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That just means that you can't max out all your circuits at the same time. I'm pretty sure that's considered normal. If instead of FIR panels you use a heat pu
by tgsovlerkhgsel 6y ago
That just means that you can't max out all your circuits at the same time. I'm pretty sure that's considered normal.
If instead of FIR panels you use a heat pump (isn't that the main point of electrical heating), would you still need 32A? And if you're cooking and baking with 10 kW, would you still need heating at the same time? And a 7 kW heat pump water heater should give you ~10 liters per minute of hot shower water.
Seems like any automatic system that could make sure not all high-draw consumers get turned on at the same time would be enough. It does mean that if someone is taking a shower while two people are vacuuming with all the lights on and the kitchen is cooking up a feast, you wouldn't be getting any additional heat or electric car charging, for the hour or so that such high demand can last, but that doesn't seem to be a serious problem (especially as this would only affect older houses).
And you said it's required for new construction, so I assume they'd be putting in 3-phase for those.
The main power lines for the whole street could be a problem, so yes, this may require some new construction. Might as well put down FTTH while at it.
Additionally, if houses add solar, it should reduce typical demand on the grid, as a lot of the current wouldn't have to flow all the way from some substation but would be supplied either within each house or from neighbors.
- pmlnr 6y agoHeat pump is a no, thank you. 10k for air source, noisy, ugly, big; 3x100m deep holes for ground source, don't even want to know the price. EDIT: for <5k I'd have the whole house on FIR panels and electric boiler, then I could spend another 5k on solar.
- tgsovlerkhgsel 6y agoHow do FIR panels compare to heat pumps in terms of energy efficiency? Are they really able to reach similar comfort levels at much lower temperatures as advertised?
- amluto 6y ago$9k buys a three zone ductless multi split heat pump, installed, in a area with very high labor costs. This heats and cools and can modulate to a reasonable degree. (This price is for a Fujitsu system — I don’t know the price for other vendors.) Maybe you can install a cheaper FIR system, but that system is actually just electric resistance heat. Sure, maybe you can operate in a regime where the mean radiant temperature where you are is enough higher than the actual air temperature to save some power, but that had better be a pretty big effect to overcome the 3-4x efficiency improvement of a heat pump. And did I mention that the heat pump can cool, too?