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Old_Scientist

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Joined: Jun 16, 2024
Last seen: Mar 5, 2026

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RE: Who's your electricity provider and what's your tariff?

@toodles Indeed. On a tariff such as IOF where import and export prices are the same, the only thing that really matters is the difference between con...

8 months ago

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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers

RE: Who's your electricity provider and what's your tariff?

Thanks @toodles for the update. My PW3 is due to be installed this week, and I'm going to give IOF a go. Accepting that Octopus will fully cycle the...

8 months ago

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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers

RE: Commencing on an ASHP Installation Process

Congratulations on having your system up and running. I just wanted to check with you the above image, as I'm not sure if that is the final installe...

8 months ago

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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)

RE: Solar to power Heat Pump for DHW

Wow, how big is your heat pump that it is pulling 6kW during a DHW cycle? I suppose if it's a 16kW model, and it is requiring a LWT of 60C to achieve ...

8 months ago

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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)

RE: Commencing on an ASHP Installation Process

Good luck, hope it goes well. I forgot to mention, but as we'd already had our old radiators removed, in preparation I went round beforehand and pai...

8 months ago

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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)

RE: Who's your electricity provider and what's your tariff?

I don't (yet), but my PW3 is due to be installed shortly and I was planning on using NetZero for automations. However, at $69.99/year, I feel that wil...

9 months ago

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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers

RE: My misgivings about installing ASHP and solar panels via the ECO4 scheme...

Some thoughts from me, having been through the ECO4 process: Firstly, there are literally hundreds of companies out there trying to sign you up to E...

9 months ago

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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)

RE: Commencing on an ASHP Installation Process

Yes, it's "doable" if everything goes to plan, they arrive early and all the correct kit also arrives early and you have a good hard working team of i...

9 months ago

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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)

RE: Commencing on an ASHP Installation Process

Our ASHP installation was originally scheduled for 2 days and ended up going into a third day. We had a two man team of installers (who were brilliant...

9 months ago

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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)

RE: My misgivings about installing ASHP and solar panels via the ECO4 scheme...

For the sake of balance, I will share that our ECO4 experience with having an ASHP, solar panels and internal wall insulation fitted were all very pos...

9 months ago

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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)

RE: I don't need any heating in the summer. How do I turn my Samsung heat pump off?

Great stuff. As you are on a cheap overnight EV tariff, I would schedule for the hot water to come on for the last hour of that cheap rate time period...

9 months ago

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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)

RE: Forum updates, announcements & issues

Things certainly feel more snappy today. Great job @editor

9 months ago

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