Last seen: Sep 17, 2025
@cbrenewable Your COP does appear very low and if you don’t have a buffer that rules out one possible cause. The only thing that stands out as unusual...
@judith that’s interesting as my calculations suggested a smaller battery that didn’t last the day was more cost effective for me. I couldn’t even mak...
Hi. You would probably need to swap the inverter for a hybrid inverter. That would support battery charging. However I would look into the cost v payb...
@sandman1600 I’ve been following this thread and although I understand your misgivings there is no way swapping an oversized heat pump for a smaller o...
Hi Alistair. I’m not an engineer but it sounds as if your analysis is correct to me. Perhaps others will be able to confirm. A replacement like for...
@ashp-bobba @old_scientist thanks both. Very useful.
@robs I will have to see if I can find the Samsung setting. Thanks.
@editor Thanks Mars, thats very helpful
@old_scientist Well thats answered the question for my Samsung 🙂 Is the setting to turn off the space heating just the thermostst in the controller?
@pooneil Apparently you can set up a different water law for the outing mode. see this thread: If thats the case and you can find what it is set ...
So just for completeness here is may last update on this topic regarding the cost effectiveness of adding another 5kWh to my battery module. Betwe...
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