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JamesPa
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RE: Do setbacks save energy without compromising comfort?

As I'm sure you know the mean of a sample (which is what we are looking at) of a normally distributed population may differ from the population mean. ...

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

@cathoderay Prima facie this looks very interesting and a good fit once changes in the system are excluded, as you have done. Can you tell us what t...

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

Thinking more about the above, its all a matter of degree. You choose to compensate for OAT by using a model, but you choose not to compensate for IA...

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

@derek-m @cathoderay until we get to the bottom of this and either explain it or conclude that i have goofed in my analysis I really don't think its w...

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

@derek-m @cathoderay until we get to the bottom of this and either explain it or conclude that i have goofed in my analysis I really don't think its w...

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

I quite often get database errors recently and have taken to copying text to the clipboard before pressing 'add reply' to ensure I dont have to retype...

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

Thanks for the responses. I don't think it has a fatal flaw in principle, although omitting to take into account IAT means that you will need...

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

@cathoderay From your Obs vs Exp worksheet here is a pivot of actual and expected for the whole of the heating season (I omitted the days when the hea...

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

Thanks I agree that the less processing the better. I used noon to noon data only because that's what you had previously quoted in your posts. Its...

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

The technique is certainly valid and should give a very similar answer to the technique of comparing the two distributions, provided the necessary cor...

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

That's most helpful thanks, and as you say we don't really need to know exactly the energy consumption of the pump if its already included.

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

We can look at the specifications of typical circulating pumps. Here is a common one, 60W = 1.4kWh/day assuming its operating at max (which most circ...

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