Last seen: Sep 18, 2025
Welcome to the forums @hightower – I don't really know much about Nest and how it works. Is it a central thermostat that regulates and calls for heat ...
@saf1973, welcome to the forums and good luck with your installation and hopefully your system will be installed well. We'd still love to hear your up...
Today is another intensive day. 302g/kWh as a UK average. For the first time I truly understand the argument for nuclear energy. Interestingly, I thin...
@derek-m, you’re welcome. The 39g is a terrific number, but the rest of January - 13 days - has been extremely poor with the electricity grid producin...
To address COP, the data I’ve used for our property is on compressor consumption - the actual amount of electricity we drew from the grid to run the h...
January 3, 2022
@julianc, I think that electrification has to be the end goal, and I completely get your point about burning HVO (or any other biofuel) for home heati...
In the attached document, what does nil kWk mean (when looking at electricity tariffs) and why is the tariff calculated by dividing the sum of money b...
The carbon emissions factor is from the government's Standard Assessment Procedure for Energy Rating of Dwellings (SAP 10.2) I don't profess to be a...
@prjohn, energy costs are worrying – I'll read this article tonight when I get a chance. Everything these days is politicised.
The bivalent controls on our heat pump don't allow us to run the boiler on weather compensation which is a pity. When we get off the HVO trial, we'll ...
@kev-m, that's very satisfactory. That would have been around £76 this time last year with Symbio. But still very good.
Latest Posts
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RE: Powerwall 3 or Myenergi or something else?
Many of those tariffs are simple time of use tariffs, w...
By Temperature_Gradient , 7 hours ago
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RE: Help me keep the faith with my air source heat pump installation
Yes thats the whole point of the flexis as regards tran...
By JamesPa , 7 hours ago
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So far as I can tell designing for DT5, which is 'the n...
By JamesPa , 8 hours ago
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Mitsu PAR-WT60R Wireless Controller - options
I hope I have satisfactorily installed the above wirele...
By DavidAlgarve , 10 hours ago
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WC curve best discovered by experiment anyway as any lo...
By JamesPa , 14 hours ago
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RE: Big Changes Coming to Our Heat Pump System
@editor your engineer's attitude is truly horrifying. ...
By GrahamF , 1 day ago
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RE: How to choose Towel Rails for an ASHP
@rob-nezard yes absolutely. Here is the link and a pho...
By GrahamF , 1 day ago
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@mixergy Thanks for the update, I would appreciate some...
By bontwoody , 1 day ago
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RE: Is Your Broadband Router the Weak Link in Your High-Tech Home?
Unfortunately I'm not that well connected 😂 ...
By Scalextrix , 2 days ago
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RE: A Customer's Lessons Learnt from a Heat Pump Installation in a Large House
It is interesting to see what our new Grant Aerona 290 ...
By GrahamF , 2 days ago
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RE: Testing new controls/monitoring for Midea Clone ASHP
I've never physically seen it, but I seem to recall som...
By cathodeRay , 2 days ago
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RE: Midea ASHP – how to set weather compensation
I noticed that too and thought the same thing, but then...
By cathodeRay , 2 days ago
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RE: Ya can’t win! It is S*d’s Law!
@old_scientist If IOF is still running next late spring...
By Toodles , 2 days ago
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RE: Electricity price predictions
Those of you on Agile will do well tomorrow; there are ...
By Toodles , 2 days ago
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RE: Who’s Caved and Switched the Heating On Already?
We've been running our Ecodan system, installed in June...
By Sheriff Fatman , 3 days ago
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Ok. Two schools of thought. The first is to run the ...
By JamesPa , 3 days ago
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@drei Willing as I am to help, I don't think I'm yet ...
By JamesPa , 3 days ago
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Selling 5 year old ASHP & Gas Combi Boiler - £590
Selling a 5-year-old Daikin Altherma Hybrid Air Source ...
By Paul G , 4 days ago
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RE: Is a Valliant Inline 6kW heater a BUS buster?
Much of that is true in principle, but its not likely t...
By JamesPa , 5 days ago
