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Joined: Jun 22, 2024
Last seen: Nov 23, 2025

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RE: Wood burner with ASHP - direct air?

This depends on the size of your wood burner and size/type of house. If your house is a tad leaky, stoves labelled 5kw and below don't need direct air...

4 months ago

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Wood Burners, Biomass, Small Scale, Biofuels & Other Heating Alternatives

RE: Difficult positioning of air source heat pump

@rikiarn It's a not a buffer it's a volumiser which is not the same thing. It helps keep the system on its toes during defrosts in the winter, for exa...

4 months ago

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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)

RE: Is your heat pump insured?

To make things clear, lots of insurance companies cover heat pumps, some dinosaurs will not, a few have been known to waffle on about 'units in the ga...

4 months ago

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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)

RE: Plug and play solar. Thoughts?

Have a read of my previous posts on so-called Balcony Solar (there’s a sum up of the state of play in my older post just above my post today). There’s...

5 months ago

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Solar Photovoltaic (PV)

RE: Plug and play solar. Thoughts?

And we have it: DESNZ are now investigating the feasibility of balcony solar. Good start but please ignore some of the utterly stupid comments ("we...

5 months ago

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Solar Photovoltaic (PV)

RE: Spain's blackout - El Apagón - the report is out

The first press reporting is out Here's a brief synopsis from Spanish media: The big Blackout El Apagón: "The government is blaming Red Eléctrica...

5 months ago

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Well & Truly Off The Grid

RE: Renewables & Heat Pumps in the News

A small FACTUAL update (which echoes what 'my' expert said about frequency oscillations elsewhere in Europe -see my post above). Note there are no c...

6 months ago

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Well & Truly Off The Grid

RE: Renewables & Heat Pumps in the News

Oh my……. American Enterprise Institute another fossil fuel-funded lobby .... And sure enough their ‘solution’ (last sentence) is nuclear and gas ‘for ...

7 months ago

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Well & Truly Off The Grid

RE: Renewables & Heat Pumps in the News

@transparent Red Eléctrica will require data with greater granularity than 1-second internals.Inverter technology acts very much faster than do rot...

7 months ago

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Well & Truly Off The Grid

RE: Warm weather and heat pumps.

@editor Oh nothing right now because $ needed for structural things but if I stay in my current house I thought I'd get a small, dual aspect 800 w kit...

7 months ago

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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)

RE: Heat Pump Servicing & Maintenance – Good Value or Rip-Off?

Maybe you could do a video on it please? Ask all the main manufacturers - Daikin, Vailent, Mitsi, etc., to comment? That would be so helpful.

7 months ago

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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)

RE: Warm weather and heat pumps.

@editor Until last week, we’d cranked our weather comp curve right down. As of yesterday, heat pump for heating is now off. I can't turn mine off,...

7 months ago

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