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@dgclimatecontrol Thanks for your reply. Quite agree that nothing is free but in the case of my EV the service checklist is very short and mostly of ...
@editor No and no from me! For comparison, my EV (Smart #1) requires servicing every 2 years /18k miles in order to preserve the 3 year warranty on ...
As I tell my sceptical neighbours, we now have 5 heat pumps: in the fridge, freezer, wine cooler, EV and ASHP. None of the first 4 are ever serviced...
@wally I should also have said that we are retired, so need the house warm all day, and set the stat at 21C with a set back to 17C overnight.
Just on the tariff point, we find that Agile works for us. We have 19kWh batteries but they only run the house + Ecodan 14kW for around 5 hours on co...
@majordennisbloodnok I put this question into Perplexity (AI search) and got some good ideas " suggest motors for blinds fitted to triangular win...
@majordennisbloodnok Well - I'll go first with a silly idea. If you have a pulley at the top and attach a heavy weight to the cord, then you could p...
We also have angle-topped bay windows and have decided not to bother with any coverings on the top windows as they are high and there is no privacy is...
I also enjoy the challenge of getting the best out of solar, batteries and ASHP, although my wife is less sure about my enthusiasm to tinker. On a s...
@davidalgarve I didn't stay on AA for long because it seemed to do a worse job of getting the house to the desired temperature. However I have reconf...
This issue continues - 3 days ago no heating on at 0500 and so on waking I had to increase the room temp on the MELcloud app to get the HP spinning. ...
Just catching up with this thread as I am still having problems. A question on the above comment, though: I thought that the WC curve defined the f...
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