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@jamespa Sorry, I think we're at crossed purposes here. I'm was referring to the Octopus rates, and the recent announcement regarding Intelligent Go,...
I've not heard anything about this, as yet. I get the 15p export rate currently, and haven't heard anything about this changing, albeit perhaps that ...
This only really applies if the end user is someone who was 'gaming' the smart charging aspect to get cheap electricity for more than 6 hours per day,...
@majordennisbloodnok I think the HPDHD diagnosis may be accurate.For information, this is the 4 week old post where I included some observations of th...
I'm a hobbyist beekeeper with a few colonies in the back garden, the education for which was initially self-taught via YouTube videos and books during...
Logically, I'll fall into that category so the natural step would be to wait for it for the functionality to become available to do this.However, I su...
I've had a quick read through it, and the immediate take-away from it was that the operating mode will show as being in constant flow, rather than cur...
@ciocoiu-alexandru I can't provide the same level of diagnostic insight as others, such as @jamespa, can but I'm aware that MelCloud will only provide...
I think it would be a good education / experiment to give this a go, as I can see exactly the behaviour that @f1p describes in the current WC cycles, ...
I've got a bit of time to draft something today, so the 'future post' might as well come shortly after the previous one!To provide a bit more context ...
Just for complete clarity on this, the comment quoted wasn't intended to imply any criticism of the dongle, which I think is a brilliant piece of kit....
I prepared this analysis for a post on another forum (a football one!) for some people curious about heat pumps, and then subsequently realised that i...
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