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RE: ÀSHP heat loss - how close to perfect can we get?

@jamespa - your heat pump selection logic makes sense, and I also get the importance of aesthetics. This thread now demonstrates a fossil fuel boiler ...

10 months ago
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RE: ÀSHP heat loss - how close to perfect can we get?

@jamespa - an interesting chart, it shows the method working for a large fossil fuel data set. I suspect if you cleaned up the data a bit, you might g...

11 months ago
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RE: ÀSHP heat loss - how close to perfect can we get?

Which is why I have tried plotting 24 hour periods rather hourly periods, and sure enough the correlation does appear to be very good, remarkably good...

11 months ago
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RE: ÀSHP heat loss - how close to perfect can we get?

@jamespa - you know I do! You can't have forgotten the many discussions we and others have had about it, some of which have got rather warm on occasio...

11 months ago
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RE: ÀSHP heat loss - how close to perfect can we get?

Energy input (used, consumed) you have, it's what your meter says it is, and you just total it for each day (or subtract previous reading from current...

11 months ago
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RE: ÀSHP heat loss - how close to perfect can we get?

Given this, and the fact you seem to have a fairly good consensus based assessment of your total heat loss, can you do what I did, that is find a peri...

11 months ago
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RE: ÀSHP heat loss - how close to perfect can we get?

My suggestion is the heating is always on (on the timer) during any heat loss assessment exercise, set to a constant IAT, the only on/off activity wil...

11 months ago
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RE: ÀSHP heat loss - how close to perfect can we get?

@majordennisbloodnok - interesting questions that I don't know the answer to, but the thinking behind them is the same line of thinking I had when I w...

11 months ago
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RE: ÀSHP heat loss - how close to perfect can we get?

Interesting (and a splodge is another example of what I recently called monkey plots). I wonder if the hourly plots fail because your system is very v...

11 months ago
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RE: ÀSHP heat loss - how close to perfect can we get?

It means what it says, but if you want a rewording it might be 'not for the first time the data is messy (incomplete, haywire values at extreme ends o...

11 months ago
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RE: ÀSHP heat loss - how close to perfect can we get?

Here we go again, messy data making monkey plots! What I have, and can and can't do: (1) minute by minute recorded data for all variables of interes...

11 months ago
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