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RE: Vaillant service impasse
By Mars, 1 week ago |
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| @DavidB, I think @Majordennisbloodnok has already nailed the guarantee point, so I won’t repeat it. As @JamesPa suggests, I’d now put this straight back to Vaillant in writing. You tried to book them,... | ||
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RE: Who's your electricity provider and what's your tariff?
By Papahuhu, 1 week ago |
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| @majordennisbloodnok It can’t be the powerwalls, mine are running and my total 24 hr house load is about 7 kWh. This is for a fully electric 300m2 property with 5 inhabitants, I’ve 5 DMEVs constantly... | ||
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RE: Who's your electricity provider and what's your tariff?
By Toodles, 1 week ago |
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| @old_scientist So we can price that rabbit at 2-3 kWh daily!😉 Toodles. | ||
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RE: Who's your electricity provider and what's your tariff?
By Old_Scientist, 1 week ago |
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| As it says, in idle or standby. Mine also draws a lot more when it's working (not idle or standby), either charging or discharging. Maybe this is just the recording of those conversion losses, I don't... | ||
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RE: Who's your electricity provider and what's your tariff?
By AgentGeorge, 1 week ago |
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| My Growatt battery is reporting its humming at 31C and todays operating efficiency is 97%most of today’s 8.5kWh energy used has been the AC unit, Frodge/Frozzo and DoshWisher | ||
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RE: Who's your electricity provider and what's your tariff?
By Toodles, 1 week ago |
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| @majordennisbloodnok Many years ago now, we bought a frozen rabbit in a well known frozen food supplier; the source of the rabbit was China. When I thawed and cooked the rabbit, it turned out to be al... | ||
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RE: Who's your electricity provider and what's your tariff?
By Majordennisbloodnok, 1 week ago |
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| Those figures look far more in line with expectations, @toodles. Sad about the rabbit but happy for your bank balance. | ||
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RE: Who's your electricity provider and what's your tariff?
By Toodles, 1 week ago |
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| @majordennisbloodnok Taking last month’s daily average of 14.6 kWh minus the hungry Powerwall kit wanting to keep cool thus consuming ~2 kWh and minus 2.5 kWh for the DHW, we are using some 10 kWh for... | ||
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RE: Who's your electricity provider and what's your tariff?
By Majordennisbloodnok, 1 week ago |
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| So two powerwalls is more in the region of 2 kWh than 5 leaving 18 kWh per day to account for. Curiouser and curiouser. 2.5 - 3 kWh for your hot water leaves 15 kWh. Yup, I'm convinced you carrying ou... | ||
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RE: Who's your electricity provider and what's your tariff?
By Toodles, 1 week ago |
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| @majordennisbloodnok Further to comment upthread about Powerwall running consumption, Google AI informs me thus: “A Tesla Powerwall 2 uses about 0.3 kWh to 1 kWh per day in idle or s... | ||
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RE: Who's your electricity provider and what's your tariff?
By Toodles, 1 week ago |
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| @majordennisbloodnok My comment about the Neff microwave oven was meant more as an observation of how low the efficiency of such devices really is. I realise the bursts of energy are not required for ... | ||
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