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Thanks, I use the buffer tank concept in the same way as @jamespa and others here (4 ports), to distinguish from volumizer (with 2 ports). A buffer...
@jamespa Thanks, that is a good point, the installers would be concerned about it. Plus there´s little for them to gain by taking the risk with 5kW...
Thanks, I think most of the 10kW peaks at the 3hr graph are since we have the boiler on setback overnight, which is followed by a surge in the early h...
We are with Octopus Energy for gas as well so I can pull the 30 mins data. I am not sure how far back I can go, but I am attaching 2yrs. Curious about...
Ahem.. 🙂 A PV panel may be £94, so £750k for 4kwp, but the labour and other bits involved in getting PV installed changes the whole equatio...
Yes, and these guys would probably be my preferred installers, a nice family business. They are however sticking to old habits. The other thing is h...
Our tumble drier is rarely running overnight. We never had issues and even if we have a battery, we did not change pour habits of running appliances a...
Sort of, it was fun setting up the containers (as it all runs in the thin pc). As I expected, the docs are a bit limited for some of these components....
Agree, £65 to get that functionality while supporting the HA community is worth it. I use a duckdns address with nginx, works well and was intell...
that’s pretty impressive. I cannot remember many pumps beating that..
I see your point. But without getting very deep, my thinking is if this tax leads to those old contracts moving to other types of contracts, that tax ...
thanks, that was very useful reading. It seems grant pumps can modulate more than most. I am still wondering whether a 5kw Vaillant would do, whi...
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