SteamyTea

It is about time we got @DamonHD to have a word with his father. He used to combine entertainment and fact quite well.

Be wary of IR heating. If it was so brilliant, we would not have panel and fan heater. Have you considered storage heaters, they have moved on since the 1980s. Maybe discus with landlords again tell them there is free money to be had.

Or a terminology one, they should be called convectors, not radiators. I do hope that science lessons in schools start teaching this stuff, it is all very simple, little mathematics needed and could make a huge difference.

Been discussed, quite badly, on R4 all morning. Left a program about COP in Glasgow as it was not saying anything new. Regarding MCS taking the £5k as a 'bonus', it may spur others on to do a 5k system. It puts a price on things. You can now get PV installed for a quarter of the price than 15 years ago, not all of that is down do lower module price.

No. But I know my energy load could be very small at night, sub 1 kWh/night. If you are going off grid, demand reduction is the key.

Check it, and maybe get extra cover. Don't mention when your neighbour came around.

Are you/your builder insured?

Think it is better to start a new thread about this. This is about people venting off their frustration about government policy.

Don't it work because it takes time to charge up the capacitor, this is what shifts the phase. I take it that the capacitor/s are after the transformer/s. Can you work out the RMS voltage?

So glad I did not rush out and buy a telly then.

It is based on the reheat time. Any heating system will take a while to start producing thermal energy at the desired temperature. Once at that temperature, and assuming the set up is correct, maximum CoP will be delivered for the conditions. So basically it is ((stored energy + added energy) - consumed energy) / time. So you need to work out those to get s volume. No need to go to 3 decimal places, nearest kWh will do.

Built some professionally. Not as simple as they seem. Copy a Proven WT6000 Or just buy one for a quid a watt. https://www.hitwind.com/product/proven-wt6000-6kw-used-wind-turbine-for-sale/ If you have the room, why not PV and some storage. Simpler and easily scalable. Not sure if you need MCS to get payments now. Think you can deal directly with the energy companies.

I would still fit one. You are assuming that there will always be enough water volume, at the right delta T, to make the ASHP function as intended. Higher than needed return temperature, or too low a flow rate can also throw an error that stops the pump.

If you park up in The Swan Theatre short stay carpark in High Wycombe, they have a similar finish on the stair well wall. Has an interesting odour, piss and detol. At least down hear they only smell if pasty and fish.

Now the stairs are in, how are you going to render the walls?

It is to do with the reheating time versus the heat loss time. If the time difference is too short i.e. you are only heating one small loop in the system, say it is spring and the kitchen door is open because you are gardening. Then the losses will be relatively high, but the input from the ASHP will be much higher. This will cause the ASHP to switch on and off quite quickly. That is not good for the CoP and not good mechanically for all the components that have to switch on and off.

What is the smallest volume of water that the ASPH can deal with? Then make it larger.

Think we need a bit more information. Got a link to a report or product?

Just lift s few tiles and poke them in. Climbed a slab near St. Just. About 50 m high. Top 2/3rd had nowhere to put in protection. Pretty scary that was. Did see a sunfish from the top, so worth it.

@joe90 This is all we use, can usually find somewhere to wedge one in.

Judging by the electrical grid emissions in Scotland, was 0 this morning, no electricity. You all still burning peat to keep warm.

I am wondering if they are talking about 'Safe Zones' which are electrical regs. The places you can and can't fit switches outlets, cables etc. Being a chef, I will say, that it is useful, for that odd occasion that you are using 3 or 4 zones to be able to turn the pan handles around so they are not over something hot. So maybe a smaller hob may make life easier.

Welcome Building Regulations are here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/approved-documents

you would be better off using that, as long as the flow is good.

Is that because it is a converter i.e. the capacitors are charged up to around that voltage?