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I agree, I have even been known to call some of the 'optimistic' energy output claims 'compressorgate' claims. The thing I was trying to get across is...
I'm not sure, but I think those tables in the engineering data manuals are supposed to be direct measurements in lab conditions, perhaps not for all t...
There is certainly a visual widening, but as I said, as a proportion of the absolute OAT value, it is about the same across the range, perhaps in fact...
I am still not sure we have got our collective heads round what is going on. One way of looking at a defrost is that it is a setback, insofar as the h...
Thanks for this. It certainly is detailed! And I think it generally confirms the idea that most of the energy used in a defrost comes from the heat co...
Indeed. In many ways, a defrost is a setback, with the added complication of other stuff happening as well.
@jamespa — thank you. I eyeballed the reference line, and it fell conveniently on the '20' grid line (convenient that is for doing the fills in ImageJ...
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