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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article … ology.html
Are we going to like those people who removes dpf filters of diesel cars and van by setting up a “bypass” service if customers complains about their oven and fridge switching off? I reckon we have an advantage there…
Re: Interesting stuff in the papers…
Hotpoint were trialling this a few years back with limited customers mostly staff a little box that was from Npower that controlled the FF cycles to as has been said in the article reduce load on the power stations at peek times I don’t really see the problem as it does not run any more or less frequent than it would do normally it just changes when it does so ,
The article makes it sound like it totally under their control, I believe its more like the unit it told to avoid running in specific time bands and calculates heat loss and works out when to run to maintain temperature waist avoiding those peek times.
Make sense to be honest
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Would this lead to unusual faults in the future? I used to have a Citroen Picasso few years ago, it developed a rather unusual fault but it was common failures, basically it loses engine power for no apparent reasons.
After several garage visits and no one found the fault. I did some digging after three hours on the net, found it was faulty brake light switch that sits on top of the brake pedal. When it wears out, it created a play thus triggering the brake lights on whilst driving, being a computer controlled car, the ecu thought the brakes were coming on therefore stopped the fuel supply to the engine hence loss of power.
I reckon this power device would cause unusual faults.
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The sensationalised stuff about your appliances stopping at EU demand is just the normal Dailymail anti EU crap is evil crap, I’m surprised they did not manage to blame immigrants some how lol
Its purely about load balancing, if you can manipulate certain things like fridges, aircon and certain heating systems to avoid certain times it could reduce potential blackouts and problems.
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madangler1 wrote:
Its purely about load balancing, if you can manipulate certain things like fridges, aircon and certain heating systems to avoid certain times it could reduce potential blackouts and problems.It’s all very well to manipulate certain things but surely the power companies should produce more power or at least give us free solar panels as most people draw power during daytime. I think the technology to fit on to appliances is a cop out that the power companies are failing to do something about it.
With all the drive to reduce power consumption, is there a need for such devices whereas local councils are replacing their street lights for ultra modern LEDs, modern appliances are fast approaching to be A+ grade, companies are replacing their fluorescence lights for LEDs. Actually the UK power consumption has gone down due to the fact that electricity is expensive and people are thinking twice before turning tumble dryer on on a warm windy sunny day!
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Nat grid only allow a maximum of 0.2HZ variation from the target 50HZ so the Mail saying appliances would trigger at 47HZ is complete bollox IMO.
As you say Twicknix, price will probably sort their load balancing worries out more effectively than ‘frequency aware’ appliances.
Mind you, if it puts £40 on the price and means more breakdowns then I’m all for it 8)
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