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RE: Is Your Broadband Router the Weak Link in Your High-Tech Home?

Quite, yes it's a disaster waiting to happen and just extends the nationally sensitive equipment map. Smart meters should never have had remote shut...

2 months ago
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Your Home
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RE: Is Your Broadband Router the Weak Link in Your High-Tech Home?

I have been working on network resilience for a while. I use my own router/NAT/firewall device, a separate switch with POE+ that drives a WiFi acces...

2 months ago
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Your Home
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RE: What crazy nonsense are inverter limits and why are they imposed?

@toodles its easier to clean up afterwards too 😁 Truly one of the best items we bought for a long time.

2 months ago
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Energy Storage
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RE: What crazy nonsense are inverter limits and why are they imposed?

For best results with induction hobs use stainless steel or cast iron cookware. Our (admittedly pricey) induction hob comes with a test program that ...

2 months ago
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Energy Storage
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RE: What crazy nonsense are inverter limits and why are they imposed?

While I won't try to over-ride anyone's personal choices, one of my major considerations for getting an ASHP is air quality and safety. Part of that...

2 months ago
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Energy Storage
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RE: Heat Pump SCOPs – The Truth Might Not Be What You Think

Is that heat loss, or maximum output of the ASHP? Understand they should be fairly close in a good system, but both vary by outside temperatures.

2 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Electricity price predictions

Community energy installations are a great idea, but the public are made afraid by the press, so its unlikely to happen. Hoping to be proven wrong!

2 months ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: Electricity price predictions

It's windy down South today, which means our electricity is dirty and expensive because most of the wind turbines are elsewhere.

2 months ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: Octopus tariffs - a quick comparison

I'm on Tracker at the moment and intend to remain on it for the first year of ASHP running so I have the best idea of cost comparison. To me Cosy se...

2 months ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: Electricity price predictions

@lucia I think my point was even if it is true, the interconnection is still valuable for both nations, and any scary stories are to be put into conte...

2 months ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: Electricity price predictions

Two nuclear plants extended a further year into 2028. While I'm not a fan of nuclear in principle, sweating the assets we already have seems reasonab...

2 months ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: Electricity price predictions

Seems a lease to a 3rd party to place a battery inside the boundary would solve that, but I'm sure there are "reasons" why that "cannot" be done. Pur...

2 months ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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