From Andrew Till / Mr. EV
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It’s been miserable, hasn’t it? I don’t remember the last time we had such a string of awful days. With all this rain (and no sun to power the house for free), I’m feeling contemplative. What should we replace our expensive electric radiators with?
I have some ideas, and I answer some viewer questions from the last video: https://youtu.be/PStChTdgRa0
I also talk about nightmares with our pond, energy costs and earnings for January, the G100 error on our Zappi, and much more besides.
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Chapters:
0:00 The Longest Rain
1:00 Pond
2:58 Shelly smart plug
3:29 Our solar and battery setup
4:39 January bills
6:24 Electric radiators
9:13 Solar and battery performance
11:17 Frozen batteries
13:00 Choosing a new heating system
16:01 Air-to-air heat pump
19:31 Storage heaters
21:51 Air-to-water heat pump
24:33 Ground or water-source heat pump
26:33 Viewer comments
26:41 Should we have invested the money instead?
28:26 Return on investment
29:31 "Rip down the conservatory"
31:06 Overheat the house
32:01 "Get more batteries?"
32:08 Log burner or diesel heater
33:37 "Use a diesel heater"
33:40 Octopus Cosy?
35:14 Intelligent Octopus Go
36:06 Zappi issue
38:11 Final figures
39:46 Final thoughts
40:04 Final fantasy
40:43 Chocolino wants to play
