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@transparent My conclusion is as you have noted, that the connection(s) to the cells need checking. There are a few, so one may not be seated cor...
I suspect a good chunk of the "losses" are power consumption of the inverter itself. Our Solis inverter consumes somewhere between 50-100w depending...
@transparent I have 3 of these units and extensive knowledge of building them (and liaising with Fogstar), particularly around the JK Acti...
@batpred Did you build your pack, or buy it pre built?
@batpred That's right the Seplos BMS manages the pack and communicates with the Inverter. The JK active balancer I think you are referring to is ...
@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?
@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...
@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...
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...
@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...
@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...
@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. ...
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RE: Siting of the external sensor on a heatpump
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