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The thinking for solar is very joined up. Solar panels produce well under their maximum output most of the time and zero at night. They produce most o...
We are on three phase power because it's an enormous listed G2 solid stone pile and we really can pull about 80A plus any vehicle charging. The kit ...
Yes I actually have a copy of a tool that whenever a certain brand of "camping" style battery appears on a local network it will disable it to the poi...
There are folks who sell buckets of bits of seals on the internet, you match them with the existing ones and then swap them. There's a bit of a knack ...
The critical bit is whether it's sustained. Sustained it will crack and destroy bricks and foundations, the water supply will freeze and so on. A coup...
Our stuff as far as I know (not having perhaps tested it as much as I should) - Main inverter and batteries - no internet connection, local control,...
I really wouldn't worry too much about the heating at -20 At a sustained -20 a large number of UK permeable brick and stone houses with water in the ...
It was a power outage. If the magic pile of tricks feeding data out has a power cut then how the data is provided seems a bit irrelevant. Anyway the...
Given that heaptump calculations are basically expensive guesswork for many houses I'd also ask if the oil usage numbers on worst days correlate at le...
@majordennisbloodnok Unfortunately there's a rather more sinister game being played under the surface. Mandating a UK specific special magic set of so...
SMETS2 is already likely to be shifting to allowing internet based links for meters. The test roll out for smart meters talking over home internet ser...
I worked partly in computer security. I saw things that would make people run screaming to unplug their devices from wifi. Any device that is import...
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RE: The Changing Jet Stream Could Challenge UK Air Source Heat Pumps
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RE: Electricity price predictions
great session Reminds me why some politicians can be ha...
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RE: Boiler Upgrade Scheme funding reduced by circa £750 million in 2026 budget
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RE: Why don't people choose heat pumps?
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RE: How much of your renewable and home setup would still work if the internet went down?
absolutely agree. even if many providers see that extra...
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I thought the cr*p came first and the biofuel came afte...
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RE: Aerotherm and weather compensation
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RE: Marvel Heating liquidation
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