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Last seen: Jan 5, 2026
So went to bed last night, house at 22 as usual, however kept heating on. House still@22 now, usually following morning it would be 21. I used 9kwh ov...
@Jamespa I know it costs 30kwh per day as i monitored it over 3 days24/7 running. That was in colder weather. Its pretty uniform usage when temps simi...
For arguments sake i will extend running at 9pm tonight when its due to go off and see what it uses until 9pm tomorrow. I know in these conditions its...
@Derek-m [/quote] Your bills are lower, because the tariff may possibly be lower, but also because forum members helped your sort out all the issu...
@derek-m I simply have a kwh meter that just reports heat pump usage. I monitored for 24hour period running 24/7,approx 30kwh usage, most days im runn...
I doubt ye will ever be able to conclusively agree on the interpretation of the data. Could it be that yes fabric of house cools a bit but the real fe...
If desired room tmp is 20, i doubt 20degflow would achieve that, surley some losses on transfer and to get up through the slab.
Yep kinda relieved its not doing defrosts at mild temps, think every5-8hours it happens, lwt drops below rwt like a defrost, lasts maybe 1-2minutes, d...
@derek-m/p> Found this Derek, i don't really understand it. It seems to do this function, originally thought it was defrosting but OAT 10deg today a...
Its in the operation manual, the page where it tells you what the symbols mean. Also in running mode tab on my low temp split altherma2, it has defros...
hi toodles, seeing as you have daikin you might know, i was noticing frost symbol at 8deg OAT, but since i have discovered oil return function has sam...
Yes that's exactly it, even when cold though after maybe 8hours, the heat pump modulated down to 11.4l/min,approx 1/3 of capacity so energy usage drop...
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