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@mattengineer It follows the load quite well. If the Indra box is "on", then the smart meter tends to read between -50W and +50W, except in the ch...
@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) /...
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@drei has just published his full story here for anyone...
By Mars , 16 minutes ago
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RE: What crazy nonsense are inverter limits and why are they imposed?
I think there may be a little confusion in the wording ...
By Old_Scientist , 4 hours ago
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I should clarify that the FoxESS web interface is not l...
By Old_Scientist , 5 hours ago
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RE: A Customer's Lessons Learnt from a Heat Pump Installation in a Large House
Previous was vented and I needed a shower pump and a ve...
By JamesPa , 5 hours ago
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RE: Mitsu Wireless Controller and MelCloud
@robs Hi Rob, At the end of a note to Mitsu UK, thank...
By DavidAlgarve , 22 hours ago
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RE: Why so many sigenergi installer recommendations?
@adamk Tesla is a great option, it’s also one we instal...
By SAEnergy , 1 day ago
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RE: Rodents! A word of warning for heat pump owners
Hradline in Telegraph: Brace for plague of rats after s...
By Tim441 , 2 days ago
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RE: Flexi-Orb Heat Pump Scheme: A Game-Changer for the UK's Heat Pump Industry
As a potential heat pump customer, it would be good to ...
By Temperature_Gradient , 2 days ago
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RE: Octopus replacing the fixed 15p/kWh export rate with a market tracking one
@trbob I have just extracted the details for Agile Expo...
By Toodles , 2 days ago
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RE: Heat Pump Books For Beginners – Bodge Buster & From Zero To Heat Pump Hero
The Ultimate Guide to Heat Pumps is less than a month a...
By Mars , 2 days ago
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RE: Air source heat pump roll call – what heat pump brand and model do you have?
@editor Hi Mars, We have just installed a Grant Aerona...
By GrahamF , 3 days ago
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RE: Sanity check please. Battery storage and inverter sizing.
There are MCS guidelines about how close to the edge/ri...
By Old_Scientist , 3 days ago
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RE: Balancing financial efficiency and comfort using the Octopus Cosy tariff
I estimated our usage on the following basis. The mos...
By Old_Scientist , 3 days ago
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@editor Something changed in this last 12 months, they ...
By ASHP-BOBBA , 4 days ago
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RE: Ecodan & MelCloud scheduling
I put the above question to Mitsu UK at the sme time as...
By DavidAlgarve , 4 days ago
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RE: Does anyone have experience of a smart water meter?
Just to give a sense of scale, I've used the CCW water ...
By Majordennisbloodnok , 5 days ago
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RE: Powerwall 3 or Myenergi or something else?
We have a Tesla Powerwall 3, recently installed, so I m...
By Old_Scientist , 6 days ago
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RE: Mitsubishi PAR-WT60R-E Wireless Controller installation
@morgan They have been paired once but it was thought b...
By DavidAlgarve , 7 days ago
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RE: Isolating the system for a planned power cut
A great many ground-mounted local substation transforme...
By Transparent , 7 days ago