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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: Several AC coupled batteries
@etchedpixels Absolutely, I built mine as I assumed it ...
By Batpred , 7 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 , 7 hours ago
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I take the point about the scarcity of helium gas - tho...
By Billsp44 , 8 hours ago
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RE: Heat pump installation quotations
@jamespa I noticed that in the Heat Geek design consult...
By Batpred , 9 hours ago
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BUS uplift to 9k for off grid installs. I can't establish if new builds are specifically excluded.
Hi.The BUS grant for new self builds is pretty straight...
By jimseng , 16 hours ago
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Looking for installer in Somerset
Hi All I am looking for someone who can re quote for ...
By jimseng , 16 hours ago
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RE: Electricity price predictions
Good point, I do expect the bonus of putting my energy ...
By Batpred , 17 hours ago
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RE: Daikin ESPAltherma and Home Assistant installation
@bash, something we haven't touched on already relates ...
By Majordennisbloodnok , 19 hours ago
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RE: GivEnergy inverter tripping due to over-voltage?
@transparent it might be interesting to note the early ...
By Tim441 , 21 hours ago
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RE: Help me keep the faith with my air source heat pump installation
@jamespa these:
By AdamK , 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...
By Harebell , 2 days ago
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RE: Load Shift and Lifestyle Shift Complete - our journey has ended, for now
Last year we managed a net nil cost. Exceeding all my h...
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RE: MCS 2.0 - Changes in January 2025
It strike's me that there's various improvements which ...
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