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Posted by: @rusty ↑ I had only a granny charger for the first two years of EV ownership (Kia niro,). I didn't ...
That post sounded, in several places, just like the way ai responds, have you been spending too much time with Claude and picked up some 'ai speak'? ...
I had only a granny charger for the first two years of EV ownership (Kia niro,). I didn't find the charge time a problem with a bit of planning. I e...
Thanks for sharing that. Your objective seems very sensible as is working out what to do before you are forced to do it in a hurry! As to the cal...
Was the tweaking adjustment of assumptions to fit the facts?
My only comment is well done. You have come at this several different ways and got, perhaps a bit fortuitously, very similar answers. If only heat p...
Nothing attached! I have rads but UFH makes the case for not using thermostatic control (and certainly not third party thermostatic control) even st...
Passive cooling should always be the first call. Keep the heat out rather than trying to extract it by using more heat! Southern European countries ...
It can be done but really, really, don't, you will regret it and you will suffer exactly the problems your installer is predicting and almost certainl...
I think this calculation goes the other way. 3.54kW gas is used of which 85% went to the house (the rest up the flue). So the house needed 3kW. ...
Volumisers are normally plumbed so that they are in the heating circuit only, which is done by putting them after the diverter valve. Yours has obvi...
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