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Vaillant's comment about de-icing is: It is hard to say how often a de-icing cycle will take place as it depends on several things…• The humidity of...
@richard24738 You had commented above that "I have today placed temperature probes on the buffer 4 ports. The top two pipe readings Primary in 40.0c a...
I recently bought some of those cheap digital thermometers with probes and have been using them to monitor the flow temperatures for the buffer tank i...
@transparent I've got some 5 minute data which includes the battery charge level. The increase in charge over the first 5 minutes of charging is about...
@transparent Further to my comment above, I contacted Tesla who changed the grid code in my Tesla gateway (battery controller) from G99 to G98 and the...
Vaillant have this comment about de-icing "The de-icing cycle will happen more often when the outside air temperature is around 2.5°C but will happen ...
The Vaillant Arotherm Plus specs refer to "Inrush current (with inrush current limiter)" which, I presume, manages this problem but perhaps other manu...
My 7kW Vaillant Arotherm+ heat pump has a maximum current of 15A according to the label. It should be sufficient for a very large new house that has b...
I normally see a steady increase in the sunny day peaks as January progresses. There's a link to my data below but I would note that my winter solar g...
Propane is denser than airso any leak is likely to spread laterally and not vertically. However, something else to watch out for is any airbricks in...
The lower you can get the flow temperature the better. If need be you can upgrade some of the emitters after getting some experience. Could you inst...
Octopus charged me nothing to remove my gas meter after my heat pump was installed and the boiler removed. The person who removed the meter said that ...
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