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@toodles Don’t get me started on car headlight bulbs!
@old_scientist That makes sense then, thanks, I’ve learnt something new. So it is the definitive OAT measurement, it’s incidental that it happens t...
@bontwoody I’m at my math limit vs the data that is provided by Samsung, I can find max values from the heat tables but not min. But I’ve watched the ...
@bontwoody Tell me about it! it’s the 16kW gen6 1P R32 Samsung mono, 50L volumiser on return, upm4xl pump, the heatable floor space is about 240...
@bontwoody Thanks for working through it, although I still don’t know why the heat pump is idle 50% I intentionally paid £100 of it by card. It’s ...
@bontwoody yes, the design temp is 18. I just need to get them to fess up to what the surveyor has already admitted and remedy. There’s about 8 rads t...
@bontwoody Me too, I formally questioned the decision 3 separate occasions prior to the install. Their answer was that the heat loss calculations indi...
@bontwoody Here’s one example where it runs 4 C below the reference temperature (the homely node is in the lounge underneath at design temp 21C). Y...
@bontwoody I have been. I forced a repeat heat loss survey. The surveyor when he was here told me they had made an error in the rooms that are cold, u...
@bontwoody OK. Just thought it looked different to others I’d seen, it was a straw to clutch at at. I used to have a heat pump decades ago on mainland...
@old_scientist Thanks. How can it possibly detect frost if it’s not touching the coil please? It’s a good 5cm away from the fins. The only way I ...
@bontwoody It’s been converted from 3 zone GCH to single open loop. All TRVs are fully open (on 5). I’ve bled it multiple times, there’s about 36l/min...
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