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Interesting. A triple dip might well extend the range of houses for which batch heating (with an oversized pump run at a higher than optimum temperat...
As others have said the foundation issue is debatable. You don't actually say whether the installer fitted the slabs initially or whether they were p...
@toodles blood is an autocorruption of blip!
My solar diverter achieves zero export plus/minus about 80W. I imagine that any other technology, eg a battery or car charge controller, relying on m...
Nothing wrong in my view with high temperature heat pumps provided you don't run them at high temperature, at least for the space heating. In realit...
In most cases you are correct, they reduce efficiency. However fitters think they reduce call outs and in some circumstances they are correct. From ...
I understand the risk, but unless you compel all heat pumps to be 16kW plus, the possibility of undersizing to save capital cost is always present. T...
SCOP at 35 is quoted as 3.98, but from posts here and elsewhere I have the impression that Octopus are targeting conventional retrofits, so 35 may be ...
Yes but...Octopus are an energy company so are in a position to manipulate price if it makes other technology choices easier. And anyway the SCOP of ...
@technogeek I have a couple of comments/questions Buffers can a) increase the engaged system volume, which may reduce cycling time (because...
Fair enough. There is an exception to every rule of course (I said 'in general terms'), which is why heat pump systems (and central heating in genera...
My understanding is that it uses the WC settings as a starting point. Exactly what it does from there and whether it 'times out' any measured modific...
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