Last seen: Jan 28, 2023
I got the pipes on the hot water cylinder lagged (although ran out for a small area). Shocked at the difference it made. Heat loss went from 0.46 degr...
@iancalderbank @derek-m I got some thermometers onto the pipes to/from the buffer. At flow temp of 37 degrees from ASHP to buffer 36.7 from buffer...
Oh that's interesting. I was kinda hoping it'd be a lot more of a difference! But those numbers seem to be similar to what I'm seeing.
@iancalderbank McDonald Water Storage Vented 200L cylinder
@iancalderbank The pipes around the hot water cylinder have no insulation... so that's a job for this weekend. The pipes around the HP in the boiler r...
@iancalderbank thank you. I've purchased the thermometers and will go from there.
I stayed up til way past my bedtime to watch what the DHW does. Apparently drops at 0.46 degrees an hour, which seems quite high. So 11 degrees a day....
Does using the schedule override DHW heating the rest of the time? Or do you change the "temp to start heating" so low that it never heats, until the ...
I found the heat loss calcs. House size 230sqm. For space heating the house requires 26,479 kwh/yr. The HP is expected to consume 7,653kw/yr with a ...
I worked out the COP and usage/generation for the last few days. The weather turned on Jan 14 (from 10-12 degree high to 0-4 degree high), so perhaps ...
@william1066 thanks for sharing. All makes sense. Nice to know others are going through the same tinkering, though I'm jealous of your graph! How do y...
@craig1980 ha, are any of them?
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