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@ashp-bobba May I ask please, do you actually perform preventative maintenance as part of the service please. By that I mean checking bearings, lub...
@editor Solely for warranty. As toodles said, the “service” doesn’t represent any form of true preventative maintenance. The logical action would b...
@editor condensate drain worries me, Ive wondered why they don’t have a rodent mesh, or perhaps there is internally.
@downfield Only flip side is warranty, lots of circuitry however well potted, sitting outside in all weathers. Had my fair share of trying to “repa...
@johnnyb I think so. It’s a UPM4xL that takes its speed control from the Samsung control unit. I’ve never seen it vary during space heating. I wond...
I think you may have a good point, it’s a big fridge. When I looked at it, everything is sealed and there are no consumables. I estimated the most lik...
@johnnyb Might be worth checking that a pump change will help. All I know is that my variable speed pump always runs at the same flow rate whenever I’...
@jamespa previously it was so noisy, it was like having a diesel tractor in the garden, rattling and thumping and hissing. I’d even had 2 disputes ...
@toodles if anyone experiences the issue in the future the reference for the fix is below. There were no error or fault codes, that’s what completely ...
@jamespa @toodles Finally, after 6 months, my heat pump is now working correctly. The hard reset of the modbus has completely resolved the control sys...
@johnnyb Thanks. So when you say you have your flow temp set to 35 max. Does that mean you have physically set the upper limit in the heat pump contro...
@jamespa 525C, that would be nice. Reminds me of the questions in my Oxbridge entrance exam, which I flunked with flying colours, someone should write...
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