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I'm also inclined to look into how a defrost is actually done. How much is just passive transfer of heat/energy (the coil simply becomes a radiator, a...
I've now calculated the minute by minute energy flows during the first hour in my previous chart, which had a defrost right at the start of the hour. ...
Yes, by calculating it manually from the minute data, which doesn't happen automatically as it does for hourly data. It's in the manually calculated m...
As far as I am aware, the majority, if not all, of the energy used in a defrost comes from the hot water in the radiator circuit. When I look at my mi...
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