New heat pump Grant R290 - hot water advice

Ah, an input from Grant technical folks which I will repeat here in case it is of use to anyone (and on the offchance it may be correct :grinning_face: ). I inquired about the ‘setpoint temp correction’ parameter in the heat source setup options, and was told:

“The Set point temp correction is relating to a correction temperature to prevent overheating of a space. If you set this to for instance 2°c it will decrease your target flow temperature by this amount to try to help prevent the space overheating. This is more of a trial and error parameter where small changes make a big difference, my advice would be to leave it where it is if your heating is working okay.”

Not sure that makes sense, when we already have the ‘circuit temp correction’ (which increases target flow temp above the WC calculated value), plus WC curve shift options (which can go either way). It must only apply under some circumstance I haven’t figured, or have some effect beyond just winding the LWT target down a bit (which it doesn’t seem to, when I change it).

Maybe it only applies when pump blockade is off, and the room stat says ‘satisfied’, so this correction is applied as well as the reduction coefficient related to how far over/under you are? I have pump blockade on, so wouldn’t see it.

Hey Dave,

So connecting up to the local econet api on Home Assistant I see the same pattern of oscillation over a 4 min cycle.

The image above is with a limiter of 70 on maximum pump speed. If I reset to default (no limiter/100) then I get the following.

Below is the same period on my heatpumpmonitor dashboard

Econet300 shows a range from 5l/m to 20l/m

My flow meter shows range of 12.1l/m to 23l/m but both show the same oscillation. I’m going to reinstate the pump limiter now as the 10l/m instant ramping up is very loud and will cause unnecessary wear on the pump.
@glyn.hudson do you have a technical support contact at Grant, I’m reluctant to go through my installer and bother him with what seems like an issue with the new firmware rather than commissioning.