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At 2 kWh its either breaking the physics of sensible heat or you are a tyrant and forcing your good lady wife to shower with a thimble of tepid water!...
@toodles Difficult to tell at this low resolution, but looks like the heating cycle is about 3-4 hours and about 2-3kW, so I make it very approx about...
@toodles That’s economical, about the same as an immersion heater for 90 mins. I was expecting it to chew through an entire battery at least.
@toodles How much power does your phase changing water heater thingy use in winter?
@old_scientist It did work fine with cosy over the winter, although we have the larger version of your heat pump I only exceeded the battery capacity ...
@toodles He’s certainly guilty of taking a great formula and milking it to death in later years, the expat Russian Jews have an innate habit and a tal...
@toodles Success should be savoured in this vile weather, opportune moment to crack open an ice cold beer and pop the Philip Glass on the gramophone.
@old_scientist I wonder if the reason I’m not seeing the AI work as I’d have expected is that I did all my tariff entry manually? Swings and roundabou...
(I didn’t know you could now import tariffs, does that mean I could automate Agile without the need to use a third party app, if I wanted to?) sorry, ...
@toodles Reboot it, that solves 99% of computing gremlins.
@toodles Is it because storm watch has been activated and storms are active at the moment. I can edit mine ok and have stormwatch off.
@toodles Sorry, I was always on IOF when it coincided with any of these flexible demand services. It all happened with any intervention. The only way ...
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