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RE: Do setbacks save energy without compromising comfort?

Thanks for the kind thoughts. At least it is sunny as well as less humid, and the cold won't last forever.

2 years ago
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RE: Do setbacks save energy without compromising comfort?

The dates and times were in the post with the charts. The 1.18 factor was a guaverage, a portmanteau word. As I have pointed out before, I have lim...

2 years ago
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RE: Do setbacks save energy without compromising comfort?

Agreed, I went through the Midea manuals and could not find anything. But I am not sure it matters that much. We have the compressor kWh in which you ...

2 years ago
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RE: Do setbacks save energy without compromising comfort?

@derek-m - you have made three requests for data all within three hours, one at 8 pm, another just one hour later at 9:01 pm and then this rather petu...

2 years ago
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RE: Do setbacks save energy without compromising comfort?

Yes, to keep you on your toes 😉 Seriously, though, usually there is a reason, this time it is because the daily meter readings were taken at 0700.

2 years ago
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RE: Do setbacks save energy without compromising comfort?

I've had another look at the data and found the only series where I read the external meter of a daily basis. It is a short run, for the period 0700 o...

2 years ago
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RE: Defrost Cycles - How Common Are They?

@toodles - interestingly, that plot looks like a plotly/python plot, which is what I use. I don't normally include the top right icons, but I do inclu...

2 years ago
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RE: Do setbacks save energy without compromising comfort?

Method note (only of interest if you are interested in the code): I have sorted out the split regression line in the polynomial plot, using sort (sic)...

2 years ago
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RE: Do setbacks save energy without compromising comfort?

I absolutely agree - that is why the opening remarks in my very first original post in this thread, answering the question in the thread title, were ...

2 years ago
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RE: Do setbacks save energy without compromising comfort?

I think that if you look closely at the data you will find that that is the case. Defrosts indicated by the LWT dropping below the RWT:

2 years ago
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RE: Do setbacks save energy without compromising comfort?

I think the higher variation is probably due to the defrost cycles, the heat pump is literally blowing hot and cold, and the local OAT varies as a res...

2 years ago
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