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mjr
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Joined: Feb 23, 2022
Last seen: Mar 18, 2024
Topics: 2 / Replies: 299
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RE: Rate the quality of your heat pump design and installation

@jswhite actually, yours sounds like one of the few uses where a twin-pump solution might have made sense. A single pump causes you problems in that s...

3 years ago
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RE: MCS Certified installer problem

They're nearly all registered, with their serial number, half the control gear is inside the building and, if you have the melcloud module in the cont...

3 years ago
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RE: Vaillant 10kw ASHP installation. Installer issues

I think it depends where your pump is. Our condensation drainpipe froze over in the cold and the pump slowly dribbled water across the paving from und...

3 years ago
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RE: Rate the quality of your heat pump design and installation

There's nothing about being a leaky old house that makes ASHP necessarily impossible: it just costs more both to buy (bigger unit needed) and operate ...

3 years ago
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RE: AI Heating Controls & IoT

Ah, but it also "reads" the return water temperature is lower (say, RWT = LWT - 8), because the house has taken more heat out of it because the house ...

3 years ago
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RE: ASHP at cold temperatures

I hope you put that in writing and wish you luck with getting a resolution.

3 years ago
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RE: Mitsubishi Ecodan not good enough ?

Yeah, that's still going to mean that the room temperature sensor on it won't reflect the house temperature, so using "auto adaptation" and "room" mod...

3 years ago
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RE: Mitsubishi Ecodan not good enough ?

You don't need them, but the problem is that you MAY need them. No, it shouldn't be like that.

3 years ago
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RE: Mitsubishi Ecodan not good enough ?

Cool. Who says it must? The rubbish way the pipe passes through the wall is one of my outstanding complaints with my installer too! I bodged some inst...

3 years ago
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RE: Mitsubishi Ecodan & Raspberry Pi automations

"Auto adaptation" is used when both the FTC6/5/maybe-others main controller is set to a room temperature and DIP switch SW1-8 in the big control box i...

3 years ago
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RE: Cosy Octopus - New ASHP tarrif

Having looked into the source of it a while ago, and done experiments with operation time, that "received wisdom" seems to be a distortion of the advi...

3 years ago
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RE: Ecodan with UFH flow temperature consuming 130kWh per day

It can be done from both, but it's far easier from the controller: put the system into flow mode (menu: Heating: left button until pic of a water drop...

3 years ago
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