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RE: Are We Sleepwalking Into Another Race to the Bottom?

@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...

2 weeks ago

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Government Schemes, Regulations, Training, Planning & Organisations

RE: Heat Geek Zero Disrupt: Are We Sleepwalking Into Another Race to the Bottom?

@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...

2 weeks ago

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Government Schemes, Regulations, Training, Planning & Organisations

RE: Who’s Caved and Switched the Heating On Already?

@editor Ours is costing about 50p per day, so i can't see any reason to switch it off 😀

2 months ago

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Your Home

RE: Octopus Cosy 12 Heat Pump Regret: Incredibly Loud, Poor Heating & Constant Hum - Help!

@razz I have no idea. I suspect it was down to the HP engineers and the quality of the installation.

2 months ago

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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)

RE: Octopus Cosy 12 Heat Pump Regret: Incredibly Loud, Poor Heating & Constant Hum - Help!

We had water hammer with our gas boiler and lived with it. Since installing the HP our water hammer has gone, so I'd agree that replacing your HP wi...

2 months ago

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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)

RE: Daikin Altherma 3 LT compressor longevity question

Mine has fluctuated all day long between around 250-500w and has averaged just under 400w per hour today with no apparent cycling. I've consumed aro...

2 months ago

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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)

RE: Daikin Altherma 3 LT compressor longevity question

@bobflux Yeah, I don't also. I had wondered why Matt Drummond's 8kw heat pump (the one at the top) has a very steady electricity draw. It must be (...

2 months ago

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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)

RE: Daikin Altherma 3 LT compressor longevity question

@optimistic-optimiser The Daikin at the top is Matt Drummond's I'm pretty sure. There is a lot of posts by him trying to optimise and understand hi...

2 months ago

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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)

RE: Daikin Altherma 3 LT compressor longevity question

@ubert767 @toodles @bobflux @editor @optimistic-optimiser Having had a trawl through OpenEnergyMonitor I found a useful page that gives so...

2 months ago

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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)

RE: Daikin Altherma 3 LT compressor longevity question

@toodles Thanks. I suspect this is normal behaviour, so not particularly worried, but you never know with these heat pumps as there are so many set...

2 months ago

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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)

RE: Daikin Altherma 3 LT compressor longevity question

Thanks Toodles, This is very similar to what I can see in our Shelly app, however the original poster (and me) are looking at the real time...

2 months ago

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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)

RE: Daikin Altherma 3 LT compressor longevity question

@ubert767 We recently had the 8kw Daikin installed and this was on my radar after watching my shelly data (way too much 😆). I have observ...

2 months ago

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