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RE: Setback savings - fact or fiction?

I posted an image from the FTC6 installer manual that clearly shows per pump power settings (like our FTC7) and a perfectly reasonable assumption of "...

7 months ago
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RE: Advice needed after a successful "leftfield" experiment.....

@pauli For the conventional approach, have you considered the 4kW Grant R290 heat pump? The specs say that it can modulate down to 1.25kW output (s...

7 months ago
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RE: Setback savings - fact or fiction?

The answer was in two parts in my reply, the second part that also answered some of your other points was: "If you effectively eliminate the over re...

7 months ago
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RE: Setback savings - fact or fiction?

Can I ask where the 2.8kWh figure comes from? I checked the FTC6 manual and it has the same settings for pump power as the FTC7 (see below from the FT...

7 months ago
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RE: Setback savings - fact or fiction?

To quote myself from a pervious post: "it's temperature sensors are thermistors with +/- 0.5C accuracy so at a dT of 5C can introduce a +/- 20% inac...

7 months ago
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RE: Setback savings - fact or fiction?

The FTC7 controller we have has configuration settings for pump power consumption values: Our settings have 39W for pump 1, as that's the power co...

7 months ago
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RE: Setback savings - fact or fiction?

Here's a couple of examples:     10.7 kWh estimated vs 7.3 kWh actual => 46.6%   12.1 kWh estimated vs 7.6 kWh ac...

7 months ago
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RE: Setback savings - fact or fiction?

Hi @majordennisbloodnok As per your second post, yes I'm referring to Open Energy Monitor and not Original Equipment Manufacturer. I also have Phil...

7 months ago
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RE: Setback savings - fact or fiction?

Some of the moderators of this forum post data from OEM, so I'm not the only one doing that. Other forum contributors have also stated that they own O...

7 months ago
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RE: Setback savings - fact or fiction?

So if "the compressor is already working at a high enough compression" then there is no additional electrical energy required to perform the defrost. ...

7 months ago
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RE: Setback savings - fact or fiction?

You said "this chart says I missed 7 defrosts during my setback saving oodles of cash compared to operating it 24/7." clearly implying that missing 7 ...

7 months ago
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RE: Setback savings - fact or fiction?

Except there's little evidence that defrosts use a significant amount of extra electricity.  

7 months ago
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