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RE: Weather Compensation Cost not efficiency?

@jeegnesh Hi Running in WC mode just means that you will be using the lowest flow temperature that is suitable for heating your house given the ou...

9 months ago
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RE: Samsung Gen7 setup

@raiph Hi Ralph It would be useful if you could annotate your graph with what is using the power at different times. Ideally you want to minimise an...

9 months ago
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RE: Business case for a battery?

@transparent Thanks transparent. I noticed the similarities in this thread to mine and thought I would save you the trouble of going over the same gro...

9 months ago
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RE: Business case for a battery?

@jamespa Mine is outside at the moment but I will be moving it indoors. The sea air is hard on it :-). I believe the LiFePO4 are much less likely to c...

9 months ago
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RE: Business case for a battery?

@jamespa You are in a similar situation to me James, although I am a little further down the line having installed a small 5 kWh battery. What I ...

9 months ago
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RE: Battery sizing - How low can you go!

@transparent A new luna battery would be more expensive (£s/kWh) but if I could pick up a second hand one at a good price, it would mean I wouldnt nee...

9 months ago
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RE: Battery sizing - How low can you go!

@transparent I was musing that if I managed to get a cheap used Luna module I could just change the inverters to get both arrays charging the batte...

9 months ago
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RE: Battery sizing - How low can you go!

@transparent So my thinking was that the new inverter needed to be 3.68 kW to satisfy the DNO, but I guess if the SunSynk can be limited to whatever t...

9 months ago
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RE: Battery sizing - How low can you go!

@transparent so two of these might do :-)/p> Actually I was looking at a wind turbine before an extra battery but discounted it after looking at the...

9 months ago
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RE: Battery sizing - How low can you go!

@transparent OK, so am I actually going to need 3 inverters to achieve the charging of the battery from both arrays? Do you have any suggestions about...

9 months ago
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RE: Circulatory pumps and weather compensation

@bretiix Some heatpumps (eg Samsung) can control the pump speed automatically via something called pulse width modulation. Im not sure if any other ma...

9 months ago
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RE: Battery sizing - How low can you go!

@transparent Yet another thing I forgot to mention 😁. The new panels are split 50:50 on East and West roofs Im away from home at the mome...

9 months ago
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