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The compressor is brazed to copper pipes - brazing is basically much higher temperature soldering, joining copper pipes together with a dissimilar met...
@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...
@transparent Our area is leafy suburbs, all originally 4 bed 1960s build houses with initially 60A single phase underground cables. I’m afraid I ...
@catherinehh Is weather compensation active? While you require on average a lower heating power when it is say 10C outdoors, without weather compe...
@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...
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...
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...
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 - ...
@iancalderbank The code is entirely running in a loop; it measures flow rates, temperatures, then electicity meter pulses, then does it again. The...
@squeakysim The monitoring is all my own 😎 Two off +/-0.1C temperature sensors, each in copper "pockets", and a flow meter, and a little embedded...
I agree that it's unlikely that with the present electricity/gas cost ratio that heatpumps are "financial rational", which is the premise of the link....
Mixergy tanks I believe work by forcing statification - hot water is pushed into the top of the tank, and there is a clear hot / cold divide line. In...
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