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RE: Octopus Intelligent Go Test Charge

I have an ohme commando plug charger, and I remember the test charge was a hassle with IO go. The smets 1 smart meter we have was stated as an issue ...

1 year ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: Is mine bigger than yours? Ambient level of consumption.

150W average overnight - in order that’ll be: fridgefreezer, mvhr, ftth router, water softener, loads of standby stuff. There’s no standby stuff tha...

1 year ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: Single vs. three phase for heat pump, EV and appliances

We’re all elec too, and on a 100A single phase fuse. I haven’t considered changing it to 3phase - it would be simple though to fit even more PV ...

1 year ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: DIY solar upgrade - Considering adding more panels

I made supports out of recycled plastic lumber, aluminium, and stainless screws for our flat epdm garage roof. The lumber is 40x40x3000mm from ‘filcr...

2 years ago
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Solar Photovoltaic (PV)
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RE: New Fogstar 15.5kWh upright solution

Our hybrid inverter is a sunsynk, and while it states the SOC monitored by the (Seplos mason) battery I’m pretty sure it uses its own voltage measurem...

2 years ago
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Energy Storage
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RE: Comparing & Evaluating the Efficiency of Gas Heating vs. ASHP Powered by Gas-Fired Electricity

‘Natural’ gas energy content is usually given at the Lower Heating Value (LHV). This value is not the total chemical energy, but assumes all water cr...

2 years ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: Placement of Samsung R290 ASHP

The choice of refrigerant is always a compromise. So far as I'm aware, they are generally: Poisonous / High GWP / ozone depleting / flammable / sup...

2 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Placement of Samsung R290 ASHP

Compared to having ‘natural’ gas piped continuously into a home -a permanent gas source, the tiny amount of r290 kept safely in a heatpump for many ma...

2 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Placement of Samsung R290 ASHP

I wanted to put our r290 gshp near a kitchen drain. And found to my dismay that it didn’t have a trap! Bit of a faff, but managed to swap it out for...

2 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: New Fogstar 15.5kWh upright solution

@ggw When the sunsynk is used in lithium % mode, it also still makes use of the basic voltage figures from the lead acid mode - these must be set corr...

2 years ago
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Energy Storage
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RE: New Fogstar 15.5kWh upright solution

@ggw I left ours in AGM volts mode for maybe 2 months, the adaption was automatic but slow. I did try and hurry it along by manually tweaking the A...

2 years ago
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Energy Storage
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RE: New Fogstar 15.5kWh upright solution

We have 304Ah batts too, but after letting the sunsynk auto detect to the size, it thinks they are vastly different to this. Our system now works ver...

2 years ago
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Energy Storage
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