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Agree with just about everything you've written there, but I think you may be missing a point (although you may well have covered this elsewhere) abou...
Agreed - my analysis is over-simplistic so far - we should expect to reduce consumption purely because the average temperature differential to outside...
Although, roughly speaking, the overshoot hill (above the average line) fits the size of the of the preceding valley (exactly, in fact, over the cours...
Interesting to see your findings, @cathoderay. From what I can see in my own n=1 study (this house (which is large and fairly well insulated, but wit...
Thanks for the suggestions, both. @gary Yes, it behaves as you would expect for the 17°C setback - switches off for a couple of hours, then when it ...
A few more quick experiments last night/this morning: 1. Resetting the control unit yesterday evening had no discernable effect. Same setback to 17°...
Resetting the control unit made no difference at all. I can make immediate changes no problem, but they are overridden by the phantom schedule setting...
@derek-m Thanks. Will give that a go later. It seems like that shouldn't be necessary (as it would rather defeat the purpose of having a wall/app prog...
Update: Yesterday I deleted out all the time periods and set it to manual 20°C (again), and last night it resolutely drifted down to 17°C and this m...
Interesting to see, thanks. I had started running my own experiments (using the limited data from my HP's (unimpressive) app), but have discovered a w...
Thanks for the comments and explanations everyone. The observation about running hard to recover the lost energy fits with what I'm seeing (from basi...
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