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RE: Replacing Storage Heaters with a Heat Pump in a Stone Cottage
By JamesPa, 2 days ago |
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| I don't know what calculation is done by people fitting combis, but that one makes no sense for combis or heat pumps and vastly overstates the requirement unless your dhw use is quite extreme. You are... | ||
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RE: Replacing Storage Heaters with a Heat Pump in a Stone Cottage
By Paul1098, 3 days ago |
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| I assume the 2.5 - 3kW required to heat the hot water cylinder is added to the total house heat loss to size the A2W heat pump as per a typical non combi gas boiler? | ||
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RE: Vaillant ecoTEC Plus - Flow Temp and Set Up
By Batpred, 3 days ago |
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| @trebor12345 I have been meaning to get home assistant to tweak the legionaries cycle for once a month, at the moment it is also weekly… | ||
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RE: Adding additional Solar Panels to a DC coupled battery system
By EtchedPixels, 3 days ago
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Solar Photovoltaic (PV)
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| @transparent I was replying about the accuracy of "AI" - viz that the AI was busy telling me about nonexistent octopus plug in solar kits and some of the AI diagrams on how to wire things, which would... | ||
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RE: Vaillant ecoTEC Plus - Flow Temp and Set Up
By trebor12345, 3 days ago |
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| I too found the same thing, so reduced the hysteresis. Works like a dream now! The Legionnaires cycle is still a little problem in that the water is too hot. | ||
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RE: Adding additional Solar Panels to a DC coupled battery system
By Transparent, 3 days ago
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Solar Photovoltaic (PV)
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| Source references please @etchedpixels The only reference I can find to Octopus and plug-in solar in this topic is what you've just posted yourself. Where are you reading it is how to wire a UK plug ... | ||
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RE: Replacing Storage Heaters with a Heat Pump in a Stone Cottage
By JamesPa, 3 days ago |
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| @cathoderay The 'constant' has dimensions. Its the volumetric heat capacity of air in Wh/(Km^3) Thus if ach has the dimension 1/h it all works out. | ||
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RE: Indevolt Batteries UK Support & Info Thread
By Transparent, 3 days ago
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Energy Storage
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| SunSynk hybrid inverters also have the capability to assign one or both of the local generation inputs to accommodate a technology which isn't solar PV. The MPPT mechanism is replaced by a power-curve... | ||
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RE: Replacing Storage Heaters with a Heat Pump in a Stone Cottage
By Paul1098, 3 days ago |
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| @etchedpixels This house is fairly straight forward as far as plumbing goes but it's not a typical ASHP job as it includes all the central heating pipework. The existing hot water tank needs to be rep... | ||
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RE: Replacing Storage Heaters with a Heat Pump in a Stone Cottage
By Paul1098, 3 days ago |
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RE: Is This Initial Free Quote From Octopus Trusted Partner Reasonable?
By EtchedPixels, 3 days ago |
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| If you've got a sash window or a door you can remove the plastic panel from and rearrange with the external unit outside cut a slot and then put back and insulate a bit then you could just get a 4kW M... | ||
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RE: Adding additional Solar Panels to a DC coupled battery system
By EtchedPixels, 3 days ago
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Solar Photovoltaic (PV)
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| Also frequently very wrong - handing out diagrams for adding a spur to a UK electric circuit that were definitely not conventional, and claiming that Octopus had sold out of plug in solar kits several... | ||
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