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@toodles Just checking with you. Did your batteries dump all their charge in the small hours of this morning please and then didn’t recharge until ...
@benson Agreed. I believe the COP gains with homely, if any, would be marginal vs a well set up weather comp. The only possible gains could be in the...
@benson I’d like to try. But for the Samsung, because it isn’t web enabled off the shelf, there is additional electronic hardware added to the outsid...
@benson But I have got a homely and I haven’t done anything to optimise it and I checked yesterday and my overall Feb COP was 4.2 and March COP to dat...
@toodles The TOU functionality is tricky, but for those without a battery and on a tight budget I can see a little bit of overheating a reasonable ...
@johnnyb It depends what mode you are running on and what tariff you tell it you are on and how the machine learning has decided to heat your house fr...
@johnnyb I’m not saying that you are wrong. However, assuming you haven’t changed the target temp or target time and your flow rate has remained co...
@toodles in my case a little knowledge is useless, but I understand that when the pumps operate at low speed (or constant speed) there is a propensity...
@toodles We also have a base load of about 300W too. But fundamentally they are different profiles, mine is slightly oscillating up and down, but not ...
@toodles out of interest I took a screenshot, first thing before the variable house loads started, of the PW home demand. You can clearly see the ...
@toodles Hopefully you won’t be importing much energy over the next 6 months. Yes, the world is a mess and getting worse at an accelerated speed....
@toodles Quite properly, I evict myself from the house if I want to smoke. So, I get to stand near the outdoor unit more frequently than is good for m...
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RE: Heat Geek mini store vs pump size
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RE: Who's your electricity provider and what's your tariff?
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@tomtheheatingengineer, thank you, and welcome to the f...
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RE: HeatGeek vs Octopus surveys: puzzling disparity - any ideas why?
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