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@ivanopinion I too was disappointed to see the comparatively low SCOP of 2.72; I would have expected the Octopus team to have come up with at least 3....
@mikeavison Perhaps I might add a few observations? I should declare they are my opinions only - they may be shared with others but please have a supp...
@ivanopinion Another consideration being that Cosy offers 2 x 3 hour intervals that are not evenly spread over the 24 hours thus leaving a larger lump...
Yes, you can be on Cosy and still export; there are two tariffs, Agile Export and Fixed export. The fixed export currently (pun, sorry) offers 15 penc...
@mch Quite So! Toodles.
@mikeavison Oh Dear! I hope your name wasn’t too brown and sticky! 😃Our hot water is handled separately by a Sunamp Thermino eP210; this is be...
@ivanopinion Though in my experience (for what they may be worth, if anything!) installers appear to have far more requests for installations than the...
@derek-m Frinstance, the Myenergi Eddi works to 15 minute increments - I don’t know if this works to tighter increments when twinned with a Zappi as I...
@derek-m Unless of course, their timers cannot cope with such fine resolutions! Regards, Toodles.
@mikeavison One observation I would like to mention: In the fully smart setting (that is using Smart+ and set to Agile from OE), I find that Homely wo...
@korwraith This suggests that it is a very large can of worms… Toodles.
What an interesting and intriguing subject! I understand that when gas powered turbines are used to generate electricity, the efficiency is ~40% which...
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RE: Big Changes Coming to Our Heat Pump System
You are too young, 50s-60s expression (or earlier?) whi...
By JamesPa , 11 minutes ago
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RE: Heat Pump Damage on install - useable or dealbreaker?
Definitely that one, more important than the fins proba...
By JamesPa , 16 minutes ago
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RE: Testing new controls/monitoring for Midea Clone ASHP
@benson - looks like good work, and thanks for posting ...
By cathodeRay , 37 minutes ago
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RE: Electricity price predictions
@diverted-energy sounds like good tariff for you. Octop...
By JulianC , 12 hours ago
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RE: Who’s Caved and Switched the Heating On Already?
In the last week, the external temperature in south Man...
By GrahamF , 14 hours ago
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Ok. Two schools of thought. The first is to run the ...
By JamesPa , 14 hours ago
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@drei Willing as I am to help, I don't think I'm yet ...
By JamesPa , 15 hours ago
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RE: Is Your Broadband Router the Weak Link in Your High-Tech Home?
I hear you on the locality issue @transparent, and I ag...
By Scalextrix , 17 hours ago
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Selling 5 year old ASHP & Gas Combi Boiler - £590
Selling a 5-year-old Daikin Altherma Hybrid Air Source ...
By Paul G , 18 hours ago
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RE: Midea ASHP – how to set weather compensation
@pash44pump Referring to the problem of rooms with diff...
By Tasos , 19 hours ago
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RE: Help me keep the faith with my air source heat pump installation
Er true, it should have read l/hr!
By JamesPa , 20 hours ago
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@damon thanks. I will do as you suggest. Hopefully I wi...
By bontwoody , 2 days ago
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RE: Is a Valliant Inline 6kW heater a BUS buster?
Much of that is true in principle, but its not likely t...
By JamesPa , 3 days ago
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RE: Heat Pump Servicing & Maintenance – Good Value or Rip-Off?
@dgclimatecontrol I attach the responses from 2 potenti...
By pash44pump , 3 days ago
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RE: Buffers, hot water and cooling
@dgclimatecontrol thanks, that's helpful.
By JamesPa , 4 days ago
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RE: Failing heat pump system - seeking thoughts on a rebuild
I realise im overdue an update on my situation. first...
By Cleardene-ashp , 4 days ago
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RE: Replacing Worcester oil boiler with an ASHP
@toodles thanks. I was told by the engineer that this h...
By JulianC , 4 days ago
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RE: What crazy nonsense are inverter limits and why are they imposed?
A week later, I'm finally picking up this comment... ...
By Transparent , 4 days ago
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RE: COP is not the only measure of efficiency
We keep all our TRVs fully open using the whole house a...
By Old_Scientist , 4 days ago
