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@iancalderbank - thanks as ever for your helpful detailed response. I might yet cave in and end up using either ESP (electrical) or the emonHP systems...
I wonder if the numbers are the wrong way round? Perhaps should be 19/5 used, 37/15 delivered. Interesting to note that your tank temp drop behaviou...
We may have covered this before, if so apologies: how do you get the DS18B20 data into your monitoring system? I rather suspect the answer is going to...
I have been looking at these, but they are not easily integrated, so far as I can see, into a (and my) USB connected modbus wired system, because the ...
You must have very long evenings! Or the house was already at near design temps despite it being -10 outside, or it is a very low heat loss house with...
Not at all! The real world is much more complicated, none or two or more patients might have died (it's a small sample; maybe all the relevant risk fa...
That's going back quite some time! I used to do little sketches to achieve the same thing. This allows me to introduce another of my pet concept...
I need to formulate (maybe even model?) what are currently rather vague thoughts about terminology, but what I am getting at is the idea that in days ...
This raises, at least for me, some interesting questions. I don't get the modern obsession with modelling. When I was growing up, models were somethin...
@jamespa - I agree about the need for stats on real world numbers on system failures caused by freezing, but I am not sure they exist, meaning we have...
@jamespa - I am still stuck in an uncertainty loop about the effects of glycol on system performance. Starting at the beginning, why add glycol in the...
But does the heat pump know it has glycol in it? Isn't output normally controlled by the weather compensation curve (water law in Samsung) - if it is ...
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