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RE: Heat pumps and on/off working - starting to quantify it

That sounds very plausible, except for the fact the LWT rise appears to start just before the RWT rise, see at around 0703h. The four phase pattern is...

3 years ago
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RE: Heat pumps and on/off working - starting to quantify it

Here are the minute by minute energy values alongside the minute by minute temp values I posted earlier. Note they are Wh, not kWh, and, as a sanity c...

3 years ago
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RE: Heat pumps and on/off working - starting to quantify it

@rod - I do have a separate third party kWh meter that supplies only the heat pump but maddeningly it is not modbus enabled, meaning I can only get re...

3 years ago
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RE: Heat pumps and on/off working - starting to quantify it

Anatomy of a cycle: here is a single cycle from my heat pump, from around 0640 to 0720 this morning. This has been the pattern for the last few days, ...

3 years ago
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RE: Heat pumps and on/off working - starting to quantify it

I think you may well have a good point here, particularly when the OAT gets into the defrost range. I will be doing some experiments once we have cold...

3 years ago
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RE: Heat pumps and on/off working - starting to quantify it

Pretty much so, I think the core question is: do the savings made during a setback amount to more or less than the extra costs incurred (because of lo...

3 years ago
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RE: Heat pumps are more than twice as efficient as fossil fuel heating systems in cold temperatures - Research

And the authors are hardly without an agenda. From their front page: "The Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP)® is an independent, non-partisan, non-go...

3 years ago
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RE: Heat pumps are more than twice as efficient as fossil fuel heating systems in cold temperatures - Research

From near the top of the actual 'research' paper (BTB called 'Coming in from the Cold' - note quite the academic tone. Will the research group's next ...

3 years ago
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RE: Heat pumps and on/off working - starting to quantify it

This is exactly what I get when I click on the link, and it (it is everything on the screen) still has all the problems I mentioned: No labels...

3 years ago
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RE: Real world connection to a heat pump over modbus

@mikefl - I'm sure that's right, and useful to know, thanks for the contribution, but I think a lot of people (including me) are just not ready to tak...

3 years ago
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RE: Real world connection to a heat pump over modbus

Oh, for heavens sake, this is absolutely why I hate Home Assistant. Running that sqlite3_analyzer tool on the HA database corrupted my HA database, an...

3 years ago
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RE: Real world connection to a heat pump over modbus

@derek-m - HA uses a sqlite database by default, but for those who find that doesn't cause them enough pain, they can upgrade the pain by going for a ...

3 years ago
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