I’m happy to announce a new feature on HeatpumpMonitor.org, the heat pump database!
This database enables:
- Stats on a heat pump make & model basis
- Option to submit and view monitoring based max output test data (with the intention of expanding on Max output testing under defrost conditions — OpenEnergyMonitor 0.0.1 documentation)
- Adds “auto-complete” of heat pump model entry when adding new systems (helps with standardisation)
Future plans include:
- Summaries of key technical properties such as min & max flow rates, compressor amperage, data sheet based capacity information (that can then be cross checked with the monitoring based test results).
Clicking on a particular make & model of heat pumps shows the information page for that heat pump. Here’s the page for the Vaillant Arotherm+ R290 7 kW with the max output tests copied over from the spreadsheet.
https://heatpumpmonitor.org/heatpump/view?id=3
If you are logged in, the page shows an entry box to submit a URL for a max output test, entering the test and clicking ‘load and save’ automatically fetches the key metrics for the test period from the dashboard based on the URL.
@glyn.hudson and I will do a separate post and possibly a video on how to perform these max output tests alongside careful selection of the test period. This is just a quick post for now to give a quite overview of what we are building in preparation for next winter (during a heat wave in the middle of summer 
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Any feedback is welcome!
