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@bontwoody Yes, it’s been nasty. Driving rain and sleet being blown into the front, and very cold air being blown in the other direction. There aren’t...
@westkent it’s that black tube that is cable tied over the outside of the rear of the evaporator fins, right? I have the tube but there’s no sensor ...
@westkent thanks. I don’t have one of those, so can’t be my problem. I’ve got a third party controller which uses local weather station data to do i...
@westkent Thanks. Do you remember what that sensor was called or it’s function please, as mine is doing some other weird stuff too that makes no sense...
@jamespa Luckily I have the whole process documented as I could see it had become a comedy of errors. The insulation measures were installed by a s...
@jamespa A minor update. The heat survey was repeated yesterday and turned out the heat loss in bedrooms was wildly inaccurate. The original survey...
@transparent Yep, they didn’t even mention it. When I reported the damage they made a big fuss and treated it as a huge emergency, which I didn’t u...
@toodles I think you are correct. I just popped to the garage and mine is 100A, don’t know why. When they were fitting my battery gateway to the meter...
@bash First come first served, until the substation threshold is reached and then they only provide G98 limits, that’s what the ENW network engineer t...
@majordennisbloodnok I’m not in the trade, but I’d heard somewhere that there were plans under consultation to rollout 3P supply to a junction box ...
@transparent Yes, but I went through and followed the correct procedures. If the procedures are wrong thats for the electrical engineers to remedy. I ...
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