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Over the last 24 hours, mine have ranged between 28 and 38 degrees while heating. If you set the flow to 50, I expect at least one radiator should be ...
I don't share your suspicion because I saw plenty of complaints in other energy-saving forums and local social network groups last week about ineffici...
@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...
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