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Carpenterstation
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Joined: Jan 31, 2025
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Topics: 2 / Replies: 27
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RE: Not a good January? My heat pump used 840 KWh of electricity

I have no leverage, no system design, no hand over details. Weather compensation is”automatic” for Mitsubishi Ecodan - and I have been told not to med...

1 month ago
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RE: Not a good January? My heat pump used 840 KWh of electricity

@jamespa I didn’t want either cascade or a low loss header. But the installers refused to install a single ASHP system due to property size (450m2) de...

1 month ago
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RE: Not a good January? My heat pump used 840 KWh of electricity

@tim441 I don’t know exactly how many kWh because my cascade system is unable to tell me that. I don’t think a meter can be an MCS requirement beca...

1 month ago
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RE: Not a good January? My heat pump used 840 KWh of electricity

@tim441 East Midlands Uk. Yes to weather compensation. 15kwh of batteries / 10kw solar. Octopus cosy tariff. (Ovo heat pump no longer available). no...

1 month ago
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RE: Not a good January? My heat pump used 840 KWh of electricity

January 2025 was our first month with ASHP. In 2024 we spent £3675 on LPG and electricity for the whole year. In January we spent £600 with ASHP. ...

1 month ago
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RE: New Mitsubishi system, several concerns but just a newbie…..

Got home from work today. Same scenario. Nothing calling for heat. One of the cascade pumps is running - again burning high cost electricity ? What fo...

1 month ago
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RE: New Mitsubishi system, several concerns but just a newbie…..

@gary thanks very much Gary. I genuinely appreciate the help. I will try all that tomorrow at 18:00 ish again and will let you know. thanks agai...

1 month ago
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RE: New Mitsubishi system, several concerns but just a newbie…..

This is exactly my point. There is literally nothing running in the house except a fridge freezer and the house is burning 4kw - and the heat pump is ...

1 month ago
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RE: New Mitsubishi system, several concerns but just a newbie…..

And here is the solar tracker showing that I am burning 4kw - that can only be the heat pump.

1 month ago
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RE: New Mitsubishi system, several concerns but just a newbie…..

Just checked the schedule timer some photos all taken at the same time it looks like schedule1 is set Jan to Dec and schedule 2 is i...

1 month ago
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RE: New Mitsubishi system, several concerns but just a newbie…..

@gary thanks Gary. This is the video I used to set the timer. so the question remains - why are the units cycling when neither heat, nor hot water ...

1 month ago
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RE: New Mitsubishi system, several concerns but just a newbie…..

Sorry not entirely sure what you mean by “scheduler” or “constant”, but I have used the standard Mitsubishi controller to schedule when the hot water ...

1 month ago
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