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RE: Ecodan with UFH flow temperature consuming 130kWh per day

It's a big house, so yes you need a lot of power. 49 is too hot for ufh. My flow temp is 43 with radiators. Swap to weather comp and lower the flow te...

3 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: A beginner's journey into DIY home energy storage - no solar!

@benguela I have some pylons I'm going to be selling. I guess two points in lifepo4. 1) the battery will have a massive life, well over 10 years, so...

3 years ago
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RE: Heat Pump Truth or Myth#1 - Keeping it running 24/7 uses less energy

@knukes these are my rates. Pretty interesting if you have a heat pump and batteries. Not much use to me as my current rate is 7.5p/kW for 4hrs a day ...

3 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: A beginner's journey into DIY home energy storage - no solar!

@benguela there are ways. However maybe you want to just sell that inverter and swap it for another more compatible one? It would probably be cheaper ...

3 years ago
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RE: 14kW Midea ASHP in an old leaky building

@cathoderay I've noticed today that the Midea app is showing non-rounded numbers. It's still reporting rounded (see below) but the chart isn't rounded...

3 years ago
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RE: A beginner's journey into DIY home energy storage - no solar!

@benguela then they are fobbing you off. Plenty of BMS work with solaredge. It's just another protocol.

3 years ago
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Energy Storage
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RE: Batteries Cold Weather

@bighorse I don't have that experience personally, mine are inside the house. That said I've seen a number of videos on the topic, below is a good DIY...

3 years ago
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RE: Batteries Cold Weather

@bighorse if it's cold and unheated they should know better than to just stick it in a shed. It's all over the documents and usually on the battery it...

3 years ago
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RE: Batteries Cold Weather

Yeah batteries really don't like being cold. You could build a little insulation box around them and maybe add in a warming pad. Below zero the batter...

3 years ago
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RE: A beginner's journey into DIY home energy storage - no solar!

@benguela is your existing inverter hybrid?

3 years ago
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RE: 17kw Grant Aerona heat pump not performing

@soniks from my experience balancing rads takes quite a bit of time (99% waiting around). I'm wondering if he could be bothered with tweaking and wait...

3 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Tepeo ZEB

So it's an electric boiler, but with a solid core. I don't really see the benefit tbh. It's going to be wildly expensive to run as it's basically a fa...

3 years ago
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