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RE: Do setbacks save energy without compromising comfort?

I have no idea how to account for this other than the obvious observation that it is likely to compromise hp performance. I'm not sure I'd describe...

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

I have no idea how to account for this other than the obvious observation that it is likely to compromise hp performance. I'm not sure I'd describe...

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

I think you missed the point. While the control period covers almost all the setback range of OAT, it a) has very few data points in much of that ra...

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

Interesting. It could be standing load or minimum possible output even with cycling (because it probably turns on every so often just to get a sense ...

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

Not really. The fact that the equation of best fit has a constant in it a fact, and without extrapolation it still means that the data points we actu...

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

I would have reached the same conclusion except that the scattergram of corrected IAT-OAT vs energy out (corrected for the thermal mass of the fabric)...

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

We are all doing this part time! Scatter plots of IAT vs heating energy out and IAT - OAT vs heating energy out suggest 8.5kW at -2/20 and with a va...

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

@derek-m @cathoderay OK, I think I may be getting some ideas, its by no means fully there but its going in the right direction, I think. I think...

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

@cathoderay @derek-m Health warning: This post doesn't contain any conclusions, just some more observations to trigger thought, pursuant to the overri...

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

I don't know is the simple answer. In my own mind I was thinking of two (practical) regimes, a 24 hour cycle and a 2 week holiday. But of course peo...

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

OK so here are some observations to ponder, in no particular order, and with no particular agenda (other than to try to explain the observations) ...

3 years ago
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