Forums

Forums
Members
cathodeRay
Activity
 
Notifications
Clear all
cathodeRay
cathodeRay
@cathoderay
Moderator
Famed Member
Joined: Feb 28, 2022
Last seen: Aug 15, 2025
Profile Activity
Topics: 17 / Replies: 2075
AllTopicsReplies
Reply
RE: Grant Aerona Setback

@derek-m I didn't quote you (no quotation marks, and my wording is 'appear to be firmly of the opinion', not X said Y), I paraphrased you, or you mi...

2 years ago
Forum
Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
Reply
RE: Grant Aerona Setback

Just to add an observation on this: I did in fact manage to do this, in the cold snap last December, by using the room stat: normal target IAT is 19 d...

2 years ago
Forum
Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
Reply
RE: Heat pumps and on/off working - starting to quantify it

That sounds very plausible, except for the fact the LWT rise appears to start just before the RWT rise, see at around 0703h. The four phase pattern is...

2 years ago
Forum
Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
Reply
RE: Heat pumps and on/off working - starting to quantify it

Here are the minute by minute energy values alongside the minute by minute temp values I posted earlier. Note they are Wh, not kWh, and, as a sanity c...

2 years ago
Forum
Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
Reply
RE: Heat pumps and on/off working - starting to quantify it

@rod - I do have a separate third party kWh meter that supplies only the heat pump but maddeningly it is not modbus enabled, meaning I can only get re...

2 years ago
Forum
Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
Reply
RE: Heat pumps and on/off working - starting to quantify it

Anatomy of a cycle: here is a single cycle from my heat pump, from around 0640 to 0720 this morning. This has been the pattern for the last few days, ...

2 years ago
Forum
Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
Reply
RE: Heat pumps and on/off working - starting to quantify it

I think you may well have a good point here, particularly when the OAT gets into the defrost range. I will be doing some experiments once we have cold...

2 years ago
Forum
Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
Reply
RE: Heat pumps and on/off working - starting to quantify it

Pretty much so, I think the core question is: do the savings made during a setback amount to more or less than the extra costs incurred (because of lo...

2 years ago
Forum
Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
Reply
RE: Heat pumps are more than twice as efficient as fossil fuel heating systems in cold temperatures - Research

And the authors are hardly without an agenda. From their front page: "The Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP)® is an independent, non-partisan, non-go...

2 years ago
Forum
Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
Reply
RE: Heat pumps are more than twice as efficient as fossil fuel heating systems in cold temperatures - Research

From near the top of the actual 'research' paper (BTB called 'Coming in from the Cold' - note quite the academic tone. Will the research group's next ...

2 years ago
Forum
Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
Reply
RE: Heat pumps and on/off working - starting to quantify it

This is exactly what I get when I click on the link, and it (it is everything on the screen) still has all the problems I mentioned: No labels...

2 years ago
Forum
Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
Reply
RE: Real world connection to a heat pump over modbus

@mikefl - I'm sure that's right, and useful to know, thanks for the contribution, but I think a lot of people (including me) are just not ready to tak...

2 years ago
Forum
Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
Page 94 / 175
Share:

Join Us!

Podcast Picks

Latest Posts

Click to access the login or register cheese
x Powerful Protection for WordPress, from Shield Security
This Site Is Protected By
ShieldPRO →