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Very curious, this Rod Ive always understood from heat geek video that the poorest efficiency stage is at the beginning of a HP Operation cycle and ...
James, can you remind me what is your definition of setback, in terms of temperature? What are you defining as target daytime room temperature and wha...
a second look for derek
@cathoderay thanks for that update youre right imo, and that’s why I started with the extreme example ... 20% is significant although JPA might still ...
. @derek-m very funny realizing that’s you just being your humourous self I won’t bother reminding you and James that I did say it was an extreme e...
I think @jamespa quoted you are thinking there is only a 5% saving when operating a setback. This obviously seems a small saving for the effort of doi...
I’m a bit lost on this thread can someone enlighten me if the topic has changed? It was : “Do setbacks save energy without compromising comfort?” ...
Of course... I’m sure it will be enlightening.... btw ive attached the following hourly chart showing the modulated operation for 56 minutes (not 30...
@rod and Derek.... fascinating graph esp to see the kw used to restart heating after defrost. I can’t get that overlay on my graphs. However there i...
That’s ok… if you’re getting the room temperature you want at all outside temperatures then you may as you say, be lucky and have got the right WCcurv...
This is exactly the same issue we had with our installation a year ago. We had the missing energy data. We also had a 3rd party thermostat which meant...
30th November was a bit cold we operated a setback to 16C and still got a TOPUP in the middle of the night Room temp is black line. Green is Outsi...
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