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Last seen: Aug 19, 2026
It claims to use the energy integral as part of the cycling control loop, but is silent about how the defrost control loop works, so I dont know! ...
One might expect (hope) that the heat pump takes this into account in the control circuit, by accumulating differences and overshooting to compensate....
OK, so (assuming Freedom are correct) you actually have two problems. The principal one is that the max pump rate is insufficient, leading to your ou...
All agreed In detail that is true. However its a dead cert that its primary control loop adjusts the compressor frequency and fan speed to a...
I should add to the above one other thing. It is just possible that the Midea is designed for a deltaT higher than 5C at max output, high enough th...
OK wrong wording on my part. Please read 'infer' instead of 'say'. Regarding the rest of this quote please read again this comment As I ob...
Fair enough. Perhaps your daughter could be asked to contribute to the cost or reminded that she will (likely) outlive you and will thus suffer the e...
I don't think you can say 'This is not how a heat pump is supposed to run'. SOFAIK there is nothing wrong with operating a fixed flow rate (and thus ...
abut 1.5 bar, but I dont think it matters much unless you have a very tall house (it merely needs to be sufficient to ensure that negative pressure do...
Those cops sounds pretty close to what I see (7kW house, 7kW Arotherm). My energy delivered is currently tracking fairly close to what my measured ga...
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