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RE: ASHP and how it should run and potential kw consumption?

I think that conditions over the last couple of days are about the worst possible - cold but very wet = lots of defrost. I too am interested in what ...

2 years ago
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RE: Analysing MELcloud heat pump graphs

I'm not an ecodan expert but this looks like defrost to me. The give away is that FT goes below RT.. Conditions for defrost are about as bad as they...

2 years ago
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RE: Is My Midea Heat Pump Inherently Defective?

I think you are very likely right unfortunately. This is a somewhat surprising conclusion given that the system was presumably designed by Freedom an...

2 years ago
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RE: Is My Midea Heat Pump Inherently Defective?

I confess Im a bit mystified. How was the WC curve determined. If it was determined experimentally, then cycling and losses in PHE etc would be, at ...

2 years ago
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RE: Is My Midea Heat Pump Inherently Defective?

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! ...

2 years ago
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RE: Is My Midea Heat Pump Inherently Defective?

One might expect (hope) that the heat pump takes this into account in the control circuit, by accumulating differences and overshooting to compensate....

2 years ago
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RE: Is My Midea Heat Pump Inherently Defective?

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...

2 years ago
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RE: Is My Midea Heat Pump Inherently Defective?

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...

2 years ago
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RE: Is My Midea Heat Pump Inherently Defective?

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...

2 years ago
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RE: Is My Midea Heat Pump Inherently Defective?

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...

2 years ago
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RE: Double heat pump for DHW?

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...

2 years ago
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