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RE: Battery system for cheaper heat pump running

I run our Daikin 8 kW/h monobloc 24/7 and have 2 x Tesla Powerwalls, i.e., 27 kW/h capacity. We effectively go ‘off-grid’ outside the 6 hours of Cosy ...

2 years ago
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Energy Storage
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RE: Avoid the Heat Pump Villain: Why Low-Loss Headers and Buffers Can Sabotage Your Heat Pump's Efficiency

@iancalderbank Amazon delivered the four thermometers today; shame that there was not insulating material interposed between the contact and the butto...

2 years 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

@iancalderbank Thank you Ian, Regards, Toodles.

2 years 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

@derek-m The system seems to be working well, we are warm and at approx. 450-500 W/h in this present warm weather, I feel all is goodness and light. (...

2 years 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

@iancalderbank Oh Ian, I couldn’t see a link or any product details - please could you detail the goods again? My current attempts have been with a no...

2 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: YouTube Presentation worth Looking At

I have found that Heatio have made a series of talks and I came across a second talk with Jim Bennett from Octopus Energy: The content: In the ...

2 years ago
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Well & Truly Off The Grid
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YouTube Presentation worth Looking At
2 years ago
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Well & Truly Off The Grid
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RE: Avoid the Heat Pump Villain: Why Low-Loss Headers and Buffers Can Sabotage Your Heat Pump's Efficiency

@derek-m Just for ‘fun’, I placed strips of matt black insulting tape on the four pipes to and from the LLH and used my IR thermometer to obtain these...

2 years 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

At the risk of being drummed out for heretical thoughts ( ;-))) ) No, I’m sure I wouldn’t be, … would I?! Suppose this LLH is losing some efficiency -...

2 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Rethinking Export Tariffs: A Step Towards Fair Compensation for Domestic Solar Energy Producers

‘Exports’ could and might well include previously imported grid energy stored in a battery until a more favourable time when export rates are an incen...

2 years ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: Navigating the World of Refrigerants In Heat Pumps: A Guide for Homeowners

@hughf Very happy with the performance achieved; when we were experiencing -6 or -7 degrees C. OAT a week or so back, our desired 22.5 degrees C. was ...

2 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Tell us about your Solar (PV) setup

@josephiah Oh for a crystal ball! We have been on Cosy for a few months now and I note of late that Agile has dropped in price again. I’ll stick with ...

2 years ago
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Solar Photovoltaic (PV)
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