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Last seen: Oct 21, 2026
Don't feel bad about this, intellectual rigour is essential, and I would rather be corrected than wrong! I think I get your reasoning, especially wi...
Perhaps another way of putting it is this: yes, the heat loss will be marginally lower during a setback, and we could even at a stretch call that 'sav...
I certainly welcome you questioning my data results and conclusions, as I have no divine way of getting things right, and am just as fallible as the n...
Very prudent. @jamespa- I'm working on it at the moment, I think I am onto something, but at the moment I am only about 50% sure I have the answer, ...
I do something similar behind the scenes, though my inputs for energy in are amps and volts. I then average them over the hour (I found this gives the...
I am not convinced you are going about this the right way. Normally you take a hypothesis (model), use it to make a prediction, and then test that aga...
I would, but at the moment I have what I think is the right balance between getting a saving and comfort. I have a bit of a cliff edge as the IAT fall...
The latest last 24 hours of data: Pretty much as before, steady and mild OAT at around 10 degrees, heat pump cycling around twice an hour to m...
I have never said all heat pumps are Mideas, quite the opposite, nor have I ever said all systems have primary and secondary pumps, again, quite the o...
@bob77 - I think your understanding is correct, at least for some systems - other heat pumps may/will vary, but on a Midea setup, the secondary pump i...
@derek-m - I think we need to consider whether there is a heat exchanger or not, and if so, which pump we are talking about. In my case there is, and ...
@bob77 - with the caveat that I have a heat exchanger, and so a primary and secondary pump - it does look like the secondary pump runs continuously wh...
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