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RE: Smart meter installation – seamless or a potential nightmare?

Hi @lenny - can we clarify a few points please? Was it Shell who installed the Smart Meter?It looks like it has been there many months. There's an a...

2 years ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: What do we need to know before installing a heat pump?

And which is more realistic or achievable? your extrapolations my trends or the Government's targets? OK, so we have differing thoughts o...

2 years ago
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Government Schemes, Regulations, Planning & Organisations
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RE: What do we need to know before installing a heat pump?

Way back at the beginning of this topic @cathoderay posted some statistics. I've been unable to locate just one source which gives those figures,...

2 years ago
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Government Schemes, Regulations, Planning & Organisations
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RE: What do we need to know before installing a heat pump?

There are some very effective and innovative success stories to tackle this problem.A good example is the trial partnership between Devon County Counc...

2 years ago
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Government Schemes, Regulations, Planning & Organisations
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RE: What do we need to know before installing a heat pump?

The raw data was supplied to me by the most senior engineering contact I have in NGED. He was responding to a point I'd made that losses were confin...

2 years ago
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Government Schemes, Regulations, Planning & Organisations
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RE: What do we need to know before installing a heat pump?

Ah... well that seems to prove the case. In discussions with senior engineering managers at NGED, they have cited harmonics from heat-pump installat...

2 years ago
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Government Schemes, Regulations, Planning & Organisations
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RE: What do we need to know before installing a heat pump?

Ah... that's not how I thought a (domestic-sized) 240v AC pump was operated using PWM. I expected the basic 50Hz to still be applied, but that it wo...

2 years ago
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Government Schemes, Regulations, Planning & Organisations
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RE: What do we need to know before installing a heat pump?

Why? Please expand on this. Yes I understand that an (AC mains) electric pump requires a certain amount of electricity to get it started and then ...

2 years ago
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Government Schemes, Regulations, Planning & Organisations
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RE: Solar panels not working correctly? what checks can I make?

If by 'meter' you mean the household Smart Meter or an MCS-approved meter on the mains-output side of an inverter, then there's no problem with those ...

2 years ago
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Solar Photovoltaic (PV)
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RE: My experience with the Selpos Mason DIY kit

I doubt those 'Victron' bus bars are different to scores of others available with current capacities up to 500A Personally, I've decided to ma...

2 years ago
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Energy Storage
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RE: Solar panels not working correctly? what checks can I make?

MC4 connect/disconnect tools can be bought cheaply online.But beware that the cheaper ones are likely to be sent direct from China, with a resulting d...

2 years ago
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Solar Photovoltaic (PV)
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RE: My experience with the Selpos Mason DIY kit

Current limiting in what part of the system? In the BMS unit of the Mason box whose battery has the lower capacity? My experimentation suggests th...

2 years ago
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Energy Storage
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