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There's another technology option, sat between A2A and A2W which is a hybrid of both which looks quite attractive if it takes off and becomes more wid...
Risk based - does a particular activity/product pose a significant risk to people, in terms of harm, requiring regulation to bring that risk down to a...
I'm not convinced that quite captures the problem because we do have a lot of regulation, we've got volumes of Building Regulations with reams of requ...
Yes, which is important because it demonstrates the hardware has the essential safety functions. Not sure I agree about your comment on the RCD r...
The EcoFlow micro inverters, the smaller 600W and 800W variants which are used for these kind of balcony solar applications, are listed as compliant w...
It depends on the specific topic or problem, but many of the problems are foreseeable and were foreseen, but politicians and civil servants ploughed o...
I suspect part of the problem is that in some areas, particularly energy, civils servants and politicians are increasingly going beyond the limits of ...
That's it - when the situation demands it, how quickly can a good and well configured A2W system, driven hard, get the house back up to temperature? ...
So how far in advance of returning home, do you need to turn it back on to recover the temperature - what sort of temperature rise can it achieve, wha...
But if you got home and found the house cold, for whatever reason, how long does it take for your heat pump to heat your house up to 20 deg C from col...
Because there's situations where it is needed. You do want to get the house warm quickly when your plans change and you come home early or unexpectedl...
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Are you creating a whole new category for A2A?
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RE: 7.5kW Heat Loss, But Quoted a 10kW Midea. No Re-Pipe, No Buffer Tank. Does This Add Up?
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