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RE: Buffers, hot water and cooling

Hmm, I need to have a crawl around and check the radiator piping but I think it's all one 22mm backbone with 15mm drops - a couple of drops serve two ...

1 day ago
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RE: Buffers, hot water and cooling

Some fair points... I've been doing some investigations. The system is balanced, in the sense of delivering heat evenly without cold spots. However ...

4 days ago
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RE: Buffers, hot water and cooling

Good spot, I'd missed that 'short circuit' path. Here's another go: If no V1/V2/V3 are powered (all NC position) then we're in classic buffer hea...

5 days ago
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RE: Buffers, hot water and cooling

Agreed, you get loss of optimality - but it continues to work, rather than just breaking. That's what I'm trying to do: design and insulate it ri...

6 days ago
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RE: Buffers, hot water and cooling

I wondered about that. Wouldn't that potentially cause issues with flow rates? I have no idea what the flow through the radiators is, and I thought th...

6 days ago
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RE: Homely launched for Grant Aerona ASHP control

I haven't bought the Aerona Smart Controller (£700!) but my guess what they mean with 'retrofit' is basically undoing all the weird external switching...

6 days ago
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RE: Antifreeze top up for my heat pump - is this a rip off?

For the record, Grant supply ethylene glycol for their heat pumps: Grant Inhib03 Heat Pump Fluid (Heat Pump Concentrate) - MSDS: So if it's a Gran...

6 days ago
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Thermostats, Volumisers, Buffer Tanks, TRVs, Pumps, Piping, Valves, Radiators & Controls
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Buffers, hot water and cooling
6 days ago
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RE: Which micro inverter is more suitable?

There shouldn’t be a problem using an inverter rated higher than your panel output. Maybe there will be a small efficiency loss at the low end (grey d...

2 years ago
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Solar Thermal & Power Diverters
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RE: Noisy Grant Aerona 3 13kW ASHP question

One thing I fixed was my dozy installer had screwed the copper pipes from the ASHP to the loft joists with regular brass pipe clips. (Flexi tails outs...

2 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Noisy Grant Aerona 3 13kW ASHP question

@jimbo69 As a follow up to my post above, I solved the other cause of my noise. The installer fitted my system with a Honeywell Lyriq on-off controlle...

2 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: DHW with Grant Aerona link to cylinder temperature

It is possible to install a thermistor (10K, beta=3435, 1%) in the DHW cylinder so the tank temperature can be read by the ASHP. However this doesn'...

2 years ago
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Domestic Hot Water & Cylinders
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