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Not sure cables are large enough for much power are they? It looks like some sort of controlled heat exchanger hot water, from some where else (is there anywhere else heat is coming from?) and some sort of valve and pump control the UFH circulation. Can you get the cover off?
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Is there anything written on the box? No LED ON indicates not running, is there a thermostat somewhere that is not calling for heat or some time switch set to off?
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Where did you find that figure - I was wondering how it would work for E7.
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New series of Grand Designs 31st August 2022
MikeSharp01 replied to Thorfun's topic in Property TV Programmes
The big housebuilders are now getting into it - fully automated factories making Pods. https://www.property118.com/the-first-of-22-berkeley-modular-homes-are-being-built-in-greenwich/ an more on this here: https://www.berkeleygroup.co.uk/about-us/who-we-are/our-brands/berkeley-modular -
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Critique please! New Build Floorplans
MikeSharp01 replied to hinge and bracket's topic in New House & Self Build Design
Just tell them you want it gone and let them worry about how to make it look right as I suspect that is what they are worried about. -
Relocating boiler to under stairs cupboard
MikeSharp01 replied to jayc89's topic in Boilers & Hot Water Tanks
Would anybody die in a ditch if we edit the title of this thread to read: "Relocating boiler to under-stairs cupboard"? -
Where is the kWh price heading in 2022?
MikeSharp01 replied to epsilonGreedy's topic in General Self Build & DIY Discussion
And what about those of us on LPG I wonder. -
MVHR in vaulted ceilings
MikeSharp01 replied to richo106's topic in Mechanical Ventilation with Heat Recovery (MVHR)
Looks like a plan just get it as far from the door as you can so you don't get stale zones. -
SolarEdge + StorEdge + LG RESU - anyone done it?
MikeSharp01 replied to joth's topic in Energy Storage
? for clarity - perhaps you mean RS485? -
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When does building control sign off?
MikeSharp01 replied to Andeh's topic in General Self Build & DIY Discussion
Refer her/him to the BCO drawings and package you sent them with email confirmation then sit tight! -
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Seems wrong to have mini as 'a second car' they are such fun.
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Is it an Olympic size pool - 700m2 is 3 tennis courts!
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How do they may them so cheap? Wonder if that 3OA relay really is?
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Yep - it happens to be one of my biggest challenges, while thinking is not a bad thing it sometimes helps to be shaken out of it, so thanks!
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On the other hand - like too many things I stick my nose into this challenge is expanding greatly and I need to learn to control the levels of detail a bit better. While doing the 'what do / does current systems do.' I hit this problem; Stepping out from just counting pulses we have energy monitoring and stepping out from that we have energy / cost minimising. When you get out here the path back to pulse counting is obscured by many other factors. So, for instance, we - well some of us, could start to live our lives 12 hours out phase. This would level out demand and flatten prices and I need not worry so much about how much I use. We might extend this idea and in combination with others we can see that living our lives looking ahead based on; the 30 minute import / export tariffs, what our food preferences are, how much sun we are expecting & when and what's in the fridge the system might work out a good recipe (or small selection of same) and give instructions as to when to cook it. So now in designing my pulse counter I need also to agree how it will fit with all these other futures. Not to mention how to deal with export and the various flashing behaviours of meters from different suppliers when export happens. My head hurts!
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Well its basically ready, but I have sort of expanded it a bit to make the block do much more than just log the meter but also manage DHT22s and the like. I have not managed to get the RTC working reliably so have switched over to NTP, as @Radian, suggested. I have sort of written up the first, discover / define (Does/Should), part and am about to start testing the whole system, then I will publish and be damned.
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Just read that thread and it struck me that you might be able to calibrate 'waste' by synching up your measurements with the meter readings, assuming you have access to your 30 minute IN/OUT readings, over a period of hours or even days just to get a feel for it. It looks like the Joule bucket is not constant for all makes thus challenging assumptions on how your system works but if you could work it out then it's another shareable commodity. Finally it is possible to infer one of two things from the thread: that either commercial units don't care about the occasional mismatch or that they know something you (and the other thread members) don't. I know where I stand on that one.
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Where is the kWh price heading in 2022?
MikeSharp01 replied to epsilonGreedy's topic in General Self Build & DIY Discussion
How far in advance does one get the tarrif from Octapus? -
But you do have Buildhub - although non commercial loads of people come here to get great ideas. I have been thinking along the same lines about how the market we are in sees the UK as treasure island. If its going to be sold direct in the UK the price will be X while elsewhere you can get it at X-significant chunk of money and because importing is not well understood people don' do it. Some of it is about our lack of the 'delayed gratification' Gene but I suspect most of it is about being uncertain when buying from France / Germany / China direct what the admin needs are. Basically none really, although that may change if we put up barriers. What is needed to get EMC compliance signed off these days - big grey box no use here I suppose? This might be worth a read: https://www.ul.com/insights/ten-things-know-successful-smart-home-product-launch from UL, one of the bigger test houses so watch for bias, but not all about just EMC.
