Recent content by PDB33

In planning load management for the EV charger, where should the current transformer be placed? My smart meter cables go to a junction box that sends one pair of wires to the distribution board in the house and the other pair to a mini distribution board (RCD and MCB) for the charger. I see...

Having learnt somewhere that older Model S vehicles with FSD were eligible for a free camera upgrade but suspecting it was USA only, I thought I would find out if it applied in the UK by submitting a service request. It went in on the app on 12 May and was quickly approved for a mobile visit on...

Mine too, 1p up on daytime rate, 5.145p up on standing charge.

What’s the least I have to do to stop the IO app polling the car and waking it up while parked at the airport for a week? Options seem to be: In app, Accounts and Settings, Devices, Smart Charging button (says Disable IO from controlling your device). The device is the car, not the charger. On...

I have air-air heat pump units in two bedrooms, which they heat in no time, and plan to install three more in the other rooms in which we mainly live (replacing the outside unit with a larger one) so we burn less heating oil. The installer’s calculation of the heat output in kW required for the...

Have just received Octopus email with options when Go (5p/13.8p) runs out Jan 14. Can I sign up with IO now, to start on Jan 15, or should I wait until a few days beforehand? Is the IO T&C document available – I can find the generic Octopus T&C online but not one specific to IO. Thanks.

On Octopus Go: 2 EVs dishwasher Immersion heater for hot water (tops up heat from solar thermal panel) e-bike battery, Stihl batteries for lawn mower, strimmer etc. on smart switch (small beer, I know) Have not yet persuaded her indoors that clothes should sit in the washing machine from 04.30...

Mine is Model S 75D, hers is BMW i3, both since 2017. Agree about i3 looks - but there's little between one's feet and the vehicle in front. I would not want to hit anything in it.

Completely agree about air-air HP. We installed a split system with wall units in main bedroom (2.5kW) and spare room (4.2kW – room is larger and always cold), initially with cooling in mind. They are great on the very few days when it’s uncomfortably hot at night, but are used mostly for...

7912kWh in 2021 in 4-bedroom detached house. Oil boiler for heating (no gas in the village), hot water from immersion heater (mainly at Octopus 5p at night), electricity for everything else. Occasional brief use of air-air HP in main bedroom. Regular hob, not induction. Two EVs, combined annual...

My first Europe trip is in May. Is anything required to alter headlight beam?

My 2017 S 75D thinks I like to linger over lunch. kW + SOC (e.g. 80kW at 30% SOC) is never greater than 110.

I did nothing and mine renewed at the old rate on Jan 14

That's how I park at home, and fortunately was parked that way when Model S had to be towed out onto the road and onto the truck after electrical death owing to "Upon investigation found the 12V support to BMS to be at fault due to a lack of tension on wiring terminal" April 2019. I think that...

Agree it’s physics and not conspiracy theory, but arguably the physics could have been better had the regulators required from the network operators a different balance between shareholder dividends and investment in infrastructure.