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RE: My experience with the Selpos Mason DIY kit

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...

3 years ago
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RE: My experience with the Selpos Mason DIY kit

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...

3 years ago
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RE: My experience with the Selpos Mason DIY kit

@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...

3 years ago
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RE: My experience with the Selpos Mason DIY kit

I know they are furiously expensive and enormous, but I’ve been running on Outback products exclusively since 2007 without a single issue. utterly ...

3 years ago
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RE: Selling second hand heat pump

@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'...

3 years ago
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RE: Retrofitting: moving to ASHP old oil boiler in large old property - experience/advice please on MSC calcs

@katcesca ah, yes that's a complication....

3 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Midea ASHP – High Energy Consumption

@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...

3 years ago
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RE: Retrofitting: moving to ASHP old oil boiler in large old property - experience/advice please on MSC calcs

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...

3 years ago
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RE: Selling second hand heat pump

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...

3 years ago
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RE: Route of primary heat circuit through block and beam floor

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...

3 years ago
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RE: Retrofitting: moving to ASHP old oil boiler in large old property - experience/advice please on MSC calcs

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...

3 years ago
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RE: Midea ASHP – High Energy Consumption

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...

3 years ago
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