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@technogeekk there are other strategies for saving money open to your kind of setup based on the kit and property you have listed. And I’m guessing yo...
So, as James suggests in a thread above. You can’t make a universal statement about a heat pump performance if it only applies to a specific system. T...
Are you sure About that, @robs because that’s what I was saying earlier. Here is a post I made
Hi @robs. Your summary of defrost is missing and/or misplacing the full defrost ELECTRICAL energy, mainly because the real defrost period is ...
I will reply to your other comments later but just to answer your first point….In your summary did you not say: “But the system...
Rob I posted this question in full knowledge of your energy flows summary with 11 minute data charts. I was asking for more information. The problem I...
Hi I’ve reposted the two contrasting defrosts from the above post and re labelled them so the contrasting defrost periods can be compared. They are de...
Hi @robs Can I ask you to explain what you see as the energy attributable to the defrost and defrost Recovery. To my mind there are some energy act...
@jamespa yes I see what you mean. I think what was on my mind is how to read the impact of the eventual drop in return temperature water. What I’ve n...
I see things have moved on, all of a sudden and Rob has introduced interesting variants of defrosts across various brands. im glad the topic of lag ...
Interesting, I have highlighted the possibility of hidden energy that may not be accounted for during recovery, as listed, including contained in th...
@cathoderay I kind of guessed you might come back with the data validation route. The problem with that route is that it is only as good as the under...
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