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RE: Thinking about how to heat our new home: a 330 year old former paper mill

@junglied ufh is going to be far more efficient in a large space. If we had the choice we would have put it in, but our house was already done by buil...

4 years ago
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Ground Source Heat Pump (GSHPs)
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RE: Thinking about how to heat our new home: a 330 year old former paper mill

@junglied I would really not advise electric heaters. In the end you'll pay a fortune in bills. If you want the best system, go UFH with a heat pump o...

4 years ago
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Ground Source Heat Pump (GSHPs)
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RE: Thinking about how to heat our new home: a 330 year old former paper mill

@junglied there is a tool in my signature if you want to just do your own rough survey. Do you know the current details? The building should have an E...

4 years ago
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Ground Source Heat Pump (GSHPs)
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RE: Thinking about how to heat our new home: a 330 year old former paper mill

Before you say poorly insulated, I'm going to assume it needs a tonne of work. Have you considered insulated plasterboard? You can do a lot of heavy l...

4 years ago
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RE: Heat storage batteries

Our Warmstone Heat Battery replaces the boiler in your home... and can be installed as a straight boiler ‘swap out’. 1.7t ... Straight swap... Sur...

4 years ago
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Wood Burners, Biomass, Small Scale, Biofuels & Other Heating Alternatives
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RE: FiT versus actual solar exports

@majordennisbloodnok you also can't be on octopus go - they state that specifically

4 years ago
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Solar Photovoltaic (PV)
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RE: new PV, iboost, battery info- esp Powervault

@derek-m I'd be interested to see how you get on. My main concern would be that a lead acid UPS isn't really designed for cycling rapidly, as your use...

4 years ago
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RE: new PV, iboost, battery info- esp Powervault

@alex I would honestly consider just a generic battery, you'll get far more storage for your money. You can always change the charge controller/invert...

4 years ago
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Solar Photovoltaic (PV)
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RE: 14kW Midea ASHP in an old leaky building

@cathoderay you connect to the midea WiFi then you tell it which network to connect to (to get to the internet) and the password. Then you disconnect ...

4 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: 14kW Midea ASHP in an old leaky building

@cathoderay just borrow a phone and do it that way. Once it's connected you can just use the emulator to log into the app. You'll save yourself a lot ...

4 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: new PV, iboost, battery info- esp Powervault

@jeff it's just lead acid, so should last a while. That said, lead acid you can't really empty very well. They generally only have a 50% depth of disc...

4 years ago
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Solar Photovoltaic (PV)
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RE: new PV, iboost, battery info- esp Powervault

@derek-m the stats I can find states Battery Type 2 x 12V8AH Sealed Lead-Acid = 192Wh of storage Maximum power 15-20mins depending on load. Whic...

4 years ago
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