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Carpenterstation
Carpenterstation
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RE: Heat Pump + Dynamic / Smart Tariffs - what is your approach?

Because the cosy octopus tariff has 3 low cost windows (still expensive compared to gas or LPG though!) we charge the batteries 3 times a day and disc...

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

🙂 the manual!! Ha ha. 84 languages and print so small it is illegible. Poor quality images and impossible to follow. I think I can use batteries ...

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

Ok thanks I think I am getting there (slowly) last question- how do I adjust the WC to balance the house when everything is open? And should I remove ...

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

Is this the temperatures? It is cold today!

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

@jamespa I don’t know what temperature I am running at ? Where will I find that out? if I turn up all the trvs and turn off (up) all the thermostats t...

1 year ago
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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 year 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 year 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 year 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 year 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 year 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 year 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 year ago
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