RE: Grant Aerona3 10kw - Few questions

- that is the immersion heater element, so that's the right thing to do. There should now be nothing which is trying to add heat to the HW cylinder. ...

2 years ago
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RE: Grant Aerona3 10kw - Few questions

You've possibly had a pressure issue, which could be the hissing sound, or maybe there's been a slow leak on the secondary return valve that's now got...

2 years ago
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