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RE: The Mystery of the Weather Compensation Curve

To be clear, I didn't say that Nest is a good control, nor do I think that.

2 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: The Mystery of the Weather Compensation Curve

I think it's simply because the outdoor unit already has a thermometer on it, whereas they can charge you extra for an indoor "smart thermostat" that'...

2 years ago
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RE: Heat Pump Truth or Myth#1 - Keeping it running 24/7 uses less energy

Isn't the important variable here is the average temperature of the house over the 24 hour period? If you turn it off for 3 hours, and the temp drops ...

3 years ago
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RE: Accessing and analysing data from your heat pump

Are you using pymelcloud to set the flow temperatures? I didn't realise it could do that! Or did you make your own code for that? I, too, have tried...

3 years ago
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RE: Tepeo ZEB

Probably their target market is flats. My old flat was all electric and storage heaters, which were frankly useless and wasteful, and barely lasted a ...

3 years ago
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RE: Oil vs Gas vs ASHP costs.

Yeah I've worked out the same for me - producing the same amount of heat that our ASHP is producing using our 20-year old gas boiler would be 40-50% m...

3 years ago
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RE: What's your current daily damage?

46kWh yesterday reported by the heat pump / MELcloud. That would have cost me approx £13.70. Using the reported consumption figures since it was ins...

3 years ago
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RE: Measuring your COP

I think there are some things that consumers/home owners need to educate themselves on, and some things that consumers can't/shouldn't be expected to ...

3 years ago
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RE: Measuring your COP

I've been thinking about this, because it was a really interesting point - what are my objectives and what things should I care about? Where I've land...

3 years ago
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RE: Measuring your COP

@editor We have two pumps that use ~35w each. The idle power consumption of the unit is also substantial I think. However, the "energy consumed" figur...

3 years ago
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RE: Does your heat pump calculate and provide you with a COP figure?

@oswiu Thanks Oswiu, I use the Home Assistant integration and have looked at pymelcloud as well (the HA integration uses pymelcloud iirc). Unfortunate...

3 years ago
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RE: Does your heat pump calculate and provide you with a COP figure?

Like you, I don't have MMSP and I don't have a "CoP" line on my MELcloud. However, if you use the developer tools on your browser to see the raw JSON ...

3 years ago
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