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