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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...
I think as gas and oil boilers get phased out, low install cost heat storage solutions will seem too attractive on Octopus go - so I agree, Octopus wo...
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