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Last seen: Sep 13, 2026
Yeah I've worked out the same for me - producing the same amount of heat that our ASHP is producing using our 20-year old gas boiler would be 40-50% m...
46kWh yesterday reported by the heat pump / MELcloud. That would have cost me approx £13.70. Using the reported consumption figures since it was ins...
I think there are some things that consumers/home owners need to educate themselves on, and some things that consumers can't/shouldn't be expected to ...
I've been thinking about this, because it was a really interesting point - what are my objectives and what things should I care about? Where I've land...
@editor We have two pumps that use ~35w each. The idle power consumption of the unit is also substantial I think. However, the "energy consumed" figur...
@oswiu Thanks Oswiu, I use the Home Assistant integration and have looked at pymelcloud as well (the HA integration uses pymelcloud iirc). Unfortunate...
Like you, I don't have MMSP and I don't have a "CoP" line on my MELcloud. However, if you use the developer tools on your browser to see the raw JSON ...
@knukes apologies, I didn't mean to suggest that the more money you make, the more irresponsible you are - I think everyone on this forum is among the...
We made a 95% reduction in consumption for £1.31 (0.56kwh or something like that). We were in the top 10% of reducers though so we get a bonus 1000 Oc...
The Heat Geek YouTube channel have released all their data on their own office's heat pump openly here:. You can see that their DeltaT is typically le...
This is what we're doing, yes. I'm also doing as @Derek-M suggested and raising the flow temperature during the day and using the thermal mass of the ...
Wow, I had no idea there was such a big error margin between the "real" time and the time that is used for the ToU tariff (I assumed there was some er...
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