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That is undeniably true and is something I meant to mention. But sometimes it can be good news, as it was for me. I thought I had 11kW trying to cover...
I can't even find it in the manuals, apart from in the modbus table. I wonder, where did you find it, and that it should be 35°C, which seems rather h...
I agree. It is very useful to have real data. It really is very easy if you have a monitored heat pump. Given a steady IAT, then your energy del...
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Here is the SPAB (Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings) research on measured in situ U-Values vs calculated (spreadsheet standard tables et...
28kW - that is what spreadsheet based heat loss assessments do. I had similar but not quite as large variations in assessments. I expect I am telli...
@travellingwave — Thanks for your very detailed account of what you have done. I have a very similar situation, 200-300 year old stone building, solid...
You might be able to, have a look at address registers 201 to 208, in particular 204 (from the wired controller manual modbus table). Try reading it f...
@tasos, please do try to concentrate. That is the opposite of what I said: "both [LWT and RWT] are still above the IAT so heat will still flow from th...
The LWT does indeed become equal to the RWT towards the end of each cycle (taking a cycle as trough to trough) but it both are still above the IAT so ...
We have pretty much established by direct observation that Midea R32 units (and perhaps R290 units, less data available) modulate at most OATs (anythi...
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