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RE: Solar Power Output – Let’s Compare Generation Figures
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| @papahuhu I think that accessibility issues go in waves, then poly tishuns get tired or change / money gets even tighter and things drop off again. Local buses are my mainstay but even those are threa... | ||
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RE: Tesla Battery Drain
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| @trebor12345 The idea is to ensure that Powerwall knows when it is cheapest to import and most advantageous to export, tweaking the figures by enhancing them is purely to ensure there is no ambiguity ... | ||
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RE: Tesla Battery Drain
By Toodles, 4 weeks ago
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| @trebor12345 I don’t even have a bicycle! Regards, Toodles. | ||
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RE: Who's your electricity provider and what's your tariff?
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| @etchedpixels I don’t flip everyday, but was making the point that it was a possibility. But there’s nothing in the terms and conditions to stop you doing so, or at least there wasn’t when I checked 6... | ||
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RE: Who's your electricity provider and what's your tariff?
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| @agentgeorge That sounds a bit mad from a financial perspective, the radiant heat source will have an efficiency of less than a boiler. But perhaps you enjoy to bask under the heat lamps, lizard like?... | ||
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RE: Tesla Battery Drain
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| @trebor12345 I always assumed OE asks for a MCS cert for a charger and proof of EV ownership. Id be amazed if the one PW has enough capacity to run your heat pump on a single cheap charge. I cycle mi... | ||
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RE: Tesla Battery Drain
By Papahuhu, 4 weeks ago
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| @trebor12345 Figging the software is an apt description. It’s not very reactive to small price differences, it generally needs a helping push. I give mine a shove over the cliff to be sure it works! | ||
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RE: Who's your electricity provider and what's your tariff?
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| @papahuhu @toodles do you take advantage of tariff switching suggested by papahuhu | ||
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RE: Tesla Battery Drain
By trebor12345, 4 weeks ago
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| I have no EV, but the 9p is for cheap overnight rate. How does the Tesla app respond to these settings verses the settings that are used by Octopus? Is it just to "fig" the software. A bit beyond my ... | ||
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RE: Solar Power Output – Let’s Compare Generation Figures
By Tim441, 4 weeks ago
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| Aircon is aka air to air heat pump so, as with air to water heat pumps, they're highly efficient. Getting 3x kwh out for each kwh in. Ehether heating or cooling So useful for aircon in summer - espe... | ||
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RE: Solar Power Output – Let’s Compare Generation Figures
By Papahuhu, 4 weeks ago
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| @toodles I assume you get used to the added complications that most of us take for granted. Is general public accessibility and support constantly improving through legislative changes/compliance, or ... | ||
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RE: Who's your electricity provider and what's your tariff?
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| @papahuhu it was the other way round. Octopus tried to install a huge unit to cope with the losses at installation; i had already done real heat loss calcs of around 5kW so didnt want an over sized po... | ||
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