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RE: Indevolt Batteries UK Support & Info Thread
By Transparent, 2 weeks ago
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| There are electricians who would be prepared to implement such a strategy...... but not if the Loads could exceed the 400w available. You could simply have two consumer units, one of which is supplied... | ||
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RE: Electricity price predictions
By Old_Scientist, 2 weeks ago |
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| The Octopus Saving Sessions are regional, and are defined by the electricity regions I believe (so a lot larger than the BSP's @transparent refers to above), but I think most sessions run nationally a... | ||
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RE: Electricity price predictions
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| Demand Flexibility Services appears to conflict with present government policy. But NESO are correctly following 'good science' rather than political whims. Ed Miliband had attempted to introduce Noda... | ||
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RE: Electricity price predictions
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| Interesting read from NESO on their Demand Flexibility Service (DFS), published this week: I think this is what is behind things like Octopus Saving Sessions, where they are able to offer free electr... | ||
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RE: Has anyone seen this problem before? Huge anticycling times
By JamesPa, 2 weeks ago |
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| Oh dear. Glad it was replaced. I have been mighty impressed up until now this is shaking me a bit. | ||
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RE: Has anyone seen this problem before? Huge anticycling times
By cg360, 2 weeks ago |
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| Mine was replaced as they couldn’t fix and couldn’t identify the fault. But mine is on a north facing wall and gets very little sun, fault occurred all year so i doubt overheating was the issue in my ... | ||
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RE: Can I start an argument about buffer tanks please? 🙂
By JamesPa, 3 weeks ago |
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| Dont, just adjust the LSVs to get different temperatures. Doing something bad to fix something bad is not good engineering! Having a small percentage of rads with TRVs is unlikely to do any harm eve... | ||
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RE: Can I start an argument about buffer tanks please? 🙂
By bobflux, 3 weeks ago |
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| Not a good idea to use just a towel rail during summer for two reasons: 1) Pipes will still radiate heat, either wasting power or making the house too hot in summer 2) To avoid constant short cycles y... | ||
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RE: Can I start an argument about buffer tanks please? 🙂
By Temperature_Gradient, 3 weeks ago |
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| Is that such a problem with a 3-pipe buffer tank, where the radiators receive a direct feed from the heat pump? They should be receiving the highest possible flow temperature. Although that configurat... | ||
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RE: Heat pump running costs – what has actually worked for you?
By bobflux, 3 weeks ago |
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| I installed the air source heat pump in January 2026, it replaced a dead ground source heat pump. I did not use it in the way the forum recommends: since the installation was setup for an on/off, non ... | ||
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