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My tank is not DHW, it is an indirect, and a rather old thermal store, so not too well insulated by modern standards, but is in a well insulated boile...
@lfranklin You could try setting this to economic mode for a couple of days and see how well it works. If you can get hot water with the tank set t...
That depends on what you want to achieve and what you have installed. If you have the right heat exchanger and hot water tank you should be able to o...
Note: there is an element of "lost in translation" in all the heat pump manuals, but this is what they say. In Power or Forced mode the booster heat...
#3032 and #3033 will tell you when and for how long
The booster heater can be disabled [#3031], but you can also disable it by making sure your hot water is on economical setting, not standard, power or...
@lfranklin - there is definitely two (or potentially more) components to this, and as Derek said, being systematic will speed things up. From what I ...
You are correct "sort of use controllable" ... what actually happens depends on what target temperature you set, whether you enable the booster heate...
The option does not exist. My unit just kicked in a couple of minutes ago. No compressor activated, outside unit only using 100w, just sucked some h...
This is definitely acceptable, do you have a link to the pressure loss chart?
@iancalderbank You need the chart, because given a big enough pump you can probably get a pretty high flow rate. I would ideally like less than .5 mh...
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