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RE: Do setbacks save energy without compromising comfort?

Same here when it gets below to around 5 degrees and below, which is why I am surprised I didn't have any defrost cycles last night. Surely that ...

3 years ago
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RE: Do setbacks save energy without compromising comfort?

The coldest night of this heating season so far, briefly got down to 2 degrees outside and 16.4 inside, but by 0712 hours the IAT was back to 18 degre...

3 years ago
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RE: Do setbacks save energy without compromising comfort?

I finally found something in the minimalmodbus manual on how to read individual bits from a 16 bit register: Reading individual bits from a 16-bit...

3 years ago
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RE: Do setbacks save energy without compromising comfort?

@derek-m - thanks. There are lots of versions of this table around, and they are all slightly different. Here's a scan of the same part of the table f...

3 years ago
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RE: Do setbacks save energy without compromising comfort?

@derek-m - I am very wary of writing to any register until I am absolutely sure what I am writing to, hence the attempts to reliably read the data bef...

3 years ago
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RE: Do setbacks save energy without compromising comfort?

@derek-m - I agree, see above, the efficiency loss caused by raising the LWT matters, but I still think empirical data is the best way to determine ho...

3 years ago
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RE: Do setbacks save energy without compromising comfort?

I have in fact covered this elsewhere, things do get rather scattered all over the place, and @derek-m also covers it above. It is one of the factors ...

3 years ago
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RE: Do setbacks save energy without compromising comfort?

Another possibly (or possibly not) interesting insight. I have now changed (in the data file) the Set LWT during the non WC period to what it actually...

3 years ago
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RE: Do setbacks save energy without compromising comfort?

I have now determined that the 1800 run of the auto-adapt script yesterday somehow turned off the WCC, and put the heat pump into fixed flow temp mode...

3 years ago
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RE: Do setbacks save energy without compromising comfort?

"Which of those wins" - that is exactly the question that I am trying here to answer empirically. It is fair to say that a number of opinions have bee...

3 years ago
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RE: Do setbacks save energy without compromising comfort?

But we aren't trying to back fill the preceding valley, so to speak. Consider setbacks of varying lengths, let's say four hours and eight hours (set b...

3 years ago
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RE: Do setbacks save energy without compromising comfort?

This is absolutely the way to go, and the only way to get real world answers. Your sudden jump at 0700 (which I think may refer to 0600 to 0700, de...

3 years ago
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