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DIY Heat Exchanger
SteamyTea replied to Onoff's topic in Mechanical Ventilation with Heat Recovery (MVHR)
No. I binned it during the early part of the year. Don't think it was doing much in the end as I never put any filters in it. Having said that, the pipe that goes to outside (is that the exhaust, they use odd names on heat exchangers) came loose, some housemartyns started nesting in the hole, and the pipe was dripping water out. Still not painted the ceiling in the spare bedroom (needs at least 5 years to dry properly I think). So it may have been working as condensation was happening. -
DIY Heat Exchanger
SteamyTea replied to Onoff's topic in Mechanical Ventilation with Heat Recovery (MVHR)
@Onoff I made an MVHR unit a few years back. I separated the plates with some timber strips with double sided tape on each face. One day I will make the Mk3 version. -
Which SMAs you got? Why have you got 2 of them?
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I think it also takes the ΔT between the flow and return into account. So it is really measuring two temperatures, and adjusting the flow rates/output temperatures to govern the power. I may be wrong on that though.
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How to safely link our own spring water with the mains supply
SteamyTea replied to DavyH's topic in General Plumbing
Cornwall has the most expensive water in the country, which makes it one of the most expensive in the world. By bypassing the meter, sewage charges are reduced if on mains sewage (though that is a bit immoral). @DavyH I think that @JohnMo is on the right track. A totally, unconnected, supply. Our old mate, Jeremy, who no longer posts, designed his own bore hole filtration system that was a sand filter with ozone injection. It worked well. -
Can you get them covered in pink fur?
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Why our teeth fall out and we have high incidences of lung disease.
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Welcome. When did you manage to get a picture of a clear sky in Kernow.
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Yes, and this is what it is all about and is why the the cost of carbon needs to be directly related to the energy source. Yes. Grants skew the market too much.
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That all depends on how it is commissioned. We often hear stories of woe on here about peoples heat pumps costing a lot to run, and I am sure many people think that their gas boilers cost a lot to run as well.
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Walk on glazing - drip , drip ( yes I know ! )
SteamyTea replied to Pocster's topic in Skylights & Roof Windows
Can you put rain deflectors on the wall. Maybe just some angled ply that stops the rain running down. -
Walk on glazing - drip , drip ( yes I know ! )
SteamyTea replied to Pocster's topic in Skylights & Roof Windows
I meant a picture of that, not your wobbly wall. -
Walk on glazing - drip , drip ( yes I know ! )
SteamyTea replied to Pocster's topic in Skylights & Roof Windows
A houseboat then. -
Walk on glazing - drip , drip ( yes I know ! )
SteamyTea replied to Pocster's topic in Skylights & Roof Windows
How about some pictures of the outside. -
Welcome Would need to know the power rating of the lights, and if they supply some heating as well as light. As a rule of thumb, you will get 10% of the available light as electrical power. So this does depend on angles. You can play around with PVGIS to get an idea of the amount of light available. Usually PV modules are fitted outside, they get more light and run cooler. But as this is a relatively small system, placing one by a window should not hamper it too much.
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I am with @JamesPa on this. It is the implementation. Most installs would just plumb in a monoblock ASHP to the heating circuit, DHW would be too expensive to do right as most installs in the last 40 years have been combi boilers.
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An environmental disaster, only marginally better than doing nothing. Not going to be cheap either, and will be abused by many sales orientated installers. If some are really 'hydrogen ready' then that is environmentally worse than burning natural gas. The only real solutions are to raise the price of energy though carbon taxes and put a supplementary tax on house sales based on kWh.m-2.year-1 usage (that data is easy enough to come by). There is more than enough free equity in the property market to either thermally upgrade or take a hit on the selling price.
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I was at school with Roger Hodgson's little brother. Roger used to pick him on in his Jaaaag.
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We will try to convince you that you only need electricity. Depending on what free time you have while you are looking for a plot, you could go down the local technical college and see what courses they are running.
