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One of my [many] knowledge gaps. What is the right delta T? Should I vary this? If so, what are the parameters that should drive these changes? I ...
I found additional material for that journey here. "...Scroll compressors with continuous modulation can adjust from 10 to 100 percent capacity (or v...
@frappzy I can do the same on my. Mine is rated at 16kW. When I was "playing around/fine tuning" the flow temp and delta T I ended up with this [s...
I have been looking into this as well. I think this may have something to do with the capabilities of the inverter on the pump. From what I could fi...
@allyfish I have this quandry as well. Is the additional wear and tear on the heat pump more or less in $$ than the electricity cost on the cheap rat...
@rickk54 While I am new to heat pumps (just installed 16kW Samsung Gen6) - what I have learnt is that the carnot equation only has 2 parameters (Tem...
You should be able to video it frosted up. And if you monitor your flow temp, you should see a defrost cycle. My heat pump takes 3-4 mins to defrost....
@derek-m Exactly, I had this formula for UFH, though not sure it is correct but seems to give results in a reasonable ball park. In any case the resu...
@alistersmith I think it is important to get some basic monitoring in place [if you don't have it yet]. You don't need fancy stuff, but at least flow...
Of course, I should have been clear, I need to accurately know the dT with much more accurate sensors, but it was more to illustrate the point that mi...
@derek-m Yes, the flow rate "meter" in the pump is done via fancy calculations by the pump electronics. So probably some "fancy" filtering going on a...
For now off the controller UI, manually put it in a spreadsheet. I have installed the modbus adapter in the unit outside, just not had a chance to co...
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