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Thanks for posting those calculations @tim441 Your Topic Title first suggested to me that you were yet to install battery storage...but your tag lin...
Cathy - you have just become the 'go to' person in your area for others wanting to know more about heat-pumps... ... preferably before they even com...
If you are to have glycol added to the system, then I question why have also had (relatively expensive) anti-freeze valves fitted. 🤔 The an...
I'm puzzled by that. The Sig Energy datasheet indicates that there are two separate 240v power outputs.The one marked "Backup" suggests that it shou...
Thanks for the photos. That's in the top 10% of external HP installations which I've seen. 🙂 But it still looks like rain could enter thr...
Some of them even get elected and then decide energy policy 😥 That depends on whether the decisions are being made on the basis of M...
How does their software collect that data? From Smart meters? ... being polled each hour to obtain 'live' data? It's an odd decision to buil...
Yes, most meters (including all Smart Meters) record gas consumption in cubic metres (m³) To convert to kWh... Cubic meters (m³) used x calorific ...
I haven't (yet) done any research on the Sigenstor inverter,but I'm posting a block diagram which is an approximation of your electrics as I've unders...
Erm... you mustn't do that! The configuration of the inverter must limit export to the 27A which the DNO Consent states. May I explain why... ...
That's going to depend on the nature of your contract with the architect. For a new-build, it's usually the case that it is given an Architect's Cer...
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