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RE: EV road taxation

That Asset-2 looks fascinating @jeff Of course, the MOD did actually commercialise Moving Obstacle Detection and Tracking.It's what we now call Stor...

1 year ago

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Renewable-powered transport (EVs & e-bikes)

RE: DIY Heat Pumps.

REFCOM and Cornish Trading Standards successfully prosecuted heat-pump installer, Adrian Miles, who was adding coolant to heat-pumps without the neces...

1 year ago

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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)

RE: EV road taxation

Absolutely! The regulatory obstacles were addressed in the Automated Vehicles Act (May 2024). And I agree with you that rural communities offer th...

1 year ago

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Renewable-powered transport (EVs & e-bikes)

RE: Will heat pump heat hot water without increasing the temp in my home?

@toodles - you might want to check @judith's credentials before posting further on that point! Even the text at the foot of her posts gives an indic...

1 year ago

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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)

RE: Single vs. three phase for heat pump, EV and appliances

Phase shift by distribution transformers Grid transformers are designed for maximum efficiency.To achieve this, the output frequency usually gets ph...

1 year ago

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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers

RE: Single vs. three phase for heat pump, EV and appliances

zero point one what? percent?kilowatts? I can't give a straight answer to that question.Unlike the rest of you, I have multiple arrays with di...

1 year ago

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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers

RE: Single vs. three phase for heat pump, EV and appliances

True @david999 - not all properties have three-phase available.I live in a rural area with long overhead 11kV cable runs to reach farms and hamlets.Th...

1 year ago

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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers

RE: Will heat pump heat hot water without increasing the temp in my home?

Thank you @ellyse Rochdale isn't an area I'm familiar with, and I don't have the network maps for your regional distribution grid. However, if I w...

1 year ago

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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)

RE: Will heat pump heat hot water without increasing the temp in my home?

I'm going to pick up a few of those points @ellyse I don't think that's good enough. This is one of the points which got picked up in the House...

1 year ago

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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)

RE: Single vs. three phase for heat pump, EV and appliances

Let me explain that term, then we can more clearly use it this discussion. The DNOs use the words looped and shared to describe similar situations i...

1 year ago

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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers

RE: Single vs. three phase for heat pump, EV and appliances

Yes!!I absolutely agree. 3-phase heat pumps and EV chargers would be so much better for the local distribution grid. Sad, but true.That app...

1 year ago

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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers

RE: Single vs. three phase for heat pump, EV and appliances

Apologies for arriving 'late' to this topic. We've been discussing the change from single-phase to 3-phase over here on a topic about DIY Solar u...

1 year ago

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