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nevertheless it had just finished a de-icing cycle and was in the following 3.2kW power draw peak, which is the same amplitude that it generated a few...
I’ve ‘invested’ a whole £3.99 for an audio spectrum analyser app. I’ve not captured all the apps features but this was our 7kW Vaillant running at 3.2...
@dwynwen sadly you need to give them (yet another) chance to fix the installation or you will be prevented from from any further redress. Do you hav...
@davidmo6 When we had the gas boiler we used to set the house to 15C and it took a day to warm up on the last day of our holiday. Now with the heat pu...
At last caught the ashp on its peak after de-icing. Drawing 3.2kW electrical power (about max seen) for a few minutes, the noise level was normal, no...
The sampling rate of 5mins is not quite fast enough to see all the features. The ‘off’ period is ~7mins out of ~40. A real monitoring system would be ...
I’m using different systems to look at similar information but I’m afraid lwt is not one of them. On 3rd Jan we had mostly -ve temp rising to ~0...
@cathoderay & @transparent I have attempted to measure start up current spikes but don’t have high speed monitor devices. The monitor on our batte...
Another thread about noise on Vaillant when running on max in posts 56 onwards. Several good ideas from the Urban Plumber
Googling noise with ashps and found this technical document/p> it identifies several noise related issues
@lucia I’ve started reading the work of Dieter Helms a centrist Oxford economics professor He did a cost of energy review for the government and ha...
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