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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: Jokes and fun posts about heat pumps and renewables
Plenty of butts 'round 'ere but
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RE: HeatGeek vs Octopus surveys: puzzling disparity - any ideas why?
Have either quote provided room by room heat loss calcu...
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RE: Heat Pump Servicing & Maintenance – Good Value or Rip-Off?
@old_scientist if you are going DIY then you may wan...
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RE: Indevolt Batteries UK Support & Info Thread
After a short while that was followed by the 'power war...
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RE: Samsung heat pump - data cable issue
That's well done. Cable is the correct type (LIYCY = 2x...
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RE: Electricity price predictions
I agree, we will find out at the next budget whether th...
By Old_Scientist , 3 days ago
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RE: Missing flow temperature in Heat Geek proposal
@editor I went through HG website, so should be ok for ...
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Who did the Freedom Heat Pump cloud server and what did...
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RE: Who's your electricity provider and what's your tariff?
Reading between the lines of what octopus are doing wit...
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RE: Air to air bus grant installer anywhere
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I hope it goes ok, Hon can be hard to set up IF the sof...
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@clockworks Hi, So there is a big difference between st...
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@editor wellvery comprehensive answer. I will get all i...
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RE: Advice on my Heat Pump Journey: Old Stone Built Detached Cottage
all good advice I will follow this up
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