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RE: ASHP in Hampshire

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. ...

2 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: ASHP + Diesel heater?

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...

2 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: My experience with the Selpos Mason DIY kit

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...

2 years ago
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Energy Storage
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RE: What do we need to know before installing a heat pump?

@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...

2 years ago
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Government Schemes, Regulations, Planning & Organisations
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RE: What do we need to know before installing a heat pump?

@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 ...

2 years ago
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Government Schemes, Regulations, Planning & Organisations
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RE: What do we need to know before installing a heat pump?

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

2 years ago
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Government Schemes, Regulations, Planning & Organisations
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RE: A beginner's journey into DIY home energy storage - no solar!

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...

2 years ago
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Energy Storage
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RE: What do we need to know before installing a heat pump?

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...

2 years ago
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Government Schemes, Regulations, Planning & Organisations
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FiT increase
2 years ago
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Solar Photovoltaic (PV)
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RE: Octopus tariffs - API & choosing best tariff

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...

2 years ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: Connecting Home Assistant to a Midea Heat Pump

@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...

2 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: My experience with the Selpos Mason DIY kit

@transparent I've been recommended this setup for my existing hybrid inverters by someone in a group I am a member of. Any thoughts? It involves addin...

2 years ago
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Energy Storage
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