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@jamespetts Consideration might be given to the efficiency gained through ‘low and slow’ heating as this can sometimes reduce overall energy requireme...
@lucia Perhaps I might add a ‘me too’ to James’s views? .. and he says it so much more eloquently than I might! 😉 I regard myself as fortuna...
@jamespa Definitely the former! The Homely summary indicates approx. COP of ~4.6 - 4.8 so 50 kWh or so of heat is keeping us cosy each day. As to the ...
With my limited vision, I may be missing the finer details of your graphs but the ‘timings’ look very ‘mechanical’ as though despite your needs, the p...
@jamespa We have a floor area of 97 sq. metres and are fairly well insulated but… we keep our whole semi det. 4 bed at 22.5 with a slight setback from...
@lucia Martin Lewis (of Money Saving Expert fame) has made this very same point about the low waged and unemployed portion of the population and their...
@jamespetts I would dare say that at least 75% of heat pump owners would be extremely pleased to have so low a consumption and the comfort level you r...
@cathoderay Yes, it is a plotly plot and I suppose the 30 minute intervals are to reduce data load on their server or maybe it is also down to Daikin,...
@bontwoody My eyesight is not good enough to follow the pipework to those two valves so I cannot tell which from what however… another thing I cannot ...
Could it be that the valve has stuck open so that the higher temperature water intended for the DHW circuit is also flowing through the UFH manifold? ...
@jamespa Out of curiosity, I asked Homely for a graph of outside temperature and heat pump on/off times this morning but I see no particular consisten...
@cathoderay But surely, when the heat pump fan has been running for a few seconds, it should be reflecting the true OAT? I suppose the ambient tempera...
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