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High Voltage - What about a light in the loft? I've left mine on by accident and only noticed the next time I've gone up there.
Nope. We don't even have a loft. Or rather we do . . . technically . . . but the "loft" is only the centre part of the roof and at it's highest point, maybe, 3 feet highHigh Voltage - What about a light in the loft? I've left mine on by accident and only noticed the next time I've gone up there.
Just put a lagging kit around the hot water tank - why Oh why does it look so easy to do in the Screwfix catalogue when it's just the tank in the middle of a room with no wires or pipes connected to it and then you try to do it and immediately you're in an enclosed area, that's HOT and you can't reach around it - but still any lagging is better than no lagging
And here's the central heating pump we've got - any idea of the power consumption this'll have??
Thank you very much, I'm not going to go back and check my fig'rins at the moment, but I think I'd worked on a 100W usage for ease of maths
Ah, OK. I can't think of any other possibilities.Nope. We don't even have a loft. Or rather we do . . . technically . . . but the "loft" is only the centre part of the roof and at it's highest point, maybe, 3 feet high
Imagine, the cottage is only 1 room deep and you can see the slope of the roof running the length of the cottage, front and back encroaching a couple of feet
I know. If we lived in a sprawling mansion with various extensions and underground garages and servants quarters and a long drive with automatic gates and flood lights all the way up, then I'd have loads of places still to look . . . but we don'tAh, OK. I can't think of any other possibilities.
Is it possible there's something else wired in somewhere which is hidden? When I moved into my place, the wiring was a little eccentric with things connected in unexpected ways. For instance, the immersion heater switch outside the bathroom actually switched the garden lights on! There were loads of cable runs which ended up connected to nothing although some of them were live. All the redundant wiring has been stripped out now but I still have a cable which comes up outside from under the extension. It's not live and my electrician suspects the other 'end' is buried somewhere under the concrete floor.
Now there's a name I haven't seen in a while. My grandad worked at Sangamo in Canada.So my PC consumes 180 watts when running at 100 percent CPU...
So 2.16kwh over 12 hours...
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Last calibrated in 1969Now there's a name I haven't seen in a while. My grandad worked at Sangamo in Canada.
I like smart meters cos then you dont have to let some cunt in the house and move all the shit from under the stairs so he can look at it
It's also handy if you grow weed, cos then they don't come around and smell the weed.... not that i grow weed obvs
Maybe not the ones who successfully bypass their meters...This is gonna badly impact on ganga prices
It's called an ecoforest geo, ground source, 5-22kW output (variable). Claims COP of 5, but that will be under ideal conditions, which of course don't exist in the real world. I'll be very happy if it manages 3.5.
Explain please . . . "Please, speak as you might to a young child, or a golden retriever" (Jeremy Irons - Margin Call)Well, heat pump is in and working, it’s early days yet but so far output is 17.8kWh for 3.3kWh of electricity input, for a performance factor of 5.4 or thereabouts. If it continues like this that’ll be a winner.
I've had to chase up OVO today, they seem to still be struggling with getting those clowns at SSE to sort out the over charging issue OVO inherited when I was transferred over.
ATM my electricity account is showing a estimated meter reading of 17412 compared to the actual reading of 14114, some 3298kWh more than it should be, which at £0.2053kWh equals an overcharge of £677.
My joint electricity/gas account balance is currently showing -£108, and an estimate that I'll be at -£639 in 12 months at the new rates, so that £677 credit plus a reduction in my estimated usage over the coming 12 months should result in my DD being reduced even further than they have already done since I first complained.
I belatedly discovered that Bulb (as was) allow you to rein-in the excess and pay a minimum of £40ishThat's why I dislike DDs for bills, especially when there is such increases in costs / blatant profiteering.
I prefer to use standing orders, at least I can control the amount paid over !
There's possibly a 'discount' for paying by DD so take this consideration before cancelling. Although any discount is probably not worth the time and effort you're putting into trying to resolve it. You will likely find once it is resolved you'll get a credit put on your account anyway.Now I will activate my automatic response and cancel the DD until this is sorted out.
