ASHP sizing for Freezing Conditions

I have one of those. It’s called “Termowentylator” in our house.

I used it in my office before we had the heat pump. I often work during the night in my office so didn’t want to waste energy heating the whole house.

Then I experimented with the heat pump. As you can see from last night, the heat pump uses 1.2kW to keep the whole house ticking along:

So now I’ve decided to use the heat pump during the night instead of termowentylator.

As we all know, mine is oversized for most of the time so I do get a lower CoP but I mitigate that by switching it on and off. I have the luxury that the Ecodan gets up to reasonable efficiency relatively quickly.

Just for the record, it did actually manage a long run yesterday and it was pretty underwhelming efficiency. We were warm though. The effective temp was just hovering below zero.

You might argue our heat loss is about 4.6kW@0 °C from that chart so having a 14kW heat pump is clearly much bigger than required.

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