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@jp1 I joined twitter just for this, and sent: @OctopusEnergy "Joined Octopus late Aug with a function smart meter from Ovo, hoping to use ...
These guys have "deaerators" that can remove microbubbles that are left flowing around a system, might improve matters. They also sell exotic "vacuum...
here's an interesting utube concerning EVE 280 battery compression: It's a short vid, well worth watching - I learned: The ideal cell compr...
I'm watching this with interest! The Seplos boxes with 16 cells installed they weigh around 100kg, so should really be built in-situ, which really pu...
We have had one radiator plumbed in an odd way in parallel to the heatsource, some 10 years ago. We had a "regular" boiler at the time, with a pump f...
Totally agree, COP should be the headline information when looking at how the heatpump is performing. It is hard to measure accurately though - for h...
We did get on the V2H ‘trial’. I use quotes, as I think the trial was for new entrants; we had the indra box already. The process was: Change prov...
A 2000 litre thermal store would cost around £2k, and store a similar amount of heat - you’d get 100kWh from 90C down to 40C. The warmstone operates a...
I noticed the guy from off-grid garage liked this balancer + disconnector = BMS. That is, in addition to active balancing, it detects over or under v...
@gurugurugravity Unless you have an extremely unusual reason for a damp house, a dehumifier may be an issue. Unusual reasons include a new house d...
@Oswiu I think that assuming your internal temperature is 22C (you said it was hot) then I think the radiators couple as: (Temp_flow - Temp_air) /...
@Oswiu I assume your boiler is smarter than our old one, and has a display! I’d encourage you to check it somehow versus the calibrated payment gas...
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