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RE: No spare parts for Vaillant Ground Source Heat Pumps in the UK & major corrosion issue is another problem for GSHP

An Electrician will be able to fit a meter to your gshp system, and I think it's the first step in understanding if it is functioning well. I underst...

3 years ago
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Ground Source Heat Pump (GSHPs)
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RE: Heat pump delta T too low - 2c

@william1066 I think that you're right - dropping the LWT always improves the COP of the compressor. The DeltaT is pretty much irrelevent to the c...

3 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Had to replace my GSHP due to new regulations with an ASHP

Groundsource is usually a lot simpler - a lot of them are just simple on/off things just like an old fridge, controlled by relays and thermostats. Th...

3 years ago
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Ground Source Heat Pump (GSHPs)
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RE: A Beginner's Guide to ASHP Monitoring

@murchison2003 Our heatpump is tiny. It takes 1800W from the ground outside, using 600W of electricity. So that 1800W from outside over 200m (30m...

3 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: A Beginner's Guide to ASHP Monitoring

@derek-m It is gshp yes! 230m of pipe buried in the back garden, 800mm down. Had it for just over a year, all good so far:-)

3 years ago
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RE: A Beginner's Guide to ASHP Monitoring

@derek-m Cheers, I’ve obsessively been insulating for years, I need a new hobby! @kev-m It’s actually LWT-Tgroundwater. Not that it makes a h...

3 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: A Beginner's Guide to ASHP Monitoring

Our heatpump has been going for 13 months, used 1580kWh of electricity, and produced 5803kWh of heat. Most of that is heating the (4 bed 1963 build) ...

3 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: A Beginner's Guide to ASHP Monitoring

I started by cable tying temp sensors to pipes, and wrapping with loads of insulation, re-wrapping, getting a different answer... There is no doubt i...

3 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: A Beginner's Guide to ASHP Monitoring

In my experience, the temperature is much harder to monitor accurately enough than the flow rate. We need two sensors well connected to the flow and ...

3 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: A Beginner's Guide to ASHP Monitoring

@iancalderbank The flowmeters I use are cheapie £8 things that look like this from Amazon, which claims 2%. I have two, one on the house circuit m...

3 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: A Beginner's Guide to ASHP Monitoring

@derek-m The sensors are tsic506f, and they connect up to an mbed(old micro type I’m used to) that I programmed with a free Arm account. There’s a...

3 years ago
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RE: A Beginner's Guide to ASHP Monitoring

I used a couple of 0.1C accurate temperature sensors for flow and return - they’re pushed into thin copper tubes which are thoroughly soldered to the ...

3 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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