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@toodles Wouldn’t want you to have a sleepless night over it!
@old_scientist I will tell you how mine behaved today, all I did to set it up was input the tariff data. My problem is that I get impatient when it ...
@toodles That’s strange, on IOF mine never imported a bean at peak.I do remember, rather like the machine learning for the homely, it did take a few d...
@toodles But that’s where your batteries come in, to make up the deficit. You have 2 if I remember correctly, so should be very easy for you. Isn’t th...
It’s not as lucrative as IOF, I’d estimate about 20% less, but providing you aren’t having to charge an EV (or other high evening loads) it does work ...
@old_scientist The rates seem ok too, 29.22 peak export here in the NW. It was only today, so we might get better news soon with IOF, I switched th...
@toodles FYI flux is back. Think it was today.
@springswood The most flexible and cost effective way of manage solar gain is via those metallic black out roller blinds on the south facing aspect...
External shading is best, but a light coloured or reflective curtain is still going to reduce solar gain by about a third as some of the radiation is...
@etchedpixels A few warmish days or a bit of snow and the country falls apart. We’d be so screwed if there ever was a war, the Russkies are out in ...
@majordennisbloodnok evapoative cooling in the summer, it works very well. The plants transpire and whatever the substrate is dries off in the sun....
@majordennisbloodnok Yes, it sounds a recipe for Aspergillus Niger, didn’t think about the underfloor copper. The Swiss in their usual wisdom banned A...
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