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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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@majordennisbloodnok I just noticed that A2A manufac...
By Batpred , 9 minutes ago
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RE: Help me keep the faith with my air source heat pump installation
I didn't know about those, they look like good pieces o...
By JamesPa , 13 minutes ago
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@mkz, that's very helpful. Even if Urban Plumber are no...
By Majordennisbloodnok , 19 minutes ago
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RE: Several AC coupled batteries
That is a good point, a manufacturers can stop trading,...
By Batpred , 1 hour ago
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My first question is why bother with the auto balancin...
By JamesPa , 1 hour ago
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RE: Indevolt Batteries UK Support & Info Thread
Hi @hanno - good question. The range of hybrid invert...
By Transparent , 1 hour ago
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RE: GivEnergy inverter tripping due to over-voltage?
@transparent the inverter was installed in 2021 and afa...
By Tim441 , 2 hours ago
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I share the same experience as @majordennisbloodnok hav...
By Old_Scientist , 3 hours ago
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RE: Say hello and introduce yourself
I hope so, @toodles. It's not often that we see a situa...
By Majordennisbloodnok , 5 hours ago
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RE: Heat pump design review please: 5 kW Vaillant aroTHERM Plus heat pump
@jamespa many thanks, definitely i will give the pre...
By ragtime27 , 17 hours ago
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RE: Heat pump installation quotations
@jamespa I noticed that in the Heat Geek design consult...
By Batpred , 18 hours ago
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RE: Electricity price predictions
Good point, I do expect the bonus of putting my energy ...
By Batpred , 1 day ago
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RE: Daikin ESPAltherma and Home Assistant installation
@bash, something we haven't touched on already relates ...
By Majordennisbloodnok , 1 day ago
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RE: Air source heat pump roll call – what heat pump brand and model do you have?
Vaillant arotherm plus 12kW. Installed March 2025. Ex...
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