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RE: Defrost Cycles - How Common Are They?

@ghayne Thank you ghayne, i think I’ll ‘make do’ with an approximation as provided by the Govee units, the indoor humidity levels obviously do matter ...

1 year ago
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RE: Some big changes are coming to heat pump installation training

@sentinam I don’t need to write much here as I agree with all the above from Sentinam; it is a matter of education and offering the user the choice (o...

1 year ago
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RE: Defrost Cycles - How Common Are They?

@mikefl I think I’m getting the hang of interpreting the graphs now and it seems that the pump has gone through 6 defrost cycles so far today (just un...

1 year ago
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RE: Daikin problem

@cathoderay I have a Daikin EDLA08 monobloc and the number on yours suggests that it is indeed an 11 kW model. As CatodeRay mentioned; more informatio...

1 year ago
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RE: Defrost Cycles - How Common Are They?

@derek-m During the first 14 hours of today, (Tuesday 16th. Jan.) we have kept pretty well to target temperature of 22.5 C. throughout the 4 bedroomed...

1 year ago
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RE: Defrost Cycles - How Common Are They?

@iancalderbank The Short Term Coefficient of Performance (A new term! Shall we call it a STCOP?!) over the last two days it is 2.66 and just this day ...

1 year ago
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RE: Defrost Cycles - How Common Are They?

@allyfish A new plot of this morning’s pump performance along with the Onecta app report of temp. And humidity. If this still isn’t uncluttered suffic...

1 year ago
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RE: Defrost Cycles - How Common Are They?

@cathoderay Here are the two flow temps plus the defrost markers - hope this makes things a little clearer. Regards, Toodles.

1 year ago
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RE: Defrost Cycles - How Common Are They?

@iancalderbank Thereby hangs another curlywurly furry tail I feel; I have Govee thermometers in each room and although I would expect the bathroom...

1 year ago
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RE: Heat pump size advice – is 16kW overkill for this property?

@editor Sometimes, things can be even better; Octopus Energy’s Plumber and their Electrician spent three hours each assessing our property for a heat ...

1 year ago
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RE: Defrost Cycles - How Common Are They?

@iancalderbank Hello Ian, here is the graph with those three parameters only displayed. As you say, the heat pump power output does go down to -5 at s...

1 year ago
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RE: Defrost Cycles - How Common Are They?

Thank you MikeF1, I have taken new readings this morning that cover the last two days. I’m attaching two graphs showing fewer parameters for clarity. ...

1 year ago
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