Last seen: Aug 15, 2025
I haven't changed any settings yet, just making observations, and some of them are pretty odd. I started trying to get a baseline instantaneous COP...
@derek-m - it's just another example of MCS obfuscation. They don't use Midea in the product name. You have to search for the model number. If you sea...
Rather bizarrely, I got the M-thermal Service Manual from Freedom's website: Bottom of the list on that page, click on the box on the left to sel...
@mjr - agreed. Here's a photo from the M-thermal service manual (I will try and track down where I got it from) showing two things: (a) S6 where w...
@batalto - see what I said about the price diffs a couple of posts ago - there is a difference, but it is not very much, which fits with same hardware...
@batalto - brilliant, you are a hero! It looks like S6 is upper mid position on the MAIN BOARD in the drawing just above the one showing the switch se...
@grahamh - yes, that helps, I will have a look inside the unit when it is less damp outside and see if I can make sense of things. Presumably if a 16k...
Reviewing the entire history of this installation to date, I think the key points can be summarised as follows: All the design calculations were don...
@grahamh - I've not been able to find anything in the manual yet, but no rush, need to see if there is a problem at low ambients before fixing it. Hav...
@grahamh - its a very impressive spreadsheet, how you managed to keep on top of all those lookup formulas is beyond me. I did wonder if gh was you, bu...
Apologies in advance - this is a very long post... @derek-m - you are of course right, as I feared you would be. The rad sizing was based on the hig...
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