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RE: Heat Pump Truth or Myth#1 - Keeping it running 24/7 uses less energy

At the risk of sounding like a tin foil hat conspiracy theorist, I have 100% resisted having a smart meter installed, despite heroic attempts by my en...

3 years ago
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RE: Massive Electricity Cost

Interim report back: not much to report. I have now got all the uptairs radiators to within a degree of each other, all rooms same temp except bathroo...

3 years ago
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RE: Accessing and analysing data from your heat pump

This is one of the many hurdles, too much choice, making it very difficult to decide which one to go with. Homely, Home Assistant, Domoticz, emonCMS, ...

3 years ago
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RE: Accessing and analysing data from your heat pump

Hugh, Midea go even further, they publish the modbus register in the Operation Manual that comes with the wired controller. But what they don't do is ...

3 years ago
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RE: Heat Pump Truth or Myth#1 - Keeping it running 24/7 uses less energy

Despite what I said earlier, there is still one thing that bothers me. Consider boiling and then simmering a saucepan of water: to get the water to bo...

3 years ago
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RE: Accessing and analysing data from your heat pump

@oswiu - I've got a lot to learn. I come from the Morris Minor era of electrical engineering, where the most complex thing I had to do was spray WD40 ...

3 years ago
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RE: Accessing and analysing data from your heat pump

@oswiu - interesting, all gist to the mill. Here are some screen grabs of some things I have come across. From a Midea M-Thermal 'consumer' brochure...

3 years ago
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RE: 14kW Midea ASHP in an old leaky building

Yes, all the stuff I have found is for Midea AC units, but I reason they might be very similar. I also tried using midea-discover (after pip instal...

3 years ago
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RE: Accessing and analysing data from your heat pump

Indeed, I have contributed to these other discussions. There is no doubt the data is there, and it also seems equally beyond doubt that the manufact...

3 years ago
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RE: Heat Pump Truth or Myth#1 - Keeping it running 24/7 uses less energy

Exactly, this is the problem I have, and it happens even with a small setback to say 16 degrees, but that has the effect of turning the heat pump off ...

3 years ago
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RE: Heat Pump Truth or Myth#1 - Keeping it running 24/7 uses less energy

Very interesting Kev. There has always been a lot of smoke and mirrors on this subject, extra energy need to raise rather than maintain temperature et...

3 years ago
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RE: 14kW Midea ASHP in an old leaky building

@batalto - I have been looking at the Midea controller 'Operation Manual' (the small ~4in x 4in white booklet with the QR codes on the front) that cam...

3 years ago
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