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    Condensing exhaust temperature

    The basic explanation lies in the Latent Heat Of Evaporation, in a nutshell it requires 540 times the heat energy to produce one gram of water vapour at 100 degrees as it does to heat one gram of water from 99 to 100! This is why when boiling an electric kettle, you hear a noticeable "sag" in...
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    Electric versus LPG for hot water?

    Thanks again guys, Prior to early retirement I worked in a strange little corner of the NHS as a Senior Maintenance Technician, primarily concerned with Building Management Systems, HVAC, lighting, alarms, CCTV, etc via the old Johnson Controls Metasis system and later changing over to Trend...
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    Electric versus LPG for hot water?

    Thanks for the reply Andrew, Since the boiler installation, and reading the manual, I did conclude that may well be the case. Unfortunately at the quotation stage it proved extremely difficult to engage the companies concerned in any sort of meaningful discussion about weather compensation...
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    Electric versus LPG for hot water?

    On the face of it a simple question, but bear with me ;) I had a new boiler fitted in January, a Worcester Bosch 27i LPG Compact System boiler, this load modulates and can be weather compensated. I noticed immediately that when set at the 60C (1st indent on the knob) point to allow maximum...
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