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I’d choose Vaillant of the two too. We heard too many sorry tales locally from people who couldn’t control their Samsung well. You’ll find them on her...
In our case we deliberately chose to change the cylinder because 1 the cylinder is in our bedroom and whistling pipes if we re-heated overnight wou...
I hadn’t realised they were loose coils until I saw your post and picture. It really is only due to area and possibly the more random the better for t...
@bash we have mostly south facing rooms which would overheat if the radiators were still working on WC plus full sun. In fact in shoulder season the s...
I comparison with the 65kWh used above yesterday was only 16.kWh😆 Which is exactly 4 times less and why the seasonal average works out OK!
There’s another thread about the Octopus 9 which has needed anti-vibration feet rather than be flat installed on a solid slab. Perhaps any outside noi...
@jamespa re when to switch back, you would have to switch back on if the battery was flat! A look out of the window would tell us whether there was an...
@jamespa you can route the off Grid port to a switch which goes to the house load. Wire your wifi to the inverter “live” common side and the house to...
We have a Sunnyboy inverter 15years old and going strong. When we had a battery fitted which ended up being an AC system in order to leave the 4kW FIT...
This is normal. I’m a fiddler and vary the heat curve slope up and down according to to season. The Vaillant algorithm used on active (and in...
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