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RE: Midea ASHP – how to set weather compensation

Which part of the sentence do you consider complete nonsense: "complicated" or "ineffective" ?

1 week ago
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RE: Midea ASHP – how to set weather compensation

Weather compensation is a complicated and ineffective way to control heat pumps. Your house was OK when you were on oil, because oil heater control de...

1 week ago
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RE: Midea ASHP – how to set weather compensation

But this is the whole point of our lengthy and interesting conversation. At this point, I owe to apologize if my English sounded a bit hostile, this w...

10 months ago
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RE: Midea ASHP – how to set weather compensation

@jamespa There are numerous, very detailed, simulators that show the capabilities and benefits of each approach. Further, the delay you mention, is ac...

10 months ago
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RE: Midea ASHP – how to set weather compensation

@jamespa Classical PI controllers need tuning i.e. commissioning. This is difficult to achieve, unless well-trained. This is why weather curves were e...

10 months ago
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RE: Midea ASHP – how to set weather compensation

@jamespa OK. Let me repeat that I started this post because I think the "weather curve" method is odd, outdated and wrong. Here is my reasoning: 1. ...

10 months ago
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RE: Midea ASHP – how to set weather compensation

@cathoderay I don't think (b) is fixed flow temp. Where did you see this ? If this is the case, it destroys all the benefits of an inverter driven pum...

10 months ago
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RE: Midea ASHP – how to set weather compensation

@jamespa You don't need to predict anything. A PI controller effectively does all these.

10 months ago
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RE: Midea ASHP – how to set weather compensation

@jamespa Every house needs a specific heat power to bring it to a set temperature. This means a specific water temperature. If you lower this temperat...

10 months ago
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RE: Midea ASHP – how to set weather compensation

@cathoderay OK. It is difficult to argue through messaging. I ask you to bear with me. There are 3 ways to control a Midea heat pump, but in the 3rd m...

10 months ago
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RE: Midea ASHP – how to set weather compensation

@jamespa I refer to the Midea controller thermostat, not an external one. This said, I do not pretend to know what heat pump designers design, but the...

10 months ago
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RE: Midea ASHP – how to set weather compensation

@jamespa Modern heat pumps are inverter driven. A room thermostat will not turn the pump on and off, but regulates it evenly around the set point. Thi...

10 months ago
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