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@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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
I hope you put that in writing and wish you luck with getting a resolution.
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...
You don't need them, but the problem is that you MAY need them. No, it shouldn't be like that.
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...
"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...
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...
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...
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