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@curlykatie my experience with troubleshooting my own heating system is that is really important for you the homeowner to know what does what, unless ...
I was looking at these from bellflowsystems they are uk based company. interesting definition of the word budget - cheapest of 650 - but its probably...
I'd have thought from a scientific point of view, the experimental evidence should always be more valid than the theoretical numbers. we had a really ...
If you're on this forum, would really recommend you do the heat loss calculations yourself. you don't need to be engineer, just able to measure and ha...
temps already done. ESP32's and DS18B20 sensors . Dirt cheap. I have loads of them. Likewise interested in a cheap microcontroller readable flow me...
@robl what flow rate sensor / meter and how do you read it with the microcontroller?
I would (and do) use a DS18B20 temperature probe (£2) taped to the pipe. With a bit of pipe insulation over the top the result is within a degree of ...
@william1066 which pump and which modbus/ethernet module for the pump? googling CIM500 finds a grundfos ethernet module that costs 729 pounds, I'm gue...
I put a 300L one from advanceappliances in 18 months ago as my old cylinder was dying. went for the heat pump grade coil in readiness (still have gas...
Really great to see this as I am about 3-6 months behind you and have a strong potential of doing a lot of it DIY myself, with quite a similar setup. ...
@cathoderay HA is rubbish on windows, as you say its a VM (linux based). Best is a dedicated machine (can be old / small) running HA OS which is their...
@curlykatie just a quick one - derek-m is going through diagnosing the secondary DHW circulation pump which is very likely to be part of the issue so ...
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