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RE: Do setbacks save energy without compromising comfort?

@scrchngwsl - very interesting, and very useful, to have an analysis done using a different approach that still nonetheless starts with the observed d...

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

Covered in my recent post (I'm not sure, don't have enough detailed data, but on balance, it looks random, but I don't know for certain). If/when I ha...

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

Will you please stop making insinuations that have no basis in fact. I have released all the all the raw/actual data for December in the zip file I po...

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

@derek-m - broadly, I think you have got it, apart from this paragraph: I am not sure where that comes from or what it does. Boiled down to its...

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

@iancalderbank - thanks - looking at the chart for days with minimal hot water use, it is almost always 10 degree drop per 24 hours, so I suppose with...

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

I agree, it does seem high, and I get reminded every time I see the DHW tank temp chart. It's the fairly common I think Telford Tempest Heat Pump mode...

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

Me too, but I fear it is a fact of life that modern DHW tanks aren't in fact that well insulated. Mine drops most days by about ten degrees, from 50 d...

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

On a positive note, something of a breakthrough on the energy in calculations, and the need for a 1.18 correction factor. Against expectations based o...

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

I do understand, and your thoughts are also very much in my mind. I have tried to operate restraint, but in my defence, I do have to say that within...

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

Well, that's all good then, it means you understand the effect you have on people. But I still don't understand why you don't want to verify (or oth...

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

Given your low confidence in and derision for my data, my calculations, my charting and my interpretations, I think it is best if I give you the raw d...

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

This is an extremely interesting idea, and the fitting of computer fans is well within my DIY capabilities. Being low voltage, they would be easy to s...

2 years ago
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