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RE: A Beginner's Guide to ASHP Monitoring

@cathoderay I just think that you've perhaps got a bee in your bonnet about HA and the sleepless nights its caused you and conflated matters..sorry, n...

2 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Vaillant flow rates, Delta T, buffer sizing - trying to get ASHP running well but hit a brick wall.

@sunandair yes . your diagram is exactly what we are suggesting to the OP should be their target state - to be reached when a decent period of system ...

2 years ago
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RE: Smart meter installation – seamless or a potential nightmare?

@transparent yes, fair enough and I agree with you. my point is only that switching to 5Ghz on the wifi side is a better option if technically possibl...

2 years ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: Smart meter installation – seamless or a potential nightmare?

surely better advice would be to upgrade your home wifi network and devices to a 5GHz system. anything since Wifi 5 a.k.a 802.11ac released 2014 is 5G...

2 years ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: Vaillant flow rates, Delta T, buffer sizing - trying to get ASHP running well but hit a brick wall.

your system as built has a minimum circulating volume of 45L. i.e. just the buffer. so that must be the min vol needed by vaillant. In your system its...

2 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: A Beginner's Guide to ASHP Monitoring

@cathoderay if you've set a reserved IP address for the HA machine, using the DHCP configuration page of your router, then that will take care of it f...

2 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: PV Inverter Experience/Advice/Support

there are probably better forums than this one for solar inverter trade offs. One thing to be aware of with string inverters - they assume all panels ...

2 years ago
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Solar Photovoltaic (PV)
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RE: PV Inverter Experience/Advice/Support

@transparent I have pretty similar setup. I'm happy to push the Octopus (Intelligent in my case) window to the edge though (2330-0530). there's no sim...

2 years ago
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Solar Photovoltaic (PV)
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RE: A Beginner's Guide to ASHP Monitoring

if you get static IP's wrong its a disaster. Stuff won't work and you can spend hours trying to figure out why . You must separate your network so tha...

2 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Vaillant flow rates, Delta T, buffer sizing - trying to get ASHP running well but hit a brick wall.

yes. hanging on till the summer for a reinstall sounds like the right option. Although make sure you understand exactly what company #2 are going to d...

2 years ago
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RE: Vaillant flow rates, Delta T, buffer sizing - trying to get ASHP running well but hit a brick wall.

@squonk run the system in DHW mode and with your thermometers, see if the water going through the diverter valve, on what should be the Hot input to t...

2 years ago
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RE: A Beginner's Guide to ASHP Monitoring

@cathoderay the beginners commentary for HA , if it was to be written up as a full end-2-end solution , would need to include things like IP addressin...

2 years ago
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