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I honestly would not wish to use this as a basis for making a decision on any new purchase in the future other than to indicate a list of installation...
@editor personally would like to see an in depth poll that has ratings (say 1 -10) for each.... across a range of questions. Perhaps 10 or so questio...
@editor OK! Inevitably most homeowners will only have experience of one installation so I'm not sure how much balance there was? Or is it more "most...
Will there be more analysis/comparisons of results?
@downfield octoprice also offers comparisons using own data and also allows you to play with "Load Shifting Visualizer" because most people woukd prob...
@cathoderay many, many thanks for the input and advice. I think it's enough to push and inspire me to have a go! Will not be quick I suspect but wil...
@cathoderay thanks for all the useful comments & thoughts. Yes, current data from LG is minimal. They have an expensive WiFi dongle that connect...
Good reminder on EPC energy forecast. Our EPC was done for ashp purposes to get the RHI grant so was done with reasonably detailed measurements. ...
@cathoderay sadly LG heat pumps of my vintage have very poor info extracts. I think they're a bit better now and capable of integration with 3rd party...
the cost quoted above is for imports only. So net cost is approx £900 export at risk of cut to tariff but not much I can do about that! Another wa...
@mikef interesting! As mentioned .. from info in LG user group it does reduce cycling and output. But I don't use it myself as my heat pump seems a...
On LG ashp they have a "silent mode" that operates at reduced power (intended to reduce noise at night) and some users use successfully to reduce cycl...
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