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Last seen: Sep 4, 2025
@mjr love to know where you are, Gibraltar
@mjr Tado is well ahead in this, if the boiler has an outdoor sensor, then Tado uses that information There argument is that an outdoor sensor o...
“The adaptive/"smart" learning controls I've seen seem aimed at learning more precisely how fast the building loses heat and warms back up, with the a...
“More savings could be made by looking at the forecast and "charging up" the thermal stores of a building now if it's going to get colder later” ...
Its more sinister than that.. the people who actually keep standards low are the manufacturers themselves. The civil service defer to experts who come...
Really the benefit of all compensation controls is the force heat generators to operate at higher and highest efficiency. It’s the temperature stable ...
i’m never quite sure why we in the U.K. need to reinvent the wheel…we just need to install equipment as the manufacturers of the heat pumps and boiler...
@transparent out if interest what are Ofgem doing about the lack of awareness of controls and the low level of understanding any where in the...
how do you know ofgem are aware of the issue, do you work for them?
It’s a brexit export opportunity to Germany, a plucky brit show manufacturing giants how to save energy! Is sad though that more effort isn’t pu...
@andygo the heat pump or boiler works to the highest temperature..I have a vaillant install with 8 different curves! A vaillant controlled elect...
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