Just a thought on bigger buffer tanks

[Timbones (Tim)]

Here’s a related thread that may be of interest:

System Volume

I’ve just been watching this video talking about calculating system volume and adding volumisers: [Buffer tanks, do we need them?!?] This has gotten me thinking again about this. In the past I’ve just been aware of the need to hit the minimum system volume in the spec sheet, but have never thought about the optimum being higher than this. Looking around, the way to calculate seems to be working out the minimum the heat pump can modulate to, what the flow temperature is going to be…