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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...
@jvs197 I suggest that you experiment with your present gas system, so that you can determine how well an ashp could work. It’s what I did before i...
We swapped to a HP 2 years ago, after running a regular gas boiler for many years. We have smart meters, so could correlate daily gas kWh with the out...
s The rule of thumb I’ve seen has been total yearly kWh/2000 gives the peak power in kW. It works for us- but would give 36000/2000=18kW. Are you ...
Yes, probably it does matter, depending on the rest of your system. If you have a heat exchanger, it's likely using it the wrong way around, which wi...
There are so many insurance options these days, which I believe most people would be better off without. Bike, phone, washing m/c, heating system, pe...
Once you've cut out the compressor, will there be swarf in the cut pipes? If it's stored badly, will the sump oil get water in it which turns it to a...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but is heatmiser an on/off thermostat type controller? Can you describe your GSHP a bit more: Make / model /power? Is it...
I can't think of a single reason why you would want to operate a counterflow heat exchanger the wrong way around, the inefficient parallel way, in a h...
@transparent I'm "listening" eagerly to this thread too! We have old 4kWp FIT PV with an MCS form, and I now have dno approval for an additional, ...
@cathoderay Apols for badgering on this topic about other controls, but do you really have just have weather compensation only running ? As I under...
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RE: GivEnergy inverter tripping due to over-voltage?
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