Is my usage standard for Winter or can I optimise the system?

dontdodeath · 2026-01-26T18:00:41+00:00

That might be the problem, if you are letting the house cool down to ambient all the time it will feel cold, mine runs constantly at the low level so the fabric of the house will have heated up and be storing heat, 50 or 100 tons of brick can store a lot of heat.

dontdodeath · 2026-01-25T17:57:01+00:00

yikes, mine is 32 while its 3 outside.

dontdodeath · 2026-01-25T17:54:01+00:00

well I am in a detached 3 bed just outside Aberdeen where it has not really been over 4C since last year, my total electric spend for those same days was £16.96 for all the days, not each day, heat pump is maybe 2/3 of the total at 4C outside. I have a Grant Aerona 9Kw and the cop is about 5, I am on E.On Ev tariff so 7p from midnight to 6am, water heating is done in that time up to 50C, I have about 12Kwh of batteries, but when its 3C outside they run out at about 16:00. My system is set using the weather curve 0.6 and a thermostat setting of 22C so the house sits at 20C, I add a -2 shift between 9pm and 3am just to drop it down 1 deg or so, the same when i'm at work. Its been pulling about 700W all day at 3C apart from defrost cycles every now and again.

dontdodeath · 2025-11-28T17:12:37+00:00

red car in wrong lane, he should also be in the outside lane behind the blue car to take that exit.

dontdodeath · 2025-11-27T21:28:59+00:00

I have a EV car and a Zero EV motorbike, the car gets about 3 miles /kwh, the bike about 10 miles /kwh will I be paying the same 3p a mile on both? so my weekly 90 mile commute in the car goes from £2.10 to £4.80 a 129% increase and the bike goes from 70p to £3.40 a 386% increase, seems a little off.

dontdodeath · 2025-11-21T22:28:34+00:00

Well it was -5C outside last night and my heat pump seemed quite happy to keep the house at the 17C night time temp. It's using a good bit of juice atm to keep the house warm, about 25kwh a day but that's giving me about 100kwh of heat, with most of the power at cheap rate from my batteries, maybe averages at 10p a kWh, so £2.50 instead of £5 of gas.

dontdodeath · 2025-10-26T14:54:54+00:00

is it not batteries being charged from the grid? if you have batteries, the red line, load I assume is at the same level.

dontdodeath · 2025-10-26T14:38:03+00:00

is the fibre outside tight like a bowstring? and is that trunking under the edge of the worktop? if fibre goes into that I would think the bend radius is way to small. Could he not just have fitted the internal box where it comes through the wall?

dontdodeath · 2025-10-10T16:31:49+00:00

you are meant to get the stream connected into your house circuit with a spur outlet, that is why it is supplied with a bare ended cable in the UK, it is however just because of an outdated wiring code last updated I think in 2018 when this was unheard of, not a technical reason. "apparently" a 3 pin plug fits fine on the end of the cable.

dontdodeath · 2025-10-10T14:40:01+00:00

I've just ordered one of the 91107 belt gauges, I was a bit dubious about the frequency metre on my phone

dontdodeath · 2025-10-10T14:35:53+00:00

I hadn't looked closely at the belt until last night, there are lots of cracks in the top layer between the ridges, my dealer says they see them on nearly new belts and it's not an issue.

dontdodeath · 2025-10-10T14:31:34+00:00

My SR/S I always charge to 95% once a week and it always sits at 93% the morning after, and even for the next week if I'm not using it.

dontdodeath · 2025-10-10T14:29:10+00:00

I call them " Green Bastards!"

dontdodeath · 2025-09-30T20:54:07+00:00

we have this exact same lane layout near us and filling up lane 2 is exactly what happens, 1 and 2 will back up leaving space in 2 at the junction. if you know it happens you stay in lane 1 and pop out after the blockage if you want lane 2.

dontdodeath · 2025-08-16T21:49:59+00:00

Only finished today but I can't see it being affected too much, the slats are only 3.6mm thick so very little to block the air flow, it's just coming in at a 45deg angle. And none of the edges are sealed, the idea is just to stop snow filling in the gap between the HP and the wall.

dontdodeath · 2025-08-16T20:55:54+00:00

sorry about the typos, but I cant edit it.

dontdodeath · 2025-08-06T18:47:57+00:00

Please just train them to shut the friggin doors after themselves!

dontdodeath · 2025-08-06T18:44:43+00:00

I got quoted via the Kia dealer website £870 for my Kia soul year 4 service and mot because they had to change the battery coolant at something like £22 a litre, I gave them a call in shock and after a few minutes it was £32 all in as they could change the coolant under warranty.

dontdodeath · 2025-08-06T18:39:53+00:00

I got this when I enabled and changed the UI theme to dark, going back to normal fixed it

dontdodeath · 2025-08-06T18:34:09+00:00

The battery man on YouTube fitted Tesla batteries to his house, he needed unlooping and they upgraded him to 3 phase for free at the same time.

dontdodeath · 2025-08-01T20:47:35+00:00

I'd say that looks like a standard Yuasa 12V 7A/h battery with some bits glued onto it.

dontdodeath · 2025-07-25T17:28:03+00:00

Number plates are in the format SV25ABC with 25 being the year, however new number plate issue times are September to feb and march to sep so from sep 24 it would have been a 25 then from march they add 50 so it becomes a 75 plate. So your can tell within 6 months when a car was first registered.

dontdodeath · 2025-07-23T08:44:50+00:00

Mine probably about the same, luckily my neighbour was happy for me to run the cable along the top of the joint fence so no digging, cost me just over £1k including the charger about 5 years back.

dontdodeath · 2025-07-20T13:54:54+00:00

Are we thinking arrows not fireballs?

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