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I agree, but at the moment the results are quite far apart. That is what we have to reconcile. One method is over-correcting, or the other is under-co...
I haven't forgotten there is at least one other way to approach this problem: compare the observed energy use during a setback with the expected energ...
@jamespa - perhaps more importantly, recall that we are using a corrected energy in, the 1.18 correction factor that (on average) brings the calculate...
(a) this is in fact something of an unknown. The external kWh meter reads all energy going in to the heat pump, and as both circulating pumps are supp...
@jamespa is using my data, meaning I can explain how the setbacks are done, and the other factors involved: (1) my system is always on weather compe...
I agree, and I hope you will agree that this is what beneficial collaboration can achieve, which I think it is fair to say is still happening here, de...
@jamespa - I have no doubt at all in my mind that you are a fair and good-natured person, based on what I have seen on this forum. You have also genui...
No one likes being told they come across as being patronising and arrogant, all the more so if they really are that way. I wrote that earlier remark (...
There is a difference between what in medicine we call clinical significance and statistical significance (which is boils down to a test of how likely...
@sunandair - I am very aware that at times @jamepa and @derek-m can come across as patronising self-appointed experts who know it all, and the rest of...
The latest analysis by @jamespa of my Midea data (see recent posts in this thread) suggests the savings may be higher, around 20%, for a six hour over...
It isn't 'very simple', but for systems that have a modbus interface, it is very possible to get a lot of data. Here is the last two days data from my...
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