Last seen: Sep 14, 2025
Like any other domestic 'frost-stat', the BUH temperature system is there to protect your pipes from freezing. It has no concept of whether 'heat is...
I don't expect they'll use more than 1 temp sensor on the outside unit. Look at your graph.There are three areas of interest The red sector is c...
Well I'm guessing that the temp sensor is positioned where it has access to the surrounding air, but isn't within the air-stream which gets drawn thro...
This joke's on me. It's often the case that I use a 3D printer to create a few components needed for an 'energy project'. These can sometimes take...
The actual outside temperature might not be below freezing...... but the heat-pump controller thinks it is.That's what triggers the BUH. Why not jus...
Disabling a feature could just be masking a poor solder joint in a connection to a sensor! Wouldn't it be better to narrow down the search first bef...
Whatever we're looking for is an intermittent fault.It occurs, and then goes away. If you look at the display a few hours later, everything might ap...
It doesn't matter what the manual states about the BUH operating only rarely.That's just declaring what it's meant to do.But we're looking at a fault ...
Do you have any record of the DHW tank temperature during these night-time antics? 240-litres looks like a great place to dump a shed-load of energy...
Ok. I'm just checking whether there was any manual intervention at 8am-ish on Friday.As you say that there wasn't, then something has occurred to knoc...
Are those yesterday's readings?Or last Friday's? What 'event' occurred at 8am which might account for the sudden drop in electricity usage?
And what perceived benefit does one get from spending £550-ish on such a pump?! Wilo's technical spec suggests that it doesn't run at -9°C but I'm...
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