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RE: Compute heat loss from energy used

@sussex-greenish Welcome to the forum. I think your logic is correct, but I'm happy to defer to the expertise of others if not! From your experime...

11 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Is your gut better than Math

@aaron Welcome to the forum. With a heat loss of 5.1kW for the main part of the house, I'm not surprised you are seeing cycling as the weather is cu...

11 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Agile: average import cost vs other tariffs?

I switched from Agile to Cosy on 12th Dec, when the stupidly high prices started. We currently have a heat pump and no battery storage (do have solar ...

11 months ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: Octopus intelligent Go, IOG. maximising slots

That will depend on your usage and storage capacity. IOG has a super cheap rate overnight, so if you can charge your battery overnight and then use it...

11 months ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: GivEnergy 2025 forthcoming batteries and inverters

That all sounds very much like the Tesla Powerwall 3, but with slightly higher figures so the GivEnergy always comes out top in a game of Top Trumps (...

11 months ago
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Energy Storage
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RE: Samsung Gen6 with no external thermostat

I have a Samsung Gen6 and mine was installed with a 3rd party room thermostat, so that is what I use. I find it very convenient. However, I know you...

11 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Solar inverters - where does the energy go when clipping?

@robl thank you, makes perfect sense, and my wife is relieved to know the inverter isn't sat in the loft smouldering due to excess heat because of an ...

11 months ago
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Solar Photovoltaic (PV)
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RE: Grant Aerona3 13kW Noisy pipes after balancing

Regarding noise, we run at fixed flow rates of between 24-26L/min (so similar to you), and have a new system with 22mm copper runs, branching off to 1...

11 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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Solar inverters - where does the energy go when clipping?
11 months ago
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Solar Photovoltaic (PV)
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RE: Solar for heating DHW

Similar situation here, although slightly lower numbers as I have a 12kW ASHP and a 3kW solar inverter. In the summer*, I try to limit the power dra...

11 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Heat Pump starting current

I have seen mentioned two things that may help alleviate the effects of defrost cycles. The first is having sufficiently large thermal mass within t...

11 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Investment or not Solar/Battery instllation

I'm not sure I follow. I have a 12kW Samsung ASHP, and starting from cold, which we do most mornings as we often switch off overnight, the system norm...

11 months ago
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Solar Photovoltaic (PV)
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