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@toodles The chap you were corresponding with wasn’t called HAL 9000 by any chance 😉 Near impossible to tell nowadays.
@toodles it’s a big vague, other than a minimum of £12 month they don’t tell you by how much they will reimburse you. The axel scheme gives you a £25 ...
@old_scientist It’s happened to me before, they do backdate so be careful that in modifying your operational strategy you don’t get retrospectively pe...
@old_scientist mine behaved in my best financial interests except one error. The battery discharged down to to my set limit of 5% during 4-7pm as e...
@toodles Yes. That is a more pleasant metaphor than the one I had in my head. Of a medieval torture device that is positioned on the fleshy parts of t...
@toodles For years I assumed they were tender hooks although I’ve no idea what I imagined a hook that was tender would be, perhaps one without a barb.
@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...
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