Last seen: May 14, 2025
For adjusting the overall system I'd leave everything open - you want to adjust things for when there's full demand on the system. Use TRVs to reduce ...
It depends a little on what the current OAT is. You're basically lowing the WC line to generate less heat, so you could lower either end, or both ends...
Hi, welcome to the forum! To answer your questions in order: "having WC on overrides the thermostat settings is this correct? I've changed the the...
Primary flow rate is good. Now it's time to sit back and stop thinking about deltaT, low loss headers, thermal mass, heating zones, ... have a break, ...
Has the flow rate now increased if you look at the regulator below the pipe where the mag one sits? Balancing the flows across the LLH is something ...
Isha killed my internet so out of loop a bit on this one, but has the auto bypass valve been checked? It should be set to almost never operate as your...
I think Grant have recognised how unfriendly the controller is, with bringing out (soon) there own 'smart' controller, but I'm not expecting this to b...
@crimson So far as I understand it, before the plumber started fixing things (i.e. when you had the blown DHW controller) most of the CH zones were wo...
Your conclusions (1) and (2) are probably valid, and common for most ASHPs it seems - the defrost cycles nobble performance, as although they only tak...
The standard flow regulator which comes with the Grant (and I think yours looks like one), you read from the bottom of the float, so 29l/m if I can se...
If you can get them to focus on the flow rate, which seems to be the main issue. Playing around with the HP parameters is really tweaking to help with...
As @allyfish has pointed out, that flow rate is an issue - the 'square-headed' screw-like thing below the gauge window on the regulator is what contro...
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