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Well yes, but thats a level of complexity thats a nice to have not essential, so expecting regulation to mandate that it can be cloud independent is s...
Is there actually any example of something that doesn't meet the spec you outline? Whatever the answer I agree it's not reasonable, but that's how c...
Fully agreed and there is an alternative which for many will be better, namely to use the native controllers. I don't have a battery but I do have PV...
So the red bars are 'DHW' and the yellow bars 'heating', corresponding to the colours at the bottom. This shows 1kWh for 'DHW' per day and perhaps 0....
Thats really helpful real world experience. By 'well designed' do you mean the same 'well designed' that gives good performance, plus filter(s) or ...
Have you tried cutting the grid feed to see what actually happens? Im still confused as to how it can island and be compliant with the regs, which is...
Critics and naysayers will be negative whatever the government says or does. Its both tiring and depressing. For many of them this is just part of t...
What a surprise! If there is an opportunity to defraud another human, someone will exploit it!
Unfortunately its a function of the physics. Max heat pump output naturally changes with OAT and FT, that is unavoidable. Some manufacturers, most n...
In a word yes, based on what you have told us. You wont find many heat pumps with an output less than 5kW, and unless your house is very badly built...
In principle you are almost certainly right, but in practice its going to need a lot of measurement and interpretation unless its a slam-dunk case whi...
Strange, perhaps it doesnt use modbus which the third parties tend to focus on initially and, unlike Vaillant (which also doesnt use modbus) is perhap...
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