[Solved] Sudden drop in COP
I've had a sudden drop in COP, from around 3.8-4.4 a few weeks ago, to 2.4-3.0 recently. Any thoughts as to why?
I have a Samsung 8kw ASHP that for the last month or two I've only been using for DHW. I don't have any advanced monitoring, just the energy use and generation output by the unit itself. Over the last week the COP has been way down and I'm not sure why.
I heat up the DHW once a day between 2pm and 3:30pm, 200L water tank with 3m square heating coil. The unit switches into quiet mode when DWH is active. It's not a heavy use set up, one shower a day and maybe some washing up.
I don't have the heating on this time of year and don't want to turn it on to see what that is running at.
Samsung Gen6 8kw ASHP in a two bed victorian mid terrace.
My guess would be that the unit is measuring combined COP for heating and hot water. Therefore because now you are only heating water at a lower COP than heating your average drops.
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I don't have any advanced monitoring, just the energy use and generation output by the unit itself.
How do the energy use and generation output differ between the good COP and bad COP weeks? Is it that the energy used has increased or the energy generated has decreased to give you the lower COP?
My Samsung Gen6 8kw had a bit of brain fade earlier in the year when the recorded energy generation figures became ridiculously high - 1,398kWh for one week in February. The energy consumption was recorded as a (more believable) 90kWh, so a fantastic COP of over 15 🤗 . I knew something was really wrong when I saw that the recorded weekly operation time for that week was 524 hours - around 75hrs a day. Samsung Technical Support talked me through a reset of the Wired Remote Controller and that appeared to sort the issue.
@bontwoody The thing is I have been using it for only DHW for a month or two, i was getting higher cop just on the hot water, so it can’t be that I’ve turned off the heating.
Samsung Gen6 8kw ASHP in a two bed victorian mid terrace.
@sjn Okay so it was a software issue. It appears my energy use is going up, but my energy generation is staying about the same according to the numbers.
Samsung Gen6 8kw ASHP in a two bed victorian mid terrace.
@ecobaker Yes, it must have been a software bug disrupting my historic energy numbers. I haven't looked at them recently so I should check to see if they are still ok.
Your generation staying about the same makes sense for a consistent use of DHW so it is the increased usage that is unexpected.
One thing I have noticed is that there is some rounding going on with the displayed energy numbers - the sum of the energy figures for each day does not add up to the displayed total for the week. I wonder if with DHW only the usage and generation will be quite low so the rounding errors may have a bigger significance to your COP calculations, possibly amplifying any week to week changes due to different outside air temperature 🤔 .
@sjn I've seen this on other brands as well. Rounding for small consumption (for instance only hot water) really messes up the accuracy.
Another thing we've seen is that some manufacturers just add on a flat energy use per hour (during periods when the heat pump is not running). Maybe Samsung did a software update recently and started doing this as well?
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@hcas Thing is I've not updated the software, that's actually quite hard to do with Samsung as its not directly connected to the internet.
Samsung Gen6 8kw ASHP in a two bed victorian mid terrace.
SOLVED
So it turns out the problem is, I am a massive Idiot.
A few weeks ago, I had used most of my hot water, and needed a quick shower as I was in a rush and had to go out. So I put on forced mode for DWH and turned on the immersion heater, which I normally have turned off, to turn on after 15 mins. When I had enough hot water I turned off forced mode but forget to turn off the immersion in the field settings.
So my sudden drop in COP has been down to my immersion firing up and helping heat my hot water for the last few weeks 😭
Turned it off and I got 4.1 cop for DHW today
Samsung Gen6 8kw ASHP in a two bed victorian mid terrace.
Glad to hear it's resolved, and wasn't a major issue.
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