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Ours was okish, still did better than last year August. We generated a little over 500 kWh. But, with the savings sessions, free weekend electricity, ...
Looks like not much change in electricity prices in the current price cap announcement. Assuming Octopus have already done their forecast prior to Ofg...
@toodles Yes, kind of. If we hadn't plugged in the EV, we would have just used the solar we generate.
Not sure if the free hour of electricity will run every weekend. But, I added extra charge on the car, some extra hot water, baking etc done. If like ...
@papahuhu Only couple of bedrooms and potentially one downstairs living room. The other downstairs open plan living dining kitchen has far too much gl...
@tim441 Our annual usage is about 3000 kWh for the heat pump, 1300 kWh for the EV and about 3500 for other household. I tend not to discharge from the...
@tim441 That's so true about doing things differently with more knowledge. But, I am glad I discovered this community before we installed our ASHP. Lo...
@tim441 Two reasons, the panels are South West facing. Plus, lots of clipping due to the 3.6 kW inverter. Our DNO approved only 6 kW export, and given...
What a month it has been for solar! We saw our best ever generation with excess of 700 kWh, even higher than last June. Sunny wise, probably June was ...
@peterackstraw What's the calculated heat loss for your property? Ours is a relatively new build with a heat loss of about 6 kW for approx 200 sqm hou...
@trebor12345 20% does sound excessive. Gemini suggests daily standby consumption of around 500 Wh to 800 Wh for a Powerwall, so yours seems to be much...
@trebor12345 I don't have a Tesla, but my Growatt inverter consumes about 30 wH on standby mode. So, over 5 hours it loses about 1%. In winter, this w...
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RE: Siting of the external sensor on a heatpump
yes, it would have been easy to place it in permanent s...
By Batpred , 1 hour ago
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RE: Next steps on my ASHP journey: Radiators and Pipework
You should (amost) always reject having a buffer, by wh...
By JamesPa , 3 hours ago
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RE: Navigating the World of Refrigerants In Heat Pumps: A Guide for Homeowners
Indeed we are invvestigating AC at present and are havi...
By Toodles , 6 hours ago
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RE: Is it the house or the equipment?
@majordennisbloodnok I do sympathise. On the original...
By springswood , 8 hours ago
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No, but the heat pump must be capable of delivering a S...
By JamesPa , 12 hours ago
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Sorry to hear about the problems, its going to be somet...
By JamesPa , 14 hours ago
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RE: Daikin ESPAltherma and Home Assistant installation
It's laziness lol The PV system is very chatty, meter...
By bobflux , 1 day ago
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RE: Problems with sizing a replacement for a Viessmann Vitocal 200-S
R (The R Project for Statistical Computing, I use it wi...
By cathodeRay , 1 day ago
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RE: Vaillant Arotherm Plus 7KW need a service on it
booked it with Vaillant. will use them until i can find...
By AdamK , 1 day ago
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RE: Adventures in heat loss calculations
I have seen it stated that the declared calorific value...
By JamesPa , 1 day ago
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RE: Two heating zones to one zone
@transparent Many thanks. The garage is fairly well ...
By Profzarkov , 2 days ago
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RE: Vaillant Aurotherm - Heater Wire Position
Ah, good point. I need to check if this was installed i...
By Batpred , 2 days ago
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@batpred thanks for getting a copy. Appreciate the supp...
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RE: Tell us about your Solar (PV) setup
We have a 6.56kW solar PV system (16x 410W panels) inst...
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