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@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...
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...
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...
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...
@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...
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...
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...
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...
@jamespa - thanks. I was reading something on that website as you posted on how degree days are calculated. It seems the preferred method integrates t...
@jamespa - we cross posted. I think there is a fundamental flaw in my suggested approach as described above, most people don't have access to the data...
And of course I can do this, measure energy out, but only because I have the data I do. Since most people don't have access to this data for their hea...
That is exactly what I have been doing, since early last year (late March)! On my standard chart, which is based on minute by minute data, you can see...
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