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@majordennisbloodnok I think your analysis is fair. Realistically very few people and almost no installer is going to set up a home automation syst...
Aren't you forgetting the one (or more) on the driveway? 50 plus kWh is a lot of battery!
Thanks for publishing this As another concrete example of what home assistant can achieve, in the last two weeks I ran it up on a raspberry pi and ...
Good and very interesting news thanks, I will look at their website to see what they say publicly. My lpa is in the process of doubling down on its...
Fair enough and I agree that a closed staircase would reduce hot air rising, although I suspect that convection downstairs together with transmission ...
Houses used to have almost no insulation, so compartmentalising made a big difference. For well insulated houses the difference is smaller, because t...
No. You need exactly the same amount of watts which is determined by (in fact must match) the house heat loss. What changes is that you need bigger...
@lucia There are too many delta ts in heating so it gets confusing As @derek-m says the delta t that matters for rad output is the delta t b...
What are you comparing? Watts depends on flow temperature. So a 1kW radiator at ,70C becomes a 400W radiator at 45C
Indeed so. I am told by a reliable source (someone who was working on the software) that the smart meter 'back end' infrastructure is being substanti...
Time of use is the one which makes economic sense, its a way to balance the grid load thus reducing the infrastructure build needed to electrify the c...
Indeed. Its fundamentally a ToU tariff designed to do some grid balancing, but tweaked to make it useful for a particular purpose. Makes sense. If ...
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