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@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...
@jamespa For sure, hopefully nothing needs to be done to it for some while! Thankfully we had some very experienced heating engineers, 3 of them fo...
@batpred Ouch! Our install officially finished a couple of weeks ago as we decided to re-pipe the old part of our house radiator circuit after th...
@editor Ours is costing about 50p per day, so i can't see any reason to switch it off 😀
@razz I have no idea. I suspect it was down to the HP engineers and the quality of the installation.
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