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If you get windows replaced, then I think it's well worth getting low U value units in whatever the frames are. It's not simply 3G is better than 2G;...
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+)? ...
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RE: Failing heat pump system - seeking thoughts on a rebuild
@jamespa I think that's a good interim solution James. ...
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RE: Electricity price predictions
Community energy installations are a great idea, but th...
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RE: Can you help with our research: solar panels, EV chargers, home batteries, heat pumps?
I have signed up as well. @belsnugg could you outline ...
By JamesPa , 14 hours ago
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RE: New Vaillant aroTherm Plus in black - When will it come to the UK?
Ooh, heat pumps in neon blue wrap 🤣 🤣 &...
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@profzarkov Good to know in case it ever happens to me...
By bontwoody , 1 day ago
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RE: Are Octopuses Slowing Consumer Adoption of Heat Pumps?
I mean, is this surprising? The local installers in my ...
By Alex , 1 day ago
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@old_scientist sorry, I should have made it clear that ...
By GrahamF , 1 day ago
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RE: Mitsubishi Ecodan 11kw Defrosting Issue.
@thundermink can you provide photos to illustrate your ...
By Morgan , 1 day ago
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RE: Boiling Mad: Exposing Radiatorgate
Hi @Rob, I’d be more than happy to contribute. I have ...
By DREI , 1 day ago
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RE: Solar Power Output – Let’s Compare Generation Figures
@andris a great year - very happy with our system
By Profzarkov , 2 days ago
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RE: A Customer's Lessons Learnt from a Heat Pump Installation in a Large House
After our rather lengthy meander off piste, I thought I...
By GrahamF , 2 days ago
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RE: Midea ASHP – how to set weather compensation
@pash44pump - to collect the IAT/OAT data, can I sugges...
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RE: Ecodan software update. Real or scam?
@vinz86 Contact Mitsubishi and an engineer attends and ...
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@drei When I was in local government we were of cours...
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RE: Heat Pump SCOPs – The Truth Might Not Be What You Think
Sufficient system volume is also essential for ensuring...
By Old_Scientist , 3 days ago
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RE: Flexi-Orb Heat Pump Scheme: A Game-Changer for the UK's Heat Pump Industry
As someone who has suffered from a Heat Pump installati...
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RE: What crazy nonsense are inverter limits and why are they imposed?
I’ve also got a dual fuel Rangemaster. We originally ha...
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RE: Octopus tariffs - a quick comparison
@tim441 I’d agree wholeheartedly with that, with 2 x Po...
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