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A sorry sight for sore eyes - the last 48 hours data: Dominated by defrost cycles, appalling COPs and a slight but steady decline in IAT - hea...
Well well, here's the definitive answer as to whether Midea heat pumps run the fan during defrosts (apologies for not editing the titles etc, this is ...
@kev-m - here are the data you requested, placed side by side for ease of comparison:
I do, I will post shortly, also for the 12kW variant, which is supposed to be the same hardware, but set to 12kW using the dip switches. Yes, thi...
I haven't seen such a plate with min/max outputs, instead I have been using the Midea Engineering Data manual which has tables of outputs for various ...
Interesting to know that. I did wonder whether that might have something to do with it. It wasn't a smelly installation, but there is almost always a ...
@abernyte - ah, but you are making batty assumptions!! Note I said it was a lean to. It was an old privy about 6ft by 4ft that had been 'converted' in...
Here is my last 24 hours worth of data: Three clear defrost cycles, each with a marked uptick in OAT. There is also a clear three hour period ...
Thanks for the explanation. My desired IAT is in fact 19 not 21 degrees, so the latter figures apply, and the OAT was at times close to 6 degrees, but...
Thanks for doing the modelling. It is still installed. Could you please elaborate on how why the PHE is the root cause? I don't have an absolute ...
Of course I am sceptical of heat loss calculators - after all, they are classic whatiffery models! What if the walls are made of this and are that thi...
I'm not sure they all are. The hallmark, at least on my system, of a defrost cycle is the LWT falls below the RWT (if you think about it, it does make...
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