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If it is by the canal, sell the power, and mooring rights, to @JamesPa
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ASHP with large thermal store (for load shifting)
SteamyTea replied to apesort's topic in Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHP)
You can get one. -
Ecodan standby power consumption
SteamyTea replied to LA3222's topic in Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHP)
I suspect, as I think has been mentioned before, that the 16 MWh estimate is wrong. At a SCoP of 3.6, your house is probably using 12 MWh a year. 25% less energy than the estimate. -
ASHP with large thermal store (for load shifting)
SteamyTea replied to apesort's topic in Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHP)
@ReedRichards Just had a thought while I was up in the loft tidying. Too high a temperature is not really a problem as your system design can just use a temperature blending valve. So really the things to look at if seriously considering a Sunamp are the kWh price and the size they take up. You can always parallel them up for extra storage. -
ASHP with large thermal store (for load shifting)
SteamyTea replied to apesort's topic in Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHP)
No idea. Ask their technical department or the technical sales at one of their agents. From my understanding, Sunamp lost the plot a few years back when they got involved with a large marketing company. @Andrew Bissell - Sunamp may still look on here, or not. -
Converting wooden workshop to office
SteamyTea replied to Adthrawn's topic in Garage & Cellar Conversions
Should do. Just make sure wind blown rain is not a problem. And some small drain holes at the base for any liquid water. -
Ecodan standby power consumption
SteamyTea replied to LA3222's topic in Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHP)
That is odd as, with limited research, I was under the impression that scroll compressors did not have this problem, only the reciprocation ones. But at least you got to chat to someone that seemed to know about it. 6 kWh/day is double my current daily usage. -
Converting wooden workshop to office
SteamyTea replied to Adthrawn's topic in Garage & Cellar Conversions
Yes. It is probably there as a secondary rain screen. There is some confusion about wall buildups because, in the USA, they frequently do the opposite to us. This is because they air condition their homes and the outside air is hot and humid. Some say that we need to treat sheds the same as they are unheated and our external air has high humidity. But as soon as it becomes a heated area, then water vapour needs to escape. This is why the most vapour resistant later us on the inside and each additional layer is less resistant. Not too much of a real problem when the recommended airchanges and working temperatures are well controlled. -
Yes. Our compressor and tank was checked, every year I think. The small portable one was ok, think it was under 15 lt.
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ASHP with large thermal store (for load shifting)
SteamyTea replied to apesort's topic in Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHP)
Work out your most likely thermal loads (you need to do this anyway) and then see what the capacity, in kWh, they can supply. -
Converting wooden workshop to office
SteamyTea replied to Adthrawn's topic in Garage & Cellar Conversions
I assume this is the rain screen, so should be ventilated and allow any liquid water to escape from the bottom. The idea, in the UK climate, is that humidity and temperatures are higher on the inside of the building. The insulation makeup, once past the VCL, is to allow water vapour to escape and evaporate. The living area is treated differently as that is usually serviced with natural, or forced ventilation, this reduces the amount of water vapour that can enter into the wall build up. Wind driven rain is stopped by cladding, and/or, an extra layer of liquid water impervious sheeting, but needs a gap between itself and the main structure. It effectively adds nothing to the insulation levels as air can easily travel behind it. Wind is stopped by the airtight barrier, on the outside of the structure, but before the air gap and cladding. -
Converting wooden workshop to office
SteamyTea replied to Adthrawn's topic in Garage & Cellar Conversions
Just becomes a standard wall makeup. So apart from plasterboard, everything is outboard of the VCL and gets more vapour open as you travel outwards. -
What sort of work do you do on it. A few Word documents, PDFs and a basic spreadsheet are not going goi worry it much. 7 million rows of Excel conditional sums might. As will heavy video editing. Best way to upgrade a PC us to downgrade the software.
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Ecodan standby power consumption
SteamyTea replied to LA3222's topic in Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHP)
What Steve Jobs said about Bill Gates. -
Ecodan standby power consumption
SteamyTea replied to LA3222's topic in Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHP)
If Ritalin keeps small children quiet. Then Ritalin. Shame I am not allowed to smoke a joint in a cafe, I would be pretty mellow about the child centred parents trying to stop the little shits ruining everybody's lunch hour. (Disclaimer: I am against non legal and illegal usage of prescription drugs) -
Any guttering can get blocked. I would avoid any chance of that happening by not having the roof touch either property. You may have to change your door as well if it becomes a proper garage.
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Ecodan standby power consumption
SteamyTea replied to LA3222's topic in Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHP)
Those will be changed to Grote's. Or a stable crypto coin. -
Ecodan standby power consumption
SteamyTea replied to LA3222's topic in Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHP)
One second is the time that elapses during 9,192,631,770 cycles of the radiation produced by the transition between two levels of the cesium 133 atom. But only with no relativistic effects I assume. -
Ecodan standby power consumption
SteamyTea replied to LA3222's topic in Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHP)
Ah right. Yes, thought the / second may have been angular seconds. Getting hungry, need a quarter pounder, which is 417 calories per 0.37699 lb. Not sure if that is with cheese. -
ASHP with large thermal store (for load shifting)
SteamyTea replied to apesort's topic in Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHP)
Don't they do the lower transition temperature ones any more? I keep meaning to model this. You may be better off, overall, having high temperature input at the begining as the power transfer is better i.e. less time to increase the store by 1 K. Then increase the temperatures input difference as the store increases. As long as parity is not that close, and the HP has the capacity, and the store does not loose too much energy, it may be cheaper. Trouble is, reality is messy and and we cannot control the weather in advance of our space and DHW needs. -
Ecodan standby power consumption
SteamyTea replied to LA3222's topic in Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHP)
Don't you mean pound-foot for torque. Force at a distance. Or were you talking about Moments of an axis. That Lsd we had in the early 70s, been replaced with Ritalin. Will be interesting to see how this government (expletive deleted) up changing back to imperial units. Will be using the erg before we know it. One pound, lifted one foot is 1.356 × 107 ergs. -
Converting wooden workshop to office
SteamyTea replied to Adthrawn's topic in Garage & Cellar Conversions
Have you considered heating/cooling and humidity control for when it is finished? This may change your wall buildups. Air2Air heat pump combined with a basic MVHR unit may be all you need. Basically make the inside airtight, then control that. -
Ecodan standby power consumption
SteamyTea replied to LA3222's topic in Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHP)
So a 38 W heater, and 9 W. Total of 47 W some of the time. Or. That 38 W could be an average. But that would be a strange way to show it. -
ASHP with large thermal store (for load shifting)
SteamyTea replied to apesort's topic in Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHP)
And they store energy at a useful temperature. -
Ecodan standby power consumption
SteamyTea replied to LA3222's topic in Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHP)
I was showing that a watt, divided by an hour, kW/h, is a nonsense unit. We have the joule to describe that. J/s/s =J. May email to them in the morning to clarify what they mean. They could mean that that mean power was 312 W when measured over a 24 hour period. Which gets us back to the starting point of this thread.
