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Octopus Cosy 6 installation (fan boy video)

Lucia · 2024-09-15T19:01:50Z

Here's the first Octopus Cosy 6 YouTube installation video - I'm disappointed - the lack of questions or critical reasoning is sad to see. Nicholas, the homeowner, managed to conjure up TJ, the Octopus heat pump big boss, which makes me question the claim that he paid for the installation - the softball questions smack of a PR agency... TJ is the guy I had a bit of a to and fro with on Twitter - when I put it to him that Octopus using 50º design temps was offloading running costs onto customers in exchange for quick hit installs. It's interesting to me, the way he phrased his comment on this in the video which was filmed shortly after our wee debate - I used British Gas as an example to him in our discussion and he knows I'm a journalist. [🤔] The Cosy: Designed by a pretty reputable guy but I suspect the brief is plug-and-and-play for Mr & Mrs Jo Public who won't want to think about weather compensation curves or flow rates. That's not an entirely bad logic of course, it's a market that must be addressed and smart-arsed Octopus got in first. It's plastic! 🤦🏻♀️ There's all the obvious criticisms of it being just plain ugly, likely to fill up with dead leaves and crap, or snow. The sensor pads in rooms (the miles of trunking on that guy's install (why the f*** did he put it outside his garden), the overselling of the refrigerant being greener and crucially, all that kit bundled inside the case.... but no one questions the data harvesting! The Cosy can not only be 'updated' by Octopus, it can be physically run - ideally to fit smart tariff timings - but potentially also for load shifting during grid overloading times. Meanwhile, Octopus get to harvest all that juicy data and link it to smart meter data - there's gold in them thar hills and no one asks any of the awkward questions about data privacy and rights. 💰 Oh, my days. 🙈

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31/10/2024 12:21 pm

@majordennisbloodnok Timing Dear Boy, …Timing.

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31/10/2024 1:22 pm

@wreckguru that’s the other part I can’t get my head around.

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Topic starter 01/11/2024 11:06 am

@wreckguru

I can give you some details on a few things - like survey, order process, the changes made during that process, some customisations and then the install, commissioning, support and finally the remedial work to get me happy

Yesterday my installers told me the designers have already upgraded the Cosy 6 software to offer more 'controllability' (weather compensation and so on) for those who want to go beyond plug and play. Plus, it's likely they will continue to do this, which is great.

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Topic starter 12/11/2024 5:56 pm

@wreckguru Just skim read - 1 typo - Blurb = Bulb? 😁 Otherwise great - could you possibly add your kwh use since installation?

But @editor is the gaffer so he'll do a proper edit and rejig. 😉

(First time I've seen the back of a Cosy - never imagined it was flat). 🙂

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12/11/2024 6:24 pm

@lucia fixed. I added the kW and also a picture of the inside.

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Topic starter 12/11/2024 6:50 pm

Posted by: @wreckguru

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@lucia fixed. I added the kW and also a picture of the inside.

It's NAKED! 🙈

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12/11/2024 7:15 pm

Posted by: @lucia

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@wreckguru Just skim read - 1 typo - Blurb = Bulb? 😁 Otherwise great - could you possibly add your kwh use since installation?

But @editor is the gaffer so he'll do a proper edit and rejig. 😉

(First time I've seen the back of a Cosy - never imagined it was flat). 🙂

Thanks, @lucia; you beat me to it.

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