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by chris_n
Mon Apr 14, 2025 7:09 pm
Forum: Spaceheating
Topic: Starting out on my heat pump journey
Replies: 176
Views: 33212

Re: Starting out on my heat pump journey

........ temp doesn’t warm the house enough - maintain log burners for those times when we are without power for a few days...... Moxi Not JUST for providing all the heat when no electric power. The "efficiency" (COP) of an ASHP heat pump decreases as the air temperature outside decreases...
by chris_n
Mon Mar 31, 2025 4:27 pm
Forum: Photovoltaic
Topic: Solar record?
Replies: 25
Views: 2598

Re: Solar record?

It's still nice to have easy to understand numbers like "peak solar record" though as it gives an overall indication of the scale of where solar is going - which is continuing year on year - as if nothing else its a counter to the "solar doesn't work in the UK" argument that sti...
by chris_n
Sun Mar 30, 2025 1:24 pm
Forum: Photovoltaic
Topic: Solar record?
Replies: 25
Views: 2598

Solar record?

Haven't been able to find a thread on this but Iamkate is currently showing 10.55GW which is 35.8% of current generation. Don't know if this is a record?
Edit 10.79GW & 37%
by chris_n
Sat Mar 29, 2025 7:46 pm
Forum: Energy storage, batteries, energy tariffs
Topic: ASAP / aircon?
Replies: 34
Views: 1359

Re: ASAP / aircon?

Being 'pre packed' with the gas as such, as long as you ensure you do a decent vacuum test on the pipework with a proper pump and leave on test for a while, ots pretty idiot proof really. All thats neccesary for the gas to be sent into the refridge lines is an allen key. One of those jobs made to s...
by chris_n
Sat Mar 22, 2025 11:17 pm
Forum: Energy storage, batteries, energy tariffs
Topic: Jump Starter
Replies: 20
Views: 766

Re: Jump Starter

https://i.postimg.cc/XXxXfxHh/Screen-Shot-2025-03-22-at-10-05-22.jpg It folds up easily to fit in a car, just that bit heavy, though That is a cracker! We see loads of that style zipping about in Turkey. Swmbo has recently suggested we get a pair for the back of the van. It's a good bit of kit? Agr...
by chris_n
Sat Mar 22, 2025 3:21 pm
Forum: Energy storage, batteries, energy tariffs
Topic: Jump Starter
Replies: 20
Views: 766

Re: Jump Starter

https://i.postimg.cc/XXxXfxHh/Screen-Shot-2025-03-22-at-10-05-22.jpg It folds up easily to fit in a car, just that bit heavy, though That's because it's a motorbike not an ebike. Riding that anywhere that the public has access to is illegal, could lead to fines, points on licence and vehicle crushe...
by chris_n
Sat Mar 22, 2025 3:15 pm
Forum: Energy storage, batteries, energy tariffs
Topic: Jump Starter
Replies: 20
Views: 766

Re: Jump Starter

https://i.postimg.cc/XXxXfxHh/Screen-Shot-2025-03-22-at-10-05-22.jpg It folds up easily to fit in a car, just that bit heavy, though That's because it's a motorbike not an ebike. Riding that anywhere that the public has access to is illegal, could lead to fines, points on licence and vehicle crushe...
by chris_n
Fri Jan 17, 2025 3:35 pm
Forum: Transport
Topic: Cybertruck seized in Manchester
Replies: 32
Views: 7622

Re: Cybertruck seized in Manchester

On the subject of cars getting bigger, the first thing that strikes me as I get off the ferry when returning to UK is how tiny and crowded UK roads are. Driving from Austria through Germany and Netherlands on mainly but not exclusively motorway then getting spat off the ferry onto the M62 is an eye ...
by chris_n
Wed Dec 18, 2024 5:11 pm
Forum: Photovoltaic
Topic: Balcony solar PV
Replies: 1130
Views: 311811

Re: Balcony solar PV

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/dec/18/if-a-million-germans-have-them-there-must-be-something-in-it-how-balcony-solar-is-taking-off As ever the UK is up against the crap way final circuits have been wired since the war. The regulators need to get their heads together and decide if 6-80...
by chris_n
Sat Dec 14, 2024 7:09 pm
Forum: Spaceheating
Topic: Trials and Tribulations of Eco installs.
Replies: 70
Views: 10952

Re: Trials and Tribulations of Eco installs.

I agree. I wasnt happy at all. The electrician was, lets just say, highly tempremental with me when i questioned him over the wrongly wired switch and not checking the system. As a person who was alone in the house at the time and suffers from ptsd from an assault 2 years ago, i felt much more comf...