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RE: Seplos Mason DIY Kit - Ancillaries - Advice

I applied online to Sunsynk to be a user. Once you have user name and password, you can request a status upgrade - I chose "installer", which means I...

2 years ago
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RE: A beginner's journey into DIY home energy storage - no solar!

Our battery is almost charged now - It's had 2A continuously for 4 days, so about 200Ah going into each cell. Now they are fuller, discrepancies are ...

2 years ago
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RE: Seplos Mason DIY Kit - Ancillaries - Advice

@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...

2 years ago
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RE: Heat pumps and on/off working - starting to quantify it

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...

2 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: A beginner's journey into DIY home energy storage - no solar!

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...

2 years ago
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RE: Seplos Mason DIY Kit - Ancillaries - Advice

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...

2 years ago
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RE: A beginner's journey into DIY home energy storage - no solar!

@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...

2 years ago
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RE: A beginner's journey into DIY home energy storage - no solar!

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...

2 years ago
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RE: A Beginner's Guide to Heat Pump Monitoring Reloaded (v2)

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...

2 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: COP for DHW using a heat pump

@Iancalderbank Your heatpump is likely to have a flow-return temperature of around 5degrees. So under most dhw circumstances, the tank will have be...

2 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Heat pumps and on/off working - starting to quantify it

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 ...

2 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Smart meter installation – seamless or a potential nightmare?

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...

2 years ago
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