August 21, 2025Aug 21 Hi everyone.I have recently purchased a home and am in the process of planning renovations. The house is old and the current geyser will have to go ( its a very old geyser).I am looking at getting an IHP geyser for the property. Has anyone installed one of the 200litre units from power4less? If so how are you finding it in terms of consumption and efficiency? We are a family of 4.I am intending on going with a solar and battery back up system and hoping that the IHP geyser can also be powered by the system.
August 21, 2025Aug 21 31 minutes ago, Sarfb said:Hi everyone.I have recently purchased a home and am in the process of planning renovations. The house is old and the current geyser will have to go ( its a very old geyser).I am looking at getting an IHP geyser for the property. Has anyone installed one of the 200litre units from power4less? If so how are you finding it in terms of consumption and efficiency? We are a family of 4.I am intending on going with a solar and battery back up system and hoping that the IHP geyser can also be powered by the system.They seem to be just a heatpump that is integrated with a tank. Probably use a third of the power as an element does just like a traditional heatpump. Other than that there is nothing fancy about them.
August 21, 2025Aug 21 That's an integrated heat pump and geyser. Will certainly be more efficient and consume less power, but try to find out about the noise. You might not want one near a bedroom.I have a heatpump - outside. A plus here is that because the consumption is low it can be run on the backed up side of the PV system. All through load shedding we always had hot water.
August 21, 2025Aug 21 Searching around, some sites seem to suggest a saving of up to 84% heating costs with the 200l IHP geyser, suggesting you're using 3.4kW less heating power, when compared to a 4kW element on a conventional geyser, because this heat pump only uses 0.6kW.That might be confusing Power and Energy. The COP for this IHP is 4.11, in other words, you are getting just 0.6 x 4.11 = 2.466kW - let's just call it 2.5kW -of actual heating performance. So you're going to have to heat the water longer, just to reach the same temperature, compared to a normal 4kW geyser element.The savings wouldn't be 85%, rather something lower, more in line with typical heat-pump performance. Looking here at an ITS 3.6kW with a 4.18 COP for example.I'm not saying that heat pump technology isn't better than a conventional element, of course you'll use less power energy overall. I'm just wondering whether this 2.5kW performance is good enough compared to the 4kW that it's supposed to replace, or whether it's not better to go with a separate tank combined with a separate more powerful 3.6kW or 4.5kW performance heat pump, for getting hot water quicker when you need it.As always, just my layman's 2c, open to correction. Edited August 21, 2025Aug 21 by GreenFields
August 21, 2025Aug 21 8 minutes ago, GreenFields said:Searching around, some sites seem to suggest a saving of up to 84% heating costs with the 200l IHP geyser, suggesting you're using 3.4kW less heating power, when compared to a 4kW element on a conventional geyser, because this heat pump only uses 0.6kW.That might be confusing Power and Energy. The COP for this IHP is 4.11, in other words, you are getting just 0.6 x 4.11 = 2.466kW - let's just call it 2.5kW -of actual heating performance. So you're going to have to heat the water longer, just to reach the same temperature, compared to a normal 4kW geyser element.The savings wouldn't be 85%, rather something lower, more in line with typical heat-pump performance. Looking here at an ITS 3.6kW with a 4.18 COP for example.I'm not saying that heat pump technology isn't better than a conventional element, of course you'll use less power energy overall. I'm just wondering whether this 2.5kW performance is good enough compared to the 4kW that it's supposed to replace, or whether it's not better to go with a separate tank combined with a separate more powerful 3.6kW or 4.5kW performance heat pump, for getting hot water quicker when you need it.As always, just my layman's 2c, open to correction.2.5KW Should be plenty. I have a 2kw element and even though it is on a 150 litre geyser, I havent had issues with the geyser taking too long to heat etc. 2.5 for 200 litres should be more than enough...Unless there is plenty people showering one after the other, then it might be too small.
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March 17Mar 17 I bought a house with this geyser installed before my arrival, although I inherited it and it seems to work well, which I cannot prove due to to the non existent aftersales process, the company absolutely ignores just making a user manual available to me, so now I am stuck, I have written to them on many occasions, and their response is that they have no record of the installation, so they cannot provide info, since then, they have ignored all my requests, just for a user manual, I would steer clear, because at R28000.00 I doubt that they will cover guarantees when they cannot even supply a user manual to an existing system.
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