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I very much doubt that ToU tarifs are disappearing any time soon, the suppliers and the grid have real problems to deal with namely the evening peak a...
Ah, not so useful then For sure, hopefully before next winter! On the Vaillant, programming NR mode (both on/off and hours of operation) is a...
That is what everybody else's hush/quiet mode is so almost certainly, they cant do magic!. See my comments above on how I successfully use Vaillant's...
@little-lights If I understand you correctly your system is AC coupled, (ie you have 2 inverters). Its the battery inverter you need to concentrate o...
If it's like every other quiet/night/noise reduction/silent/hush mode, it simply limits compressor modulation and/or fan speed. This reduces max out...
Its definitely quite complicated and as I say whole house backup with PV off grid is very much not yet mainstream. I havent gone ahead with a battery...
OK so here are my thoughts. Your panels and battery fundamentally dont in principle need changing, they are not where the 'smarts' are. The issue i...
FWIW I have been investigating battery recently (for about the 4th time - basically I struggle to make the business case work) and my judgement of the...
In general they aren't and he is wrong. End of in almost all cases. That said Aira are essentially vertically integrated so can actually set up th...
In general they aren't and he is wrong. End of in almost all cases. That said Aira are essentially vertically integrated so can actually set up th...
@little-lights Done properly an ASHP will almost certainly give you greater comfort for similar or lower running costs even in 'normal' times witho...
Fair enough. Its interesting that opentherm (for boilers) has been around for decades but several large manufacturers, eg Vaillant, didn't adopt it ...
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