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Savings - using Weather Compensation & Time of Use Tariffs
5 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Avoid the Heat Pump Villain: Why Low-Loss Headers and Buffers Can Sabotage Your Heat Pump's Efficiency

@jamespa measuring with clamp-on heating pipe thermometer? I see ebay/amazon has them around £6 or £7 .. Good enough?

5 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Avoid the Heat Pump Villain: Why Low-Loss Headers and Buffers Can Sabotage Your Heat Pump's Efficiency

I doubt I could get my weather compensation curve any lower so must conclude my buffer is not hurting me tooooo much. Certainly accept the main point ...

5 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Avoid the Heat Pump Villain: Why Low-Loss Headers and Buffers Can Sabotage Your Heat Pump's Efficiency

I wonder how much efficiency it really costs - if there is unnecessary mixing it results in higher return temps so a "saving" on the next heating. Cle...

5 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Octopus intelligent Go, IOG. maximising slots

IOG offering a lot of cheap daytime slots today. Despite cold, grey day. Car was unplugged and used this morning so maybe helped kick the additional...

5 months ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: Has anyone replaced an old ASHP with a new one?

@pressure very interesting read - thanks for posting. A lot of us will have such decisions in coming years. Hopefully mine is still 10 years away.. LG...

5 months ago
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RE: Getting the best out of a heat pump - is Homely a possible answer?

Model HM161MU33 installed 2020 Controller software 3.05.5a Not sure what's available via modbus. Will try and find out - thanks for input!

5 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Getting the best out of a heat pump - is Homely a possible answer?

This is now a very long thread. Not sure I've got the will to read it all as I guess some is overtaken with updates and changes. I've been offered a...

5 months ago
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RE: Not a good January? My heat pump used 840 KWh of electricity

@carpenterstation when I moved from fixed temps to weather compensation my annual usage dropped from about 8050kwh to 5800kwh. Huge saving .. especial...

5 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Octopus intelligent Go, IOG. maximising slots

@gary wow! That's really impressive. Good tips. I was at 12p on Agile last year. But I think I can make IOG work for me even if I pay the day rate f...

5 months ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: Octopus intelligent Go, IOG. maximising slots

@gary interesting - thanks. I've got a zappi. I have not been unplugging... so far. Any idea if necessary with zappi? Car is MG4 I'm using Wonde...

5 months ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: Not a good January? My heat pump used 840 KWh of electricity

I do not know Ecodans... but don't mind betting you SHOULD meddle! Join a user group or ask questions in this group. I see there are YouTube videos to...

5 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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