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I suppose that this is the World in which we live. I hope that most people with an iota of common sense would appreciate that we should all do our b...
@davidalgarve As Bontwoody has pointed out, the most efficient way to produce hot water is by means of your heat pump. This may also be the most cos...
Hi David. You could have a power diverter installed along with your PV system. The diverter monitors the current flow at your electricity supply,...
The process is slightly different at the heat pump end. The LWT is set by the controller, either a fixed value or one using WC. If the heat pump is ...
I installed a small A2A unit at our home some time ago. It serves two purposes, whenever sufficient solar PV generation is available it provides total...
@chandykris I believe that your home heating system should be capable of supplying the needs of the whole home, independent of the actual number of ...
@rhh2348 Yes, reducing the flow rate should cause the DT to increase. What actually happens in practice is that say the overall flow rate is 10 lpm,...
@rhh2348 A vortex flowmeter is actually measuring the velocity of the liquid passing through it, which coupled with the actual area through which th...
Achieving an accurate flow measurement is probably the more difficult of the four main parameters. As you state the Sika data shows the VVX20 standa...
I believe that the FTC controller can only vary the water pump speed if the actual water pump is capable of having its speed varied. An easy way to ch...
The only time that you may wish to have a TRV in the living area is in a room or rooms that suffer from high solar gain. While in an open system, the ...
@majordennisbloodnok You do realise that by having more doors, it means that there are more doors that your wife can slam in your face. 😋
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RE: Home automation and the cloud; is there a better way?
+1 It's not just cloud though. Many devices have repl...
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RE: Anyone concerned about GivEnergy?
An incredibly enlightening piece on the subject by @maj...
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RE: End-of-Life Heat Pumps: How Do You Dispose of an ASHP in the UK?
We've started to document everything, and part 2 of the...
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RE: Summer usage. Why is my Vaillant Aerotherm using so much energy on "heating"?
So the red bars are 'DHW' and the yellow bars 'heating'...
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Its good kit the Midea and significantly cheaper, you w...
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RE: Indevolt Batteries UK Support & Info Thread
Have you tried cutting the grid feed to see what actual...
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Contractors pack for inta antifreeze valves are around ...
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RE: Renewables & Heat Pumps in the News
Critics and naysayers will be negative whatever the gov...
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RE: Microbore heat pump installs
In principle you are almost certainly right, but in pra...
By JamesPa , 21 hours ago
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RE: Electricity price predictions
@old_scientist We are a low mileage home, so bulk of ou...
By ChandyKris , 22 hours ago
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There are just too many unknowns for me to comment on p...
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RE: What is the main ‘dictator’ of Agile’s unit price?
@toodles I keep an eye on wholesale prices and energy m...
By ChandyKris , 1 day ago
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RE: Brand and installer questions for ASHP
Strange, perhaps it doesnt use modbus which the third p...
By JamesPa , 1 day ago
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RE: Upgrading my system, how far do I go?
For comparison, my PW3 with 11.04kW inverter, will char...
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RE: Changes to Tesla Powerwall Charging Regime?
Elon gate - legendary! I take my hat off to you @toodle...
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RE: Mitsubishi Ecodan not good enough ?
Thanks @goody, appreciate the feedback and sorry you ha...
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RE: Minimum and Zero Disrupt Heat Pump Installations
True (first sentence) Thats the reason to consider th...
By JamesPa , 2 days ago
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RE: High air source heat pump running costs – Vaillant AroTherm Plus
Quite right. I was using a rough guesstimate of doublin...
By Majordennisbloodnok , 2 days ago
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RE: My Grant R290 9kW Heat Pump Installation
Again, really don't know how accurate this is! &nb...
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RE: MCS Quality Audit – Has Anyone Had One? Did It Lead to Remediation?
@toodles The whole scheme is a shocking waste of money....
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RE: DIY or Don’t Touch? Solarman Smart Meter Install
Yes, and these guys would probably be my preferred inst...
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RE: Hot water tank lose heat rapidly on random days
@jamespa Hopefully their reasons are well intended! ...
By Bash , 3 days ago
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RE: Ecoflow UK Support & Info Thread
As mentioned above, we’ve got our full review of the Ec...
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