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RE: Do setbacks save energy without compromising comfort?

If you work out the 24 hour average IAT and do the simple math correctly you will indeed get a very crude estimate, one which is perhaps good enough f...

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

It looks like this forum has been the victim of dumbing down, a little way upthread you were prepared to accept an answer based on A level maths, now ...

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

My plot of IAT-OAT vs energy supplied to the emitters, the latter corrected for changes in energy stored in the fabric (ie thermal mass), would seem t...

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

My reading is this (others may disagree) There are currently no experimental results from which we can deduce any conclusions applicable generally, ...

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

@cathoderay Well they are interesting! The third period, when the heat pump was actually running, appears to show relatively little temperature ...

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

Thanks. So to check my understanding (please confirm if I have got it correct!): the modelled LWT is adjusted from its default value (set by an assum...

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

Sorry but you aren't looking at the data correctly, you need to multiply temp by time. To achieve the claimed 20% saving overall (and using the 10% ...

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

Its not the methodology, its the observations. There is as yet no explanation of how, during setback, you can (apparently) put ~20% less energy into ...

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

Can you elaborate on the second of these, Im not sure what the 'offset' is and where it is applied and what you define as 'correct'? Also what d...

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

I never said it did or that you did. All I did was comment on the utility of the data in relation to the question in the prevailing circumstance, nam...

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

I did indeed, and its still my view, but I had in mind a reasonably well adjusted system. In retrospect my thinking was a little muddled (perhaps I w...

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

Thanks, I will take some time to study them.

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