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@heatgeek @jamespa I hope this may help with the modulation discussion. Comparing the Hitachi 2.5 HP to the Mitsubishi R290 6kW (just one compresso...
@skyecraig I've had our FTC7 wireless thermostat lose connection to the controller a few times, does yours display 3 in the top right where the temp...
@trebor12345 I'm pretty sure Viessmann use an energy integral algorithm like Vaillant, so what we are seeing is that at a near constant outside temp...
@heatgeak It's good to talk about mild temperatures and heat pumps, they don't get discussed very often. It's a 8kW unit. It does prove that ...
As both Vaillants do DHW but the Samsung doesn't, you'd expect the daily mean COP of the Vaillants to be less. Also the first Vaillant does a defrost ...
@gary We've got the FTC7, maybe older controllers didn't have that setting? It's under Operational Settings on the FTC7.
See my post- it's called summer mode and is in the service menu.
Mitsubishi has a separate setting, like Samsung, to turn the heat pump off above an outside temperature. And turn the heat pump on below an outside te...
It's from:/p> Suggest you use the menu (top right) and download the PDF - it's a big document as it has all of Mitsubishi's air to water heat pumps....
A few comments that might be helpful. As James mentioned, usually the biggest source of over estimating heat loss is the ventilation rate (air chan...
Unfortunately for your argument the best performing Daikin on heatpumpmonitor is the one owned by matt-drummer and from how he explained his control s...
There have been several people on the OpenEnergyMonitor forums who have persuaded Octopus to replace their 9kW or 11kW Daikin with a smaller 6kW or 8k...
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