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We are evacuating into the other side of the house. Went to get ready for bed and use our ensuite and oh my god do we have a bad smell. Literally makes my eyes water it's absolutely disgusting. We don't have an opening window as it's a flat roof skylight so have the fan on with little impact. Shut all doors to stop it drifting through house. Our ensuite is used regularly, probably more than any other. The weird thing is I can't pinpoint it coming from anywhere in particular and my sense of smell is acute (unfortunately). I know we have a durga valve in there. All other loos fine and no smells.

I was out off with the Agile tarrif and knowing my luck our main use will be when it's higher. The Octopus Go rates for us are slightly more expensive in the day but we may look at the Go Faster which has cheaper rates from 8:30pm rather than the 0:30-4:30am (we don't have electric cars).

It's warmer where you are it's now 2 degrees here. I'll be lighting the woodburner later.

What temperature do you have your thermostats set to? We had ours set at 19 degrees which we found too cool and even then (with outside temperatures around 8-10 degrees) our consumption and DHW on a schedule we were still in around 25kWh. Today with temperatures of 3 degrees and in the 24 hour period since yesterday with our thermostats raised to 20 degrees we have used just over 40kWh with the heat pump. You will have seen on my thread we don't have EWI yet which I'm hoping will help in the longer term.

That's interesting. I guess I can keep monitoring it to see what happens. At the moment it's just about monitoring it each week and seeing what is having an impact.

Yep thanks to advice on here we went for the 400 litre Gledhill. We are not using the legionella cycle at the moment. Having read a few posts on here it doesn't seem many people do and just tend to run at 48 degrees. Not yet as I'm tied in to a contract til end of Feb so in a week I am, I've confirmed with Octopus I already have a smart meter so I'm ready to go but @joe90 sent me his referral a while ago and beat you to it! Perhaps he will split it with you....

I have no idea but our temp is set to 48 degrees. The hot water is scheduled to come on for two hours, the rest of the time it is off and remains hot from what has been previously.

We have our temperature set to 48 degrees now too. I'm also in the process of changing to Octopus and will be taking their Go tarrif, one of which gives us cheaper electricity from 8:30pm so I plan to heat water for a few hours during this period too.

Another interesting week, we have used 304 units on our heat pump this week which is up on last week but we had some colder temperatures over the weekend and earlier in the week and I raised the thermostats a little. @Ultima357 has given me some great information having the same ASHP as me and things are looking a bit better albeit we have had warmer temperatures the past couple of days. Some things that have helped and made me notice a real difference. For the past couple of days I've programmed a schedule for the hot water and it now comes on for a couple of hours just after tea rather than it having no schedule and being just set to a permanent temperature. We have found that just this couple of hours is enough to satisfy my hot baths and showers in the evening and remains warm and is completely sufficient through the next day even without the solar PV immersion (which isn't having any impact at the moment as we are only getting around 2.8kWh at the highest day this week due to some pretty crap weather so there isn't any excess to divert to the immersion). The past couple of days we have had the DHW schedule our HP meter is showing between 22-27 units in a 24 hour period which seems fantastic to me given we raised our thermostat temperatures too so I do believe a significant proportion of our electricity use was the DHW rather than the heating though I'm going to monitor it over the next week to give us a clearer picture. Our 'other' use has gone up significantly this week to almost 180 units due to builders being on site for a few days and we can pinpoint why this has increased a lot so this should be an exception. And the immersion reading hasn't changed since I have deactivated the 'disenfectent' aka legionella cycle for the time being.

Thanks it's actually a stud wall I believe so this could work well.

Yep we have a manual lock as well with key. It may be we just get one of those box things @Onoff suggested. Not idea but solves a problem.

Thanks both. It's an Internorm front door with fingerprint sensor. I've had contact with a very helpful guy in Austria at Internorm who sent through lots of info and we have the manuals ready to set it all up. Some info they sent. I believe everything is in the frame itself as this is where all the wires were. I also think we don't have studded walls rather it is blocks (other side is a bathroom). No cupboard etc. There is a fuse button so think this is for the front door. The little screen is a thermostat. 4_1_5_Electrical connection plans - ENGLISH.pdf Also see file attached.

I know! Frustratingly we have been going on about this ever since the door got put in and saying about the fingerprint sensor and location and we are a bit pi**ed off it wasn't done at the stage it could have been hidden in a cavity. Just want to get the thing working, get the house completed in that the snags and the building work is done and when lockdown is over get my uncle who is an electrician but not local to come and sort a couple of post work issues out which may include hacking into walls. They aren't properly decorated as we just had it cheaply sprayed white and no woodwork has been painted yet so we need to gradually work through each room when money permits..... An example of one of our oops issues being going to wall mount a TV in a guest room so having high socket to find it actually would be better on a cabinet so we need a low socket. I did tell the other half this so I'm not taking the blame for this one.

Blew my brain a bit.... ?

Thanks both. Ordered the cheaper version. Thanks for the offer of DIN rail. We have some thanks. Not quite sure where it is going yet nor how we are going to disguise it. @Onoff

Is there any difference between this and the ones @TonyT linked to or are they the same thing?

Can anyone advise where I can get a transformer suitable for our Internorm front door fingerprint sensor. They have sent through a wiring diagram but I'm not sure exactly what transformer is needed. Can anyone point me in the direction of where I can get what is on the diagram please. Ta

Spark is here now so fingers crossed!

So it actually isn't permanently on. Today it is blinking on and off red and but we still have all zeros. Is this normal? Inverter is now right and the 'today' reading finally seems in line with the 'all' one.

Right I've now set the date and time which was wrong. That knocking is probably one of the most painfully slow processes ever. Resorted to hitting the damn thing with a rubber sandpaper block. Wife is going to look at the meter terminals later after work. Solic200 isn't working with all red lights so the electrician will need to sort that out because that's not been working since he installed it.

So do I need to get the electrician back? I need to look at it in the day when generating to see if it's flashing now but either way something isn't right. Our Solic pv immersion isn't working either it has all red lights so that's something else. Someone get me some decent tradesmen....

Solid red light and looking back through my pictures it was a solid red light a few days ago too. And it's reading zero.

??? Erm.... No.

That's the problem I can't get into anything now as the knocking thing brings up one screen and then it goes off and no amount of knocking can get back. I'll have to check it out tomorrow when it's on. I wonder if there is some additional type of monitoring system I can get. I think they do some sort of other connectors with the Growatt.

The Growatt manual isn't helpful so I'm not really sure.