Voltage Optimiser

lohr500

For me, the most concerning aspect is that the EPC surveyor should even suggest such an improvement. 

tim_p

Maybe his EPC training was sponsored by such a company?

FreeBear

lohr500 said:

For me, the most concerning aspect is that the EPC surveyor should even suggest such an improvement. 

Is it an "improvement", and does it actually form part of the EPC score ?

Descrabled

The voltage optimiser does not form part of the government EPC and is not part of the score.

I recommend that anyone who has a Skipton account has EPC because it's very thorough and of course free!

MP1995

Descrabled said:

The voltage optimiser does not form part of the government EPC and is not part of the score.

I recommend that anyone who has a Skipton account has EPC because it's very thorough and of course free!

Just because yours was very thorough does not mean the same person goes all over the UK providing the same level.

EPC assessors vary widely imo and most produce a generic desktop survey to comp,etc most of their assessment before they arrive.

nologo

I had a "free" EPC from Santander, the assessor was very thorough and produced a EPC as requested, then a further email mail suggesting, floor insulation, (solid concrete?), voltage optimiser, wireless thermostat, (I have a Google nest on a stand). so to be fair I think is just a standard "upsell" suggestion

Qyburn

Our EPC here recommended we switch from oil to mains gas heating, even though we're 16 miles from the nearest gas distribution. Next door, where the house is in a valley and surrounded by full grown trees, they recommended solar panels and a wind turbine.

oldagetraveller1

"Like a ship where they run the voltage lower so bulbs last longer."

Source please. 

I spent nearly 40 years of my working life at sea as a Marine Engineer and the "domestic" Voltage was always 240V at either 50 or 60 Hz. Usually 60Hz even on British ships. In the old D.C. days 240V.

Qyburn

oldagetraveller1 said:

"Like a ship where they run the voltage lower so bulbs last longer."

Source please. 

I spent nearly 40 years of my working life at sea as a Marine Engineer and the "domestic" Voltage was always 240V at either 50 or 60 Hz. Usually 60Hz even on British ships. In the old D.C. days 240V.

I'm thinking in particular of one ship I was on, FRV Explorer. We had a separate "clean" supply via rotary converter for scientific instruments and the computer.  

oldagetraveller1

"We had a separate "clean" supply via rotary converter for scientific instruments and the computer."

Not wishing to start an off topic argument or debate but that differs from your "bulbs" post. As you write, that was a separate clean supply for it's intended purpose. Not the ship's main lighting.

And bulbs grow in The Netherlands!