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Yes, you are right. And so far in Feb you have been using 10kWh per day for heat and HW. Which might be just enough in a small well-insulated house, b...
When I look at the energy consumption when the unit is cycling I often see a dramatic short but high increase in power draw before it goes into a rest...
And while you're on the photography assignment!! a pic or two of the energy screens, particularly the one that shows totals for the past month and yea...
Of course higher electricity prices make it more unattractive, but the premise of question assumes that electricity becomes more expensive than altern...
The EcoDan preplumbed cylinder would have been, er, preplumbed and prewired in the Mitsubishi factory. Not that mistakes don't happen of course. Dav...
As I understand it you have to have extra monitoring input to the FTC board (such as you would with one of the MMSP monitoring packages) to get more d...
If you can see a small box like this attached somewhere near the cylinder or controller then you should be able to connect to Melcloud (there will...
Hi Sarah – I have a similar sized Ecodan and your energy consumption figures are very similar to mine for Dec and Jan, directly a product of the cold ...
Are you sure the DHW pump is over-running? It would quickly be pumping the cold water that was entering the cylinder low down as hot water was drawn o...
I would concur with Kev M that you are better off setting the target temperature setbacks in the schedule section of the controller, at least until th...
@gfletcher I have a similar setup to you – an 8.5kW Ecodan alongside PV – and have noticed a similar pattern over the summer. Melcloud has reported...
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