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@heat-pump-newbie We have a Vent Axia Sentinel Kinetic Plus BH. Which I recommend, had it maybe 8 years, never gone wrong. It has a kitchen extra...
@derek-m For older heatpumps or fridges that don't have an inverter, starting up the compressor is quite stressful, the unit literally twists on th...
@cathoderay Often these days you can borrow a thermal camera, lots of organisations have them. Eg. Cambridge Carbon Footprint will lend one out fo...
Bear with me on this…. Most base things we measure are quantities, not rates… Miles, kg, apples, bananas. The rate for miles is then in miles per hou...
@chickenbig You can borrow a thermal camera from Cambridge Carbon Footprint, free:-). They offer training courses too, free:-). I’m in Cambridge,...
@heat-pump-newbie Yes, just as you say it’s terrible with metal surfaces. You can sometimes program in the emissivity, I think ‘mine’ defaults to ...
@editor I use my companies Flir camera - I think it's E40, or something like that. It was pricey (£5k), but that was ages ago, they're all much ch...
I remember listening to a keynote talk in a conference by Renault about 5 years ago, where they said the same thing - that the future of EV cars invol...
@Transparent I did see the Cenex report, and yes that is the trial we are on. For me the report lacked in engineering detail about CO2 saved due to...
We have a V2G wallbox, for our leaf, on a trial with Ovo. So far as I’m aware, there are just a few small scale trial V2G to date similar to ours, us...
We have 4kWp of (mcs) solar, and subsequently a V2G unit by Indra for which there is a G99 A1-1 form stating the overall export is <16A per phase, ...
Hi Alan Do you have an EPC, does that agree with the 45MWh/year heating + DHW? Has your electricity consumption been similar after the units wer...
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RE: Where heat loss surveys seem to go against practical reality
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RE: How Accurate Is My DIY Heat Loss Calculation?
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