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RE: Connecting to Midea MSmartHome using a PC

@tried2fail and @batalto (and anyone else who is using or may use the kWh/COP stats) - as you know this is still work in progress, a polite way of say...

3 years ago
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RE: The death of the ASHP?

And the rest of us seize the opportunity to throw up in the waste paper bin. I suspect whoever wrote that twaddle has a passion for seizing opportunit...

3 years ago
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RE: Connecting to Midea MSmartHome using a PC

@batalto - I'm guessing chat gpt means- always engaged (as hopefully you can see from the link padding). @derek-m - here's a crucial bit of code tha...

3 years ago
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RE: The death of the ASHP?

Very true. There is another indirect benefit to fitting heat pumps: it focuses the mind more sharply on heat loss reduction. With oil, I tolerated a...

3 years ago
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RE: The death of the ASHP?

I agree, and you were right to bring this up, along with the geographical lottery of supplies. Not only will it create a lot of real personal hardship...

3 years ago
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RE: The death of the ASHP?

FWIW, I have just calculated my global (heating and DHW combined) COP from 25th Nov 2022 (when I started collecting sufficient data) to the beginning ...

3 years ago
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RE: The death of the ASHP?

No, it was just a sort of global in the middle figure, a general case, for a general case estimate. I suspect mine is less. The trailing three hour mo...

3 years ago
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RE: A Beginner's Guide to ASHP Monitoring

@majordennisbloodnok - you make a very good point, I haven't made it clear enough that this is all voluntary, you don't have to do it. I will make an ...

3 years ago
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RE: The death of the ASHP?

Mars - that's a huge amount of oil - I used not that much more (between 1000 and 1200 litres over a whole heating season to heat my old leaky building...

3 years ago
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RE: The death of the ASHP?

Fair point, but it currently means ASHPs and oil are neck and neck per kWh. I may or may not have been a bit generous with the COP I used, and a bit h...

3 years ago
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RE: The death of the ASHP?

I don't think so, at least for oil, don't know about logs. Assume: cost of electricity = 34p per kWh used, COP of 3.5 => cost per delivered kWh =...

3 years ago
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RE: Connecting to Midea MSmartHome using a PC

@tried2fail - good to hear it is working. Note I changed the line of code that does the produced/used division a few times, trying to get it to stop p...

3 years ago
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