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@chickenbig Neat install ! I've now seen a construction vid from Seplos of the 280L. They don't directly show the base while filling it with cel...
Cycling is pretty much always going to happen during mild weather. Heatpumps tend to only modulate down to 30% or so of their peak capability - and t...
The spec of the one I have is 100mOhms, and I can read on it the cap values it uses - they are 3x 6.3V 2200uF per channel. The total charge transferr...
I bought a Seplos Mason 280L kit. The instructions were not that great - I ended up "inventing" a couple of details that were not in the instructions...
@transparent Piccy as requested, a pic of a few cells showing active balancer attached with fuses. The fuses are actually 3.75A 75V self resetting...
This vid (off grid garage) talks about cell compression versus life. In a nutshell: you cannot stop cells expanding a mm or so when full- 300kg (3kN...
I did made a heat meter - I used the tsic716 sensor (tho the one you point at is a lot cheaper, and similar accuracy, which is great). I connected tw...
@Iancalderbank Your heatpump is likely to have a flow-return temperature of around 5degrees. So under most dhw circumstances, the tank will have be...
It's often the case that people crank up the thermostat as it gets colder outside. I think the most significant reason for this is that the external ...
That brown plastic box is our fibre to the home inlet box. It just seemed a bit neater to stick it in the old gas box. The gas used to go off to th...
We had our gas meter taken out by Octopus a few months ago. It’s a plastic pipe rising up, capped off with a metal cap. The bit ringed in red is the...
We heat our 10yr old solar tank with a gshp. It used to just heat the top coil with up to 55C flow, getting the water tank to ‘maybe’ 43C. In the No...
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