Last seen: Mar 18, 2024
After seeing Dave Gorman tot up the fees for a "Product of the Year" contest, I'm very cynical: who says it is "Most sustainable and innovative domest...
Come now, Derek, but then the owners of the utility companies would not be sure that their fixed costs would be covered and you can't expect capitalis...
@saz as I understand it, flow rate is higher and more critical with heat pumps and a lot of microbore was installed badly, with sections shared betwee...
Swytch looks great for daytime fair-weather riders but it looks like it might not work for me or many other people who cycle for transport year-round ...
Where are you getting the liquid soap ingredients from and what recipe are you using, please? I'm currently using the little cif dilute-at-home refi...
@alec-morrow I can't completely agree with that. The Mitsubishi FTC6 is simply not smart enough yet for all homes. I'm not here to make the fine adjus...
@kev-m The graphs are from the OpenEnergyMonitor emoncms add-on app called "MMSPHeatPump" which was posted to their forums. The output from the defaul...
Yes, that seems to be what's happening. In this graph, blue is the power output the controller has worked out, red is what the pump actually uses and ...
That will teach me to read too fast! I'd been away and only just managed to pass that horrible insulting discriminatory "are you a human?" test (I kno...
Some settings like the weather compensation curve are behind a long-press on the menu key (so not the usual tap to open the menu) but do not require a...
In general, yes to all of the above. In particular, with a Mitsubishi ecodan, no, raising part of the curve does not always use more energy, because t...
The Mitsi unit I've got may be mediocre but it's heating my house, while @cathoderay's Midea isn't heating hers... but maybe the unit's worse while th...
Latest Posts
-
RE: Heat loss calculations and how they work in conjunction with heat pump sizing
@grahamf I had a similar journey, had 2 people do he...
By AgentGeorge , 30 minutes ago
-
RE: Heat Pump Installers: Competence, Illusion and the Hard Truth Homeowners Must Face
I do just want to make it clear that this is not about ...
By Fiona , 43 minutes ago
-
@agentgeorge Back to the Future with the flux capacitor...
By GrahamF , 10 hours ago
-
RE: Renewables & Heat Pumps in the News
I am not sure if many people would be running aircon or...
By Batpred , 12 hours ago
-
RE: What crazy nonsense are inverter limits and why are they imposed?
That will be producing significant losses due to phase ...
By Transparent , 13 hours ago
-
RE: Isolating the system for a planned power cut
When I said we'd need to know more about the RCD, MCB a...
By Transparent , 13 hours ago
-
RE: Radiator sizing for heat pump installation by British Gas - are these correct?
With the frvs, I assume looking at the blurb, they just...
By Bash , 15 hours ago
-
Which tells us something (including possibly everything...
By cathodeRay , 15 hours ago
-
RE: Flexi-Orb Heat Pump Scheme Update: Progress, Pilots and Why This Matters for Homeowners
Thanks for sharing. Sounds promising, ISO are indepe...
By Batpred , 19 hours ago
-
RE: Specifying batteries, pv solar etc using ChatGPT
I have been positively surprised when I asked it to spe...
By Batpred , 19 hours ago
-
Thank you. That simultaneously answers my question abou...
By Transparent , 23 hours ago
-
RE: Heating Turned Off but Radiators Still Warm
What do you mean by 'turned off' exactly. Same questio...
By JamesPa , 24 hours ago
-
RE: Low Flow Rate Error - 8 kW Ideal Logic ASHP - Help!
@wh0am3ye - OK, starting to make sense, but it does mea...
By cathodeRay , 1 day ago
-
@editor fortunately we have a boiling water tap in the ...
By bontwoody , 1 day ago