Explain please . . . "Please, speak as you might to a young child, or a golden retriever" (Jeremy Irons - Margin Call)
Thank you very much
Probably somewhere else in the tread but damned if I can trawl through 23 pages. What sort of property do you have and are you out in the sticks?I’ll try… A heat pump works by extracting low-temperature heat from a large source (mine is 3/4 mile of 4” pipes buried 4’ underground under about 1/2 acre of field) and ‘concentrating’ the heat to useful temperatures for heating, hot water etc.
To do this it needs to pump liquid through the pipes (so the liquid can warm up to the temperature underground - currently 8C), and also run a compressor (like - exactly like in fact - a fridge) plus a load of other electronics and pumps and fans and so on - it therefore uses electricity to run - in my case after running for about 48 hours it had used 3.3kWh.
One can also measure how much heat it has managed to extract and concentrate, and then distribute to the heating system and hot water in the house, over the same period - in this case 17.8kWh.
The ratio between these figures is the performance factor, the efficiency of the system. Here on these number it’s 5.4. This means for every kWh of energy (electricity) one puts in one gets 5.4kWh of energy (heat) out, effectively reducing the energy input requirements for the house by a factor of 5.4.
This of course reduces the cost per kWh required by the same factor - so at current electricity prices from 30p/kWh required to about 5.5p/kWh - cheaper than gas! (on these figures - which are higher than expected, so it’ll probably settle down but still be somewhere between 3 and 4x efficiency).
And of course as the input is electricity it can be sourced entirely from renewable sources (which as I’m with octopus it’s supposed to be), so as well as being cheaper than gas, it’s greener than gas too (as gas can obviously never be renewable).
Hope that all makes sense. There is a bunch of physics contained within the phrase ‘concentrating the heat’ up at the top there, which I could take a stab at explaining, but in another post (and only if anyone requests!)
Say, for instance, "one" didn't have access to such a sizeable "garden" as you've got for your system . . . is there a break point where a ground heat pump isn't really viable?I’ll try… A heat pump works by extracting low-temperature heat from a large source (mine is 3/4 mile of 4” pipes buried 4’ underground under about 1/2 acre of field) and ‘concentrating’ the heat to useful temperatures for heating, hot water etc.
To do this it needs to pump liquid through the pipes (so the liquid can warm up to the temperature underground - currently 8C), and also run a compressor (like - exactly like in fact - a fridge) plus a load of other electronics and pumps and fans and so on - it therefore uses electricity to run - in my case after running for about 48 hours it had used 3.3kWh.
One can also measure how much heat it has managed to extract and concentrate, and then distribute to the heating system and hot water in the house, over the same period - in this case 17.8kWh.
The ratio between these figures is the performance factor, the efficiency of the system. Here on these number it’s 5.4. This means for every kWh of energy (electricity) one puts in one gets 5.4kWh of energy (heat) out, effectively reducing the energy input requirements for the house by a factor of 5.4.
This of course reduces the cost per kWh required by the same factor - so at current electricity prices from 30p/kWh required to about 5.5p/kWh - cheaper than gas! (on these figures - which are higher than expected, so it’ll probably settle down but still be somewhere between 3 and 4x efficiency).
And of course as the input is electricity it can be sourced entirely from renewable sources (which as I’m with octopus it’s supposed to be), so as well as being cheaper than gas, it’s greener than gas too (as gas can obviously never be renewable).
Hope that all makes sense. There is a bunch of physics contained within the phrase ‘concentrating the heat’ up at the top there, which I could take a stab at explaining, but in another post (and only if anyone requests!)
There's possibly a 'discount' for paying by DD so take this consideration before cancelling. Although any discount is probably not worth the time and effort you're putting into trying to resolve it. You will likely find once it is resolved you'll get a credit put on your account anyway.
They told me it would take 6 weeks to sort. 3 Months later and it wasn't sorted.
At this point bypass customer service and go straight to the complaints department. It will magically get sorted within a week and they will give you a credit.
Probably somewhere else in the tread but damned if I can trawl through 23 pages. What sort of property do you have and are you out in the sticks?