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As I understand it, if a slowly rising common mode DC is passed through the AC only type of RCDs then it will saturate the core in it, and then it can...
We have two car chargers with different plugs🙄 - a 32A one and a 10A one. The larger one is fed with 6mm2 cable from its own tiny CU (looks j...
I’ve seen our mains voltage very high on occasion, but I’ve never known anything happen due to it. We get 253V on a sunny day here - I looked in the ...
There’s no definitive magic deltaT for a heatpump, just pragmatic ‘generally optimum’. If you put more power into the water pump, the deltaT will redu...
That 2.5% cost increase every degC corresponds to my home-made graph pretty accurately. I was confused by the graph above at first, but then I unders...
Technically I could perhaps be called a heat pump designer, having designed and built the one gshp system that has heated our home for 3 years. It’s ...
Why do panels get damaged if not connected? When they are normally in the sun, they get 800W/m^2 evenly distributed, and they warm up everywhere. S...
In the solar panels. On a nice sunny day, a square metre of panels would get 1kW from the sun. Of this we might expect 200W of electical power if...
We had our gas meter removed too by Octopus, for free. It took the guy 20 minutes to do - he turned off the incoming gas lever in our cabinet, remove...
I notice on a pic on page 2 what looks like heatpump gubbins (buffer, tank, pump, pipes) in a cold ventilated loft? How much insulation is there in ...
As the boiler is just on/off at a given running temp, can you drop the temp down to the lowest acceptable, leaving it on most of the day (18hours+)? ...
Do your gas boiler have weather compensation? If so, enabling it will improve efficiency. I assume the boiler is huge, and can operate at high power...
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