Talk:Thermal Stores and Heat Banks

Created article

Need better pictures and to expand text.

John Stumbles 04:31, 16 December 2006 (GMT)

Category DHW or domestic hot water

Maybe we should decide on one name for this category. The category 'Domestic Hot Water Systems' is already in use in several other articles, DHW is not. DHW will be found using the search box, so I'm not sure we need DHW as a category.

Agreed, but how does one delete a category? I've removed the Category: tag from the one article that referrred to it, and deleted the contents from the category page itself. That seems to have done it (I hope)

--John Stumbles 22:39, 1 January 2007 (GMT)

Introductory section

Thanks for the changes NT. I had not considered how this article might appear taken in isolation: it was originally part of my DHW systems article but I split it into its own article since it was so big. I can see that, taken in isolation, it needs a bit of introduction to a user coming straight to it to set the context in which they may be interested in stores & banks.

Since several of the advantages you list are already covered in the main DHW article I have referred the reader to that article instead of trying to re-state things in this one.

I left out the bits on them being more efficient, having faster recovery etc since these are not true of all such systems and anyway are discussed in detail in the article itself. I'm assuming that if someone wants to understand the technology they'll read the articles in full to do so. If they just want factoids such as 'more efficient' without any real comprehension I'm sure there are plenty of places they can go for them :-)

I also took out the glossary as I couldn't see its purpose in this article. If the reader reads the article they'll find these terms described as they are used or used with links to further information (in the hypertext way). I can see that someone may come to the wiki wanting to know what, say, the term 'plate heat exchanger' or 'primary water' is. The search function should give them some answers, including uses of these terms in other articles (such as conbi boilers and central heating systems) which they wouldn't get from a glossary in this article alone.

I can see that a glossary at a higher level (maybe in the main DHW article or possibly the main Heating or even Plumbing sections, or maybe at the top level for the wiki overall) could be useful if someone could put together - and continue to maintain - a comprehensive one. However it seems like an enormous amount of extra work when we've enough to do building the main corpus of the wiki, and if it's not comprehensive I wonder if it's worth doing at all?

By the way I also changed the heading level of your 'How They Work' section heading to 2 (2 = signs either side). Mediawiki documentation recommends not using level 1 (1 = sign) as that is reserved for the article heading itself.

--John Stumbles 15:10, 10 January 2007 (GMT)