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Joined: Mar 23, 2022
Last seen: Dec 4, 2025

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RE: Say hello and introduce yourself

@gutoffowc It sounds like it needs more than recalibrating. Perhaps the original installers? We have a vent axia sentinel kinetic BH plus, it ha...

3 years ago

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Introductions, Forum Rules & Updates

RE: Turning your heat pump off

Here’s an example of a mid certified meter- if you have a spare slot in your consumer unit, it’s an easy install for a sparky, split core so just clip...

3 years ago

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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)

RE: 10.5kW unit that needs a new compressor

The compressor is brazed to copper pipes - brazing is basically much higher temperature soldering, joining copper pipes together with a dissimilar met...

3 years ago

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Ground Source Heat Pump (GSHPs)

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

@transparent We have a 100A fuse now, and 25mm^2 tails. It was originally a 60A fuse. I think the cable into our property was installed during ho...

3 years ago

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Energy Storage

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

@transparent Our area is leafy suburbs, all originally 4 bed 1960s build houses with initially 60A single phase underground cables. I’m afraid I ...

3 years ago

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Energy Storage

RE: 2 heat pumps - 1 as a slave

@catherinehh Is weather compensation active? While you require on average a lower heating power when it is say 10C outdoors, without weather compe...

3 years ago

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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)

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

@transparent What I asked for, and what I hope they think is happening too, is that we can consume whatever we like up to 100A, and that the overal...

3 years ago

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Energy Storage

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

We have just had permission to fit an 8kW Sunsynk hybrid inverter from UKPN. We have a single phase supply, 100A fuse, existing 4kWp PV with existin...

3 years ago

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Energy Storage

RE: Questions about yearly heat pump maintenance

There’s usually a survey, to check if the boiler/heating works, but it’s written as ‘can’t check’ unless it’s actually running when there’s a flying v...

3 years ago

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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)

RE: Heat pump and a solar diverter. Is it logical?

iBoost (and other diverters) are tricky to make work well with home batteries. If you have a home battery, you are likely to use a smart tariff - ...

3 years ago

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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)

RE: Octopus Energy Heat Pump Quote

@iancalderbank The code is entirely running in a loop; it measures flow rates, temperatures, then electicity meter pulses, then does it again. The...

3 years ago

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