Recent content by Bam Bam

Just realised that our tags have not been registered with the device. Will do that tonight so we've got the tag-charge option.

In my defence this is how it appeared for me when I looked at the tab I was using. Post #20 wasn't appearing at the time because I had opened the page a long time earlier.

Getting the Givenergy EVSE was one of my less good decisions. Never got to be compatible with Intelligent Octopus Go. Now it has got worse! Apparently the EVSE is entirely cloud controlled and so if Givenergy (currently in administration) goes offline owners won't be able to control our...

Oops - I missed that. Apologies to all concerned.

I think energy trading potential is probably the key determinant. Does the Alpha system fare any better on this front? If not I would go for the Fox as it is much cheaper. While you might very occasionally exceed 3.6kw when having two or three items on at once it will probably be rare in...

Have queued up this Speak to the Geek video to watch at some point...

Yes, I saw that. Let's hope they are bought out by a larger company or something. Awful time for those who work there. Not great for those like us have some kit whose future functionality is now in doubt.

They haven't been replying to customers for some time. I once got a reply several months after raising an issue, which had been resolved in the meantime by talking to one of their staff at an event stand. This was last October and I was then recommended to join the Facebook group because...

Yeah, the car just decides what it wants. Your charger presumably is a fairly dumb device that will provide charge whenever it is plugged into something that will accept it. A granny charger itself should be fine as it should be waterproof etc.. The worries would be with the plug socket (Is...

Sadly I would have to second this. The equipment is great but the company are having big troubles and being very poor with existing customers.

I'm sure nothing could ever go wrong there!?!

I bet that is a good temperature all year round. Pipes would need to be well-insulated as well, though. Otherwise you'll end up with the same temperatures as an air-source! Interesting! No chance you'd boil it then?

Ground source and water source heat pumps will be preferable to air source. Not many people have a lake, pond or river on their property so water-source is unlikely but I'll include it here. The temperature differences of water and ground compared to desired house heating temperature won't...

Ours is a manual switch outside the house. There is a process to go through to switch it over so it is a bit of a faff. Thankfully power cuts are rare, but if we did end up getting the 'rolling blackouts' some scaremongers are now mentioning online it would be a pain. But less of a pain than...

No, our earth spike was only installed when we had the backup power system added. Ancient British technology.