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I wouldn’t try a direct linked system of DC at all since you have too little control and you surely want the excess to go to the house? and I suspect ...
@lucia have you discoveredfor how green each of our energy suppliers are? It doesn’t include nuclear yet so many are greener than this figure. His tal...
@transparent ok for me on iPad 17:34
@andrewj it reads as if you really need a 6kW version or they need better turn down temperatures. From your gas usage of 9000kW divided by rule of t...
I hope this helps I might have put them up here before but I can’t recall when.
this has been modelled for the passive house planning package and as a result there are simplified values come out. Heat loss with no insulation under...
@jeegnesh some small points to supplement what James wrote above. First the easy answer on your OP. It is very normal to have huge electrical consum...
Our 7kW Vaillant is wall mounted, no problem neat installation, noise minimal. It’s on the Vaillant recommended brackets. It’s not absolutely simple i...
@jamespa I’m less inclined to believe the shift of taxes onto electricity was to cripple the transition as unintended consequences. There’s plenty of ...
We have the original FIT tariff (very nice indeed thanks) and it’s long since paid for. Without finding the paperwork it was ‘inflation linked’. So ...
@editor contuning your theme of MCS. I started reading the audit committee investigation on the insulation scandal and Ian Rippon was explaining how g...
@colinc good luck with your project! UFH is the absolute best from both comfort and ASHP efficiency. We have it in the extension and wish we had elsew...
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