Last seen: Jan 13, 2026
I'm also inclined to look into how a defrost is actually done. How much is just passive transfer of heat/energy (the coil simply becomes a radiator, a...
I've now calculated the minute by minute energy flows during the first hour in my previous chart, which had a defrost right at the start of the hour. ...
Yes, by calculating it manually from the minute data, which doesn't happen automatically as it does for hourly data. It's in the manually calculated m...
As far as I am aware, the majority, if not all, of the energy used in a defrost comes from the hot water in the radiator circuit. When I look at my mi...
@majordennisbloodnok — The Two Ronnies Mastermind sketch was in the youtube sidebar, stunningly clever comic writing, but it might also serve as the m...
This is an interesting point. Being slightly tongue in cheek, do boilers somehow tweak the laws of physics? Surely the laws of physics are heat source...
...of a red face and cold ankles, as someone, not me, once said. I have a live open fireplace, and wouldn't be without it.
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