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Haha thank you, thank you. It was a good chat. I don’t hear my Midlands accent until it’s recorded. Damn. And I wish I hadn’t mentioned my Octopus rat...
@derek-m I agree Derek. But the electric consumption on the Daikin screen is below the actual meter installed with the ASHP. So hey ho. But either w...
@mona I’ve just been pressing buttons to on the Daikin. It says it’s consumed 1088kWh of electric and produced 4725kWh of heat. So a COP of 4.34. I do...
@mona welcome to the forum Mona. We’ve only had our ASHP since April. my SCOP from MCS was 3 I think. But as stated in my Worcestershire ASHP note in ...
@andygo Hi Andy and welcome. Please start a new question in the ASHP section. Need information about: - you floor area - when was the property bui...
@julieb89 good luck with your installation. Please take before and after photos. Please post the details of your installation here so everyone can lea...
35kWh yesterday. Average 30kWh per day in Dec Average 19kWh/day in November. And average 5.5kWh/day in October Predicted was 13.8kWh in Oct, 31.6...
Reporting performance details again. MCS installer predicted electric demand of 2130kWh to date from installation in April. Actual consumption is 1442...
@jeff yes both. Coming to about 21k kWh per year for both
Hi @kev-m our installer, Ecobubl did a hear loss and heat demand calc (required by MCS). He then used the Daikin ASHP tool to plug the data into, to c...
@batalto I disagree. This is projected (MCS) vs actual. I have no way of telling if solar PV or from grid. And I pay two prices depending on time of d...
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