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RE: Surge Protection Devices
By Batpred, 3 days ago |
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| So would the presence of DC components require RCDs to be fit? Vaillant does not seem to be different from other heat pump manufacturers: they state that local regulations would determine such need. ... | ||
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RE: Daikin ESPAltherma and Home Assistant installation
By Majordennisbloodnok, 3 days ago |
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| Yes, indeed, @f1p. My bad; I should've spotted how important making that distinction was. | ||
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RE: Load Shift and Lifestyle Shift Complete - our journey has ended, for now
By Majordennisbloodnok, 3 days ago
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| Thanks for that, @old_scientist. There are several threads historically where people have asked how my setup with Home Assistant and lots of automation combined with Octopus Agile compares with the mo... | ||
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RE: Surge Protection Devices
By Batpred, 3 days ago |
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| Vito Energy has information on their website about this Hager/Vaillant collaboration. Hager still shows some info in their website. Could it be that Vito's arguably excessive focus on these perceived... | ||
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RE: Daikin ESPAltherma and Home Assistant installation
By F1p, 3 days ago |
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| be connected to the heat pump or connected to your PC From @majordennisbloodnok's post, i am putting strong emphasis on the word "OR"It could be damaging to your heat pump if you backfeed power from ... | ||
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RE: Daikin ESPAltherma and Home Assistant installation
By Majordennisbloodnok, 3 days ago |
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| Most ESP devices are wifi, so my preference is hardly mainstream. Wifi should be fine, albeit you may find the odd dropout every now and then; it's weaker wifi signals that start to give a bigger prob... | ||
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RE: Load Shift and Lifestyle Shift Complete - our journey has ended, for now
By Old_Scientist, 3 days ago
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| Great job @allyfish I think it's an easy decision if you only have a heat pump or only have an EV, but combine the two (as will hopefully become more common) and the choice of tariff becomes less cle... | ||
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RE: Daikin ESPAltherma and Home Assistant installation
By Bash, 3 days ago |
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| @majordennisbloodnok @f1p - Thanks. After reading the code somewhat more (with my very limited experience of these things!) I came to the same conclusion, to use the exact device Raomin sugges... | ||
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RE: GivEnergy inverter tripping due to over-voltage?
By Transparent, 3 days ago |
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| Thanks Tim. That SolarEdge data also shows voltages above 253v. But we don't know enough to tell what's happening. Eg Is the voltage falling again because the SE Inverter knows the volts are too high,... | ||
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RE: Load Shift and Lifestyle Shift Complete - our journey has ended, for now
By AllyFish, 3 days ago
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| @tim441 very good question, and the reason is our limited BESS capacity of 13kW, which would not power the ASHP in the heating season during the day. A night-time tariff for EVs doesn't power our ASHP... | ||
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RE: Say hello and introduce yourself
By Will H, 3 days ago |
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| @singlespeed The Haier is a great unit - we've been very impressed with its performance. With the Passiv Smart Thermostat, you won't need to worry about the heat pump controller - there's a couple of ... | ||
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RE: Daikin ESPAltherma and Home Assistant installation
By Majordennisbloodnok, 3 days ago |
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| Thanks, @f1p. @bash, my instinct would have been to go with the ESP device recommendations of Raomin since that's what he or she wrote the code for, and the extra energy consumption of the screen is s... | ||
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