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@iantelescope The closest I know of of an external continous non switched thermostat is one that supports the OpenTherm protocol which the H...
@iantelescope Hmm it does not fill me with confidence when a Samsung Engineer does not know his own product.Before I answer your questions, I am going...
@jamespa I am not disagreeing with what you are saying and in an ideal world, what you have said would be the preferred solution. However the practi...
@iantelescope Sounds like you have a very similar system to mine. I too have a Honeywell Home thermostat connected to a Samsung 12Kw HT Quiet heat pum...
@jamespa sadly I have come across many a person like this and its frustrating. The same said people are also the ones who complain about the cost of ...
Interesting article. I fear though this issue is not just an Octopus one. I was having a chat with a friend of mine at my local pub and we happened t...
@editor ours occasionally comes on in the morning if its been a cold night, 6 - 7C recently. The sun warms the house sufficiently during the day which...
@lechillou maybe I am misunderstanding, I thought the thread was referring to a designed in cutoff of 18C that cannot be adjusted. The field setting y...
@graeme I was watching the HeatGeeks YouTube video yesterday regarding heat pumps and microbore pipes for my Father-in-Law's potential project. Well w...
Hi Mars, I am running a Samsung 12Kw High Temperature Quiet heat pump in a 5 bedroom house which has a heat loss calculation of 10Kw at ambient -2C....
The Samsung controller does not have an automatic cutoff and I have set mine to 16C. The heating is still on and I just leave it to do its thing and l...
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