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Last seen: Nov 3, 2025
@dgclimatecontrol - you have awoken me from my several year slumber... how can I help?
Hope you're all enjoying the lack of heating in this weather. The forum is dead until October and then we'll get the "why is my bill bigger" crowd. ...
an ASHP cannot create energy - all it can do is extract it from the air supplied using power. When someone says an ASHP is 300% efficient, it isn't re...
Honestly since I set them up I've not touched them at all - the only times I've turned them off was when I was messing around with the inverter and ne...
@derek-m 1000tph isn't that great a volume to be honest. I've worked at mines with production rates of 250,000 tonnes a day of hard rock. Soft rock mi...
@derek-m coal isn't really my thing. However, been to plenty of mines. Two loading methods, continuous mining which is done via conveyors. The mining ...
As someone who works in the mining industry this analogy appalled me lol. Trucks don't load hoppers. It's drawn directly from a surge pile
Just as personal update. So far this month my total power bought for everything is 13kw off peak - so just over £1 so far. Not too shabby for all my h...
Can confirm, they (Freedom) said I could take out the LLH with no impact as long as it was done by someone they work with. No negative impacts at a...
I am locked in on Go at 7.5p/kw off peak and 39p/kw peak - its insane the price arbitrage. Below is the bill I just got from Octopus for 21st of Feb t...
@cathoderay it would seem it is as we expected. Rounding downwards makes the COP look much worse than it actually is and power use look higher. In ess...
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RE: Siting of the external sensor on a heatpump
I agree. However I would also (primarily) expect that ...
By JamesPa , 6 hours ago
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RE: Next steps on my ASHP journey: Radiators and Pipework
You should (almost) always reject having a buffer, by w...
By JamesPa , 10 hours ago
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RE: Navigating the World of Refrigerants In Heat Pumps: A Guide for Homeowners
Indeed we are invvestigating AC at present and are havi...
By Toodles , 13 hours ago
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RE: Is it the house or the equipment?
@majordennisbloodnok I do sympathise. On the original...
By springswood , 15 hours ago
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No, but the heat pump must be capable of delivering a S...
By JamesPa , 19 hours ago
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Sorry to hear about the problems, its going to be somet...
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RE: Daikin ESPAltherma and Home Assistant installation
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RE: Problems with sizing a replacement for a Viessmann Vitocal 200-S
R (The R Project for Statistical Computing, I use it wi...
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RE: Vaillant Arotherm Plus 7KW need a service on it
booked it with Vaillant. will use them until i can find...
By AdamK , 1 day ago
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RE: Adventures in heat loss calculations
I have seen it stated that the declared calorific value...
By JamesPa , 2 days ago
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RE: Two heating zones to one zone
@transparent Many thanks. The garage is fairly well ...
By Profzarkov , 3 days ago
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RE: Vaillant Aurotherm - Heater Wire Position
Ah, good point. I need to check if this was installed i...
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@batpred thanks for getting a copy. Appreciate the supp...
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