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Not great. Average run time < 1 hour. Suggests cycling on thermostat or due to oversize. However not that many hours either, when was it fitted? ...
I would leave for now, make only one change at a time! NR mode will likely improve efficiency but no idea if it's significantly. Of course it also c...
I'm guessing the sharp dips in FT are defrost cycles. Recovery is slow and I cant see the expected spike immediately after defrost. Have you got 'qu...
Save yourself some angst. Until the flow rate is fixed there is nothing worth speculating about. Once its fixed then measure the temp drop across ...
Mine is running on a 3B, albeit one with the official power supply. The power info is currently flaky (known issue with the integration) but you can...
Are you able to post any graphs? Unless its cycling or defrosting it should be achieving (at the heat pump) a COP close to spec. Defrost can cripp...
So at DT 5 (the normal design DT for heat pumps) that will transport 4.2kW (assuming water, about 10% less if its glycol). Is that sufficient, if no...
Hi, and welcome to the forum. I cant quite understand whats going on in the charts because the labels arent obvious. Cn you clarify whic...
Really good episode thanks for that. Uplifting as well as informative and, dare I say, it giving real hope. The guy from heat geek (James?...
Very sound reasons imho. My current feel, albeit based almost entirely on hearsay and what they say, is that they have a good mass market offering. ...
That's interesting. We don't know what design trade offs octopus, or for that matter any other heat pump manufacturer, have made. Octopus however ...
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