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@adamk Please feel free to post any proposals for comment. I'm sure you will get some useful feedback. If it helps, and I hope it does, my Vailla...
To the best of my knowledge demand < minimum output is the only reason for cycling other than defrost, unless of course there is something else (eg...
which (a) is, I suspect, the outcome he wants (because he doesn't want to bother training up) and (b) may well be at least in part true because of...
After I wrote my initial comment I guessed that might be the case! Turning down the flow might reduce the peak power output but I cant see how it...
... which presumably will reduce the cycling frequency but not materially change the on/off ratio (which is determined by the ratio of demand to minim...
Sorry I cant help further. Knowing when the various components (compressor, fan, EEV, water pump) change state might illuminate the matter, but other...
Cycling will occur if the heat demand (measured in kW) from the house is less than the minimum output of the heat pump (also measured in kW), which is...
I cant immediately see you are misreading - although I cant be sure, I can only try to deduce, which lines correspond to which scales. Im presuming y...
All good IMHO. Others may have a different view of course.
You are right to be cautious about the AI analysis, definitely contains some BS. Once you have a preliminary decision feel free to post it and the ra...
Weird. This implies that the switch from heating mode to cooling mode is after this 5 minute period, in which case whats the 3 minute previous previo...
Where does the heat during the 5 min period go, to the evaporator to de-ice or to the heating system (which makes no sense). Is the water pump runnin...
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