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@sapper117 You miss understand, I don't run them overnight, I don't need to!
@jamespa Hopefully their reasons are well intended! They did say that it is better than what they used to install. Time will tell whether that prov...
@majordennisbloodnok Having a home battery combined with your Heat Pump and possibly some solar to me seems a no brainer. Yes there is some up fr...
@batpred I deliberately chose the R32 Daikin 8kw over the other brands. I liked that Daikin have a long track record and lots of data available o...
@jamespa Our installer said the same. You need to adjust it inside and can be easy to overtighten or get it set incorrectly. In the end they just r...
@bazcurtis We had one of these Esbe valves fitted as part of our recent install. We had a similar issue. The hot water tank temperature would dro...
@batpred This was our gas data on a cold day running the boiler 24/7 at 21c with a 1c setback over night and 45c flow temp. It was very useful, a...
@madsid Yes. I used about 1m 50mm cable to connect to the inverter and then shorter cables to connect the batteries together. Ideally you want to...
@batpred Another option is to get your energy consumption data from the bright app and turn your gas boiler down to 45c flow temp (although that'll...
@madsid You don't actually need to use a busbar, you can just daisy chain your 2 packs. I originally daisy chained my 3 packs and they ran fine, ...
@madsid If you click on the picture it'll take you to the Amazon page. These busbars are more than adequate. I run 3x15kwh packs on these, the ar...
These are the busbars I used with our Fogstar kits. They are substantial, solid copper and well made. We used a 40a bi-directio...
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RE: Anyone concerned about GivEnergy?
Is there actually any example of something that doesn't...
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RE: A2A vs A2W: Which Heat Pump Would You Pick?
@temperature_gradient I've had air-to-air for just over...
By Anne Smith , 4 hours ago
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RE: Home automation and the cloud; is there a better way?
+1 It's not just cloud though. Many devices have repl...
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RE: End-of-Life Heat Pumps: How Do You Dispose of an ASHP in the UK?
We've started to document everything, and part 2 of the...
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RE: Summer usage. Why is my Vaillant Aerotherm using so much energy on "heating"?
So the red bars are 'DHW' and the yellow bars 'heating'...
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Its good kit the Midea and significantly cheaper, you w...
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RE: Indevolt Batteries UK Support & Info Thread
Have you tried cutting the grid feed to see what actual...
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RE: Renewables & Heat Pumps in the News
Critics and naysayers will be negative whatever the gov...
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RE: Microbore heat pump installs
In principle you are almost certainly right, but in pra...
By JamesPa , 1 day ago
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RE: Electricity price predictions
@old_scientist We are a low mileage home, so bulk of ou...
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There are just too many unknowns for me to comment on p...
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RE: What is the main ‘dictator’ of Agile’s unit price?
@toodles I keep an eye on wholesale prices and energy m...
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RE: Brand and installer questions for ASHP
Strange, perhaps it doesnt use modbus which the third p...
By JamesPa , 1 day ago
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RE: Upgrading my system, how far do I go?
For comparison, my PW3 with 11.04kW inverter, will char...
By Old_Scientist , 1 day ago
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RE: Changes to Tesla Powerwall Charging Regime?
Elon gate - legendary! I take my hat off to you @toodle...
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RE: Mitsubishi Ecodan not good enough ?
Thanks @goody, appreciate the feedback and sorry you ha...
By marcexec , 2 days ago
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RE: Minimum and Zero Disrupt Heat Pump Installations
True (first sentence) Thats the reason to consider th...
By JamesPa , 2 days ago
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RE: High air source heat pump running costs – Vaillant AroTherm Plus
Quite right. I was using a rough guesstimate of doublin...
By Majordennisbloodnok , 3 days ago
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RE: My Grant R290 9kW Heat Pump Installation
Again, really don't know how accurate this is! &nb...
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RE: MCS Quality Audit – Has Anyone Had One? Did It Lead to Remediation?
@toodles The whole scheme is a shocking waste of money....
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RE: DIY or Don’t Touch? Solarman Smart Meter Install
Yes, and these guys would probably be my preferred inst...
By Batpred , 3 days ago
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RE: Hot water tank lose heat rapidly on random days
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By Bash , 3 days ago
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RE: Ecoflow UK Support & Info Thread
As mentioned above, we’ve got our full review of the Ec...
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