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Of course weather compensation will lower the LWT as the OAT rises, but that rise in that chart is over 12 hours, while an individual defrost lasts mi...
Thanks, that is very kind of you.
I think you will find that the person who introduced the idea that lag might explain some of what we see was me!
But is it rising? Looking at my composite image, it isn't rising at the relevant time. And even it it was, which it isn't, how could a rising OAT supp...
@jamespa — thanks. But the coal is added during the defrost, the shark's fin in energy in happens while there is still 'negative' energy out, ie heat ...
I did try to visualise how the water circulation might somehow influence things eg by mixing, but got stuck on the old train idea, the flow is a serie...
Forgot to post this earlier (wrote it this morning then forgot about it), still worth posting, I hope. Exactly, indeed, as I said earlier: ...
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