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@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...
If you have a smart meter, you can get the information you need from it. Look back over the last year for the greatest daily gas used in kWh. Divide...
@heacol I believe that Kensa offer cooling, as an add on option. The Vaillant Geotherm mini (2.5kW heat) has it in by default I believe, so "just"...
@iancalderbank I think I read off the COP numbers wrongly from the graph in my last post- trying a bit harder, it's COP=4.2 down to 3.5 from a 5C D...
@iancalderbank @Jeff DT is just the temperature of flow-return, and Heatpumps only care about the flow temperature - if you would like a DT of 20C, ...
@iancalderbank Gas boilers can have a high DT as the efficiency of them is governed mostly by the return water temperature. So long as the return ...
@mattengineer We have 4kWp of solar, dno informed, about 9 years ago. PV is brilliant, if you haven't got, get as much as you can fit and the dno ...
Here's a 'scope plot of it working. Red is Voltage, Blue current on our mains tail, black is V*I. At the left hand side, there's very low real pow...
@mattengineer Yes, we had no trouble getting it changed to V2H. I emailed Indra, they asked me for confirmation that I owned the unit - I did, as ...
I really don't understand how something so simple could cost so much. I think "heat batteries" have a place - perhaps (a small unit) in a passive hou...
All being well, we'll have our gas meter taken out after this winter. Mrs RobL wants 2 heating seasons without gas before it's out to be sure to be s...
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Sorry I thought and meant to put 'may' in, but the diff...
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RE: Marvel Heating liquidation
@editor This is an important point. each winter, you...
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