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@jamespa Normally, we have rainwater in our water butts and I use this (much softer than our mains water and fewer ‘additional’ trace elements I suspe...
Whilst cleaning some very dusty and dirty solar panels this morning, I got to thinking… Q. Why are solar panels covered with a grid pattern? A. To...
@jamespa Years ago, I used to attend location recording sessions armed with an ‘Adaptaplug’ so that I could connect to the mains socket in a church or...
@old_scientist And for ‘electricity only’ consumers, there is a very delectable skin on this particular custard (yes, I really like the skin on custar...
Just an observation regarding the Joule insulated 200ltr unvented hot water tank, is this tank designed with heat pumps in mind? Though probably suffi...
@jeff I am well aware of the riskiness of such investments and have risked no more than I can afford to lose - but I would rather not for all that...
@jamespa When I contracted a company to install my solar energy system and battery, I was allocated a ‘surveyor’ to ascertain the best arrangement of ...
@transparent I wonder, how many heads might you be able to knock together at once?😉 Toodles.
@bobflux Just a thought, has a terminating resistor been fitted on the network cabling? The purpose of this resistor is to reduce the ‘noise’ in the s...
@avenir Looks grey to me. Toodles.
@transparent I think that all parties should have been aware of the need for reactive power and stability of frequency etc. Ripple Energy ought to hav...
@transparent But, But should they not have known about the need for stability provided by Reactive Power support at that time? Surely the laws of phys...
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RE: HeatGeek vs Octopus surveys: puzzling disparity - any ideas why?
Have either quote provided room by room heat loss calcu...
By Old_Scientist , 10 hours ago
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RE: Jokes and fun posts about heat pumps and renewables
@jamespa Normally, we have rainwater in our water butts...
By Toodles , 2 days ago
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RE: Heat Pump Servicing & Maintenance – Good Value or Rip-Off?
@old_scientist if you are going DIY then you may wan...
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RE: Indevolt Batteries UK Support & Info Thread
After a short while that was followed by the 'power war...
By JamesPa , 2 days ago
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RE: Samsung heat pump - data cable issue
That's well done. Cable is the correct type (LIYCY = 2x...
By bobflux , 2 days ago
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RE: Electricity price predictions
I agree, we will find out at the next budget whether th...
By Old_Scientist , 2 days ago
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RE: Missing flow temperature in Heat Geek proposal
@editor I went through HG website, so should be ok for ...
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Who did the Freedom Heat Pump cloud server and what did...
By Mars , 3 days ago
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RE: Who's your electricity provider and what's your tariff?
Reading between the lines of what octopus are doing wit...
By JamesPa , 3 days ago
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RE: Air to air bus grant installer anywhere
The through wall two hole ones have their place (listed...
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I hope it goes ok, Hon can be hard to set up IF the sof...
By Graham Hendra , 3 days ago
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@clockworks Hi, So there is a big difference between st...
By ASHP-BOBBA , 3 days ago
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@editor wellvery comprehensive answer. I will get all i...
By Keithb , 3 days ago
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RE: Advice on my Heat Pump Journey: Old Stone Built Detached Cottage
all good advice I will follow this up
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Heat of vaporization of water is 2.25 MJ/kg (0.625 kWh/...
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