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RE: What a Bad Heat Pump Installation Looks Like

That's pretty impressively incompetent. In our development, we were given an 'energy efficient' heating and hot water system that was the following:...

9 hours ago
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RE: Do Heat Pumps need to start up at Full Power?

@toodles That certainly doesn't look optimal, does it? It also looks worse than our unit. Our unit does have an initial spike, but seldom to more than...

2 weeks ago
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RE: Do Heat Pumps need to start up at Full Power?

I have noticed a similar behaviour in our Bosch unit. I don't know if it's a hardware-defined rule, or if it's a consequence of the controller on the ...

2 weeks ago
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RE: Bosch CS5800i 5kW - Experience So Far

@ectoplasmosis Buderus is a subsidiary of the Bosch Group, so I assume the different badges are just meant to capitalise on brand recognition in diffe...

3 weeks ago
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RE: Confused by Flow Rates

I see what you're saying, and I perhaps attributed a bit too much agency to the process of 'finding' the equilibrium point, but I think the gist of my...

3 weeks ago
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RE: Confused by Flow Rates

I'm no heating engineer, but I feel like there was something missing in the discussion. Flow Rate, dT, Heat Pump Power Output, and Emitter Output are ...

3 weeks ago
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RE: Bosch CS5800i 5kW - Experience So Far

I'm not all that worried about the talking to myself thing, but I know some forums frown on bumping your own posts repeatedly. In this case, though, I...

3 weeks ago
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RE: Bosch CS5800i 5kW - Experience So Far

At the risk of looking like I'm talking to myself, I wanted to record some of my more recent findings regarding this unit. There's not much easily fou...

3 weeks ago
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RE: Heat Loss v Outside Air Temperature

I did something similar when I was trying to get to grips with our old Frankensystem. I wasn't able to model it based on the actual heat delivered, ho...

3 weeks ago
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RE: My DIY Heat Pump installation

It's really interesting to see just how far people are willing to go by themselves, and I can certainly see why, considering the cost of the install. ...

4 weeks ago
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RE: British Gas Heat Pump Installation Complaint

While it's obviously extremely poor form from British Gas, you probably don't need to worry all that much about Legionella if you are regularly heatin...

1 month ago
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RE: How good is the app support for your heat pump?

On the subject of ESPHome, I've set up an EMS ESP box which is plugged into the EMS Bus on our indoor unit and it gets me so much data. I also have th...

1 month ago
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