Last seen: Jun 27, 2025
The issue with outback stuff, or at least the legacy stuff that I've got is the closed nature of their communication protocol. They do make a sunspe...
Outback was started by Robin and Bob Cudgel (spelling) who were engineering leads at Trace before they were purchased by Xantrex. The 'Outback name ca...
@transparent I’m not, but you can stack multiple ones in parallel (an installation that I wired up and commissioned for another Dorset resident worked...
I know they are furiously expensive and enormous, but I’ve been running on Outback products exclusively since 2007 without a single issue. utterly ...
@zoomuno I would genuinely recommend you ask Brendon to cast an eye over this install to see what improvements can be made (there will be many) - you'...
@katcesca ah, yes that's a complication....
@tried2fail you need to ditch the heatmiser neostats and get the midea controller moved into the habitable space and get the system running on that, a...
The bunding regs only apply when you are a certain distance to a watercourse, many oil supply companies get that wrong and tell you that all tanks nee...
Ebay and Facebook marketplace are the best outlets. Stuff the package on there for £500 start and you'll sell it. Expect it to make around £1500 (imho...
Not B&B, but my builders are doing a class Q conversion at the moment and they laid a couple of lengths of 32mm pex-al-pex in between the layers o...
Stick with oil, it currently is and likely will continue to be the cheapest way to heat a property for a good while yet. Leave your current rads, inst...
Your usage figures seem about right, for example in November that is only 31kWh/day. If the ASHP was working at a COP of 3, that would be 93kWh of Hea...
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