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@transparent in a few words I would say "I am not surprised" i refuse to comment any further as I am receiving FIT payments and don't want to have tha...
@transparent My take on this; whilst you are correct about most of the balancing being done right at the top end of the charge cycle this applies to c...
@transparent Balancing cell voltages isn't the most critical feature, although it is often cited. I feel that the safety features are somewhat more i...
@transparent Thank you for that, like I said I hope it would never happen today and people are used to seeing panels now. The planning regs have chang...
@transparent It might be useful to members to be aware that if you have 48V available do not be tempted to tap into the battery for different voltages...
@transparent As far as I am aware there are no regulations restricting the use of any Low voltage installations, as general rule of thumb the lower th...
Thank you all for your responses, I too am against regulation that is restrictive, generally regulation should be about protecting or standardising, n...
@transparent Thank you for that, I am personally not in favour of ELV unless already available. Each conversion costs energy and power supplies have t...
@bontwoody the old fashioned relays are the best way to interface different systems, simple and make diagnosis of problems a synch. If using them it's...
@editor hello and thank you for your kind words, so sorry I am very late replying I couldn't reset my password as the reset email came to my junk fold...
Hello all, I am a self taught self installer I bought an air source heat-pump from china and set about plumbing from scratch. it has been a very ambit...
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