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Last seen: Jan 5, 2026
I'm similar to you, 4 bed, 6.1 solar, 6.4 battery. I went with Octopus with 8kw heat pump. £2250 after grant. I've looked into increasing battery...
January with 6.1kWp system was 213kWh, double that of December. Jan 30th best of 21.3kWh Jan 1st worst of 0.9kWh West Midlands South facing
@sunandair Like you say it varies dependant on OAT, but room temperature over the last week it averages 1 around 1.5 Deg drop. This is till 4am w...
@sunandair Yes the -2 takes it off the LWT, and I have the Daikin 8kw Using offset, obviously keeps the heat pump running as opposed to stop/star...
@sunandair I've just recently started using pure weather compensation which is what you seen to be looking for. It's building the same weather c...
108 kW/h solar produced for the whole of December. 10 days of January so far and up to 62 kW/h. The negative in January is it's been almost const...
ASHP Daikin Altherma 3-8kw House loss? 5431 @ -3.4 Control mode: pure weather compensation Volumiser yes - don't know size No Zoning op...
@toodles Just register again, I waited ages for my mini so registered again and got it about a week later. My 8kw Daikin bottomed out at about 2...
@davesoa Thanks. I went direct to the installer, maybe that was the difference? Did you go through the heat geek website?
@davesoa I was led to believe the survey was non refundable but would be taken off the cost if you went on to have it fitted with them? I eventuall...
@cathoderay Thanks. Yes I use a windows laptop, bought a raspberry pi 4 to install Home Assistant recently which is another learning curve. Th...
Back to the monitoring, I've just ordered the kit for the ESPAltherma hook up. I've no idea into any computer programming but I'm a willing learn...
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RE: Help me keep the faith with my air source heat pump installation
I didn't know about those, they look like good pieces o...
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@mkz, that's very helpful. Even if Urban Plumber are no...
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RE: Several AC coupled batteries
That is a good point, a manufacturers can stop trading,...
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My first question is why bother with the auto balancin...
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RE: Indevolt Batteries UK Support & Info Thread
Hi @hanno - good question. The range of hybrid invert...
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RE: GivEnergy inverter tripping due to over-voltage?
@transparent the inverter was installed in 2021 and afa...
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I share the same experience as @majordennisbloodnok hav...
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RE: Say hello and introduce yourself
I hope so, @toodles. It's not often that we see a situa...
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RE: Heat pump design review please: 5 kW Vaillant aroTHERM Plus heat pump
@jamespa many thanks, definitely i will give the pre...
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RE: Heat pump installation quotations
@jamespa I noticed that in the Heat Geek design consult...
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RE: Electricity price predictions
Good point, I do expect the bonus of putting my energy ...
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RE: Daikin ESPAltherma and Home Assistant installation
@bash, something we haven't touched on already relates ...
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RE: Air source heat pump roll call – what heat pump brand and model do you have?
Vaillant arotherm plus 12kW. Installed March 2025. Ex...
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