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RE: Who's your electricity provider and what's your tariff?

This is insane! What happens when it breaks down (because it will)? What happens when it gets hacked (because it will)? What happens when workin...

8 months ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: The good, the bad and the not that great – my heat pump installation

On the face of it, perhaps, but we do want the pump to take all the heat the heat pump is delivering. But 'set to max' is a bit opaque to say the leas...

8 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: In the Bleak Midwinter... Midea heat pump performance, poor COP and windchill in action

A similar pattern happened again last night and into this morning, low overnight OAT, followed by rapid rise in OAT fooling the heat pump into thinkin...

8 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: The good, the bad and the not that great – my heat pump installation

That's actually not too bad, or, to put it another way, your heat pump can output enough heat to heat your DHW tank at an acceptable rate. The Freedom...

8 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: The good, the bad and the not that great – my heat pump installation

And total duration, as I can't see the time anywhere, to get from 20 to 45 degrees DHW tank temp? Agree the flow rate effectively remains constant. ...

8 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: In the Bleak Midwinter... Midea heat pump performance, poor COP and windchill in action

This has been the focus of much interest. It is located somewhere in the outside box, but I have yet to discover exactly where. Nonetheless, it is not...

8 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: In the Bleak Midwinter... Midea heat pump performance, poor COP and windchill in action

@jamespa - a very interesting analysis. I think the key thing is the duration of the cold spell, if long enough (more than a day?), in effect the hous...

8 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: In the Bleak Midwinter... Midea heat pump performance, poor COP and windchill in action

@jamespa - I'll extract the November data, including the independent OAT sensor, probably later today, and send you a copy. November has been quite a ...

8 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: The good, the bad and the not that great – my heat pump installation

@burtis - we can see the flow rate stays much the same throughout, and the LWT/RWT rise (from 39/32 to 59/52, about what I would expect for a DHW rehe...

8 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: In the Bleak Midwinter... Midea heat pump performance, poor COP and windchill in action

No you're not confused! There are actually two problems visible here: (1) heat pump can't quite cope during periods of low OATs (IAT falls and stays...

8 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: In the Bleak Midwinter... Midea heat pump performance, poor COP and windchill in action

Yes, though it is very tedious and boring doing it. I have a python script that does it manually over modbus (by manually, I mean I have to set the ne...

8 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: In the Bleak Midwinter... Midea heat pump performance, poor COP and windchill in action

Another chart showing the Midea heat pump can't quite cope in cold weather. Blue upper chart is outside air temp (OAT), lower green chart is indoor ai...

8 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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