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Joined: Oct 11, 2025
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RE: New Fogstar 15.5kWh upright solution

@batpred Which BMS do you mean? You say you've upgraded the Seplos BMS firmware, but then go on to say JK BMS? It can't be both?

3 months ago

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RE: British Gas vs Octopus Energy vs Heat Geek vs EDF vs Aira vs OVO vs EON.Next vs Boxt

@jwhite The design temp of Heat Geeks doesn't stack up to me. How can it be at 40c with no radiator changes, especially when BG are requiri...

3 months ago

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RE: British Gas vs Octopus Energy vs Heat Geek vs EDF vs Aira vs OVO vs EON.Next vs Boxt

@jwhite You could ask British Gas to price match Octopus, they did for me. They might quibble at the additional cost of the Vaillant unit, but ma...

3 months ago

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RE: Solis S6-EH1P8K-L-PLUS – Why I Chose It and What I’ve Learned So Far

I'll be interested to see how you get on. Are Octopus still charging for this route, or is it free now? I also don't have an MCS certificat...

3 months ago

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RE: Solis S6-EH1P8K-L-PLUS – Why I Chose It and What I’ve Learned So Far

@majordennisbloodnok Thanks. Yes, no problem. Where is the best place to get an image and what image would be recommended as I'd imagine there ar...

3 months ago

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RE: Solis S6-EH1P8K-L-PLUS – Why I Chose It and What I’ve Learned So Far

@batpred I have a couple of old Ish small desktop Dells that won't run windows 11. I think their power draw shouldn't be too much as it'd need to...

3 months ago

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RE: Solis S6-EH1P8K-L-PLUS – Why I Chose It and What I’ve Learned So Far

@batpred Thanks. What do you run your HA server on? I'd hoped I could use the Samsung tablet for this, but it seems I can only use it as a client. ...

3 months ago

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RE: Solis S6-EH1P8K-L-PLUS – Why I Chose It and What I’ve Learned So Far

@batpred Ok. So you didn't login to the dongle at all, just made the router allocated IP address static in the router settings? I have g...

3 months ago

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RE: Solis S6-EH1P8K-L-PLUS – Why I Chose It and What I’ve Learned So Far

@batpred I've had a bit of time to look into this today. I have tried to get connected to the dongle via a data cable to manually change the IP a...

3 months ago

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Energy Storage

RE: British Gas vs Octopus Energy vs Heat Geek vs EDF vs Aira vs OVO vs EON.Next vs Boxt

@editor That's not my experience Mars. British Gas sent out an engineer to do our survey. They'd started their BG career 25 years ago on the tools....

3 months ago

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RE: British Gas vs Octopus Energy vs Heat Geek vs EDF vs Aira

@stevettweed When I started my journey with BG in October they didn't give me an online quote, perhaps that is a new thing. After the survey (on ...

3 months ago

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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)

RE: British Gas vs Octopus Energy vs Heat Geek vs EDF vs Aira

@stevettweed Try British Gas. For me they were by far the most thorough, professional and flexible company ( even compared to Heat Geek). They'll...

3 months ago

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