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@robs — I get effectively the same answer, with a slightly different approach/layout: I reverse engineered your 1.98 kWh to get ...
Strictly speaking, running in weather compensation mode the heat pump tries to achieve a set LWT, based on a curve which you have determined will heat...
Here are the areas for the 'non-defrost' cycle shown above, area 1 is energy saved during off, area 2 is extra energy used during recovery, given a ba...
Sorry, my fault, I only saw defrost, not its prefix. A 'normal' cycling stop and start then, and happening because your 'thermostat' (room stat?) is t...
Indeed. Another nail in the voltage-for-SoC coffin.
It looks to me as though something is not right about that chart, chiefly not a typical defrost pattern, COP is also alarmingly high for a defrost. Ca...
I'm pretty sure I noticed they are not all the same, even with the same (LiFePO4) chemistry and conditions. I am sure there is a definitive table, but...
Mindful of the fact this is not a boat forum, but still perhaps relevant, I decided against the blue box premium because (a) Victron's tendency to tie...
To answer the original question, the net result of the amps hours in to and amps hours out out of the battery determines the state of charge. I do...
Other infra? Rather infra dig, I dare say. More seriously, stopping banned scum from finding an easy way onto the GMC register came up during the Sele...
To expand on the Select Committee idea, here is the transcript of a recent (Jan 2026) Health and Social Care Committee hearing into the GMC, another r...
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