Last seen: Sep 19, 2024
From the tests and observations I have performed, much depends on the climatic conditions, the thermal mass of your home, personal preferences along w...
@iantelescope How are you obtaining and recording the data for the graphs? On the Power kW graph, what is the scaling of the horizontal axis? Is t...
Take a hypothetical home, with a calculated heat loss of 12 kW at an outside temperature of -3C, when maintaining an indoor temperature of 21C. So f...
@mike-h I find a better analogy to represent a home, is a smaller vessel containing equidistant pins holes (heat loss) located inside a larger vesse...
@iantelescope Mounted in parallel with the PHE, the buffer tank is more like having a low value resistor in parallel with a higher value resistor (P...
@iantelescope It may be beneficial to understand why a heat pump may cycle, and then look at ways in which the cycling may be stopped or at least re...
If my memory serves me well, the Human Machine Interface (HMI) is often located on the main controller, which is usually placed in the airing cupboard...
Where is your FTC controller located?
@iantelescope I have worked with French engineers, I was not impressed.
@iantelescope I afraid that your analogy of a buffer tank being the same as a capacitor is flawed. For a buffer tank to be similar to a capacitor it...
In the Kendra example, note the position of the circulation pump, which is after the buffer tank, and I suspect would only work with any degree of eff...
Current Frequency could be in relation to the compressor speed, since it is controlled by a variable frequency drive. Evaporator Steps may relate to...
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