No, the nav didn’t disappear.
Clicking the house turns its circle a sort of blue???
Thanks, sounds like the JavaScript is not working correctly for you. What browser are you using?
Privacy browser. Yes, JavaScript permission denied to untrusted websites for security, privacy, battery and accessability. Shouldn’t it at least display cleanly without it? I only want to read it, not interact. Show/hide menus only need CSS anyway.
Tryson, thanks for posting such a detailed study
I’m considering a heat pump for my newbuild
One concern I have is the slow ramp up because of the low temperature output, so the HP has to be operating for longer, leading to greater losses through the insulation
I note you compared the cost of delivered heat to the house from the HP v cost of doing the same with gas (let’s assume “normal” prices, the market is nuts at the mo)
However with the slow ramp up, more heat would have to be delivered to the house, as the duration is longer.
How many kWh of gas per year were used in the years before fitting the HP? To compare with how many kWh post HP fitting. That would give a closer to realworld COP
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Trystan’s house did not use gas - the central heating system was fed by a solid fuel stove with a back-boiler. He only lived in it for a few months, perhaps a year, before he fitted the heat-pump.
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Pity., but thanks for letting me know.
Posed a similar question on this thread:
Yes a valid question and unfortunately I don’t have that before and after data to be able to say. I’d probably need a good number of years of data as well as my annual consumption with the heat pump has changed significantly year after year, partly increasing comfort, partly mild winters.
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@TrystanLea Firstly, thank you. This is a treasure trove of information. We’re in our first year with our Ecodan and I’m planning to add monitoring when the TXv4s are available.
Do you happen to have a summary of your current settings for the Ecodan? I’m confident that we need to tweak some things but couldn’t find this on the site. I see snippets of information but if you happen to have anything consolidated, that works be fantastic.
Hello @abbbbbottttt I have a FTC2b controller which is designed for integration with building management systems. I control that with an raspberryPi, which sets the water flow temperature desired. I control heat pump start, stop and diverter valve position (space heating/DHW) from the pi. This does make my setup a little difficult to transfer directly to standard Ecodan settings.
Does your Ecodan measure energy consumed and produced? do you have an insight into it’s performance so far? What kind of heat emitters do you have? zones? low loss header? Hot water settings? Are you using weather comp with 3rd party thermostats or the main controller as your central thermostat allowing the use of auto adapt?
@TrystanLea - Thanks for your reply. Understood on your setup and we’re on the FTC6 and we have limited information currently through MEL Cloud. My plan is to take that information and combine it with TX info in Emoncms.
I can’t easily get at the figures to calculate COP at the moment but I am still digging on what I is possible. We’ve had new K2 radiators installed throughout but a single zone. We’ve currently got two standalone thermostats and I switch from downstairs to upstairs later in the day.
I don’t think the unit was particularly well configured when installed and was set on Flow. As I say, I’ve changed to Room but everything I read suggests Curve is the most optimal. We’re hardly using it with the current weather so gearing myself up for winter and the next lot of energy price rises.
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Hi @TrystanLea. I’m looking for a professional to carry out my heat loss calculations for an ASHP and would like to have a monitoring system. Is this something that you could do or recommend some one who could carry this out. I’m based near Llangollen
Ryan
Anyone close to you on the Heat Geek map?
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I’ve tried them last week and actually had an email back today. 
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@TrystanLea Whilst I await the new TX, I see on another thread that you had data being pulled from MEL Cloud. I’ve got data but am struggling with the units for energy monitoring. Do you have any idea what units and what you did to get it in shape?
The data in MELCloud is useful, but it’s not perfect. Fields in the User/ListDevices JSON such as HeatingEnergyConsumedRate1 used to give you the Wh in the last minute. Unfortunately that stopped working last November. As it happens I’m trying to find my way inside Mitsubishi to see if we can get this repaired, but don’t hang around waiting for that to bear fruit.
These days I’m looking at the "EnergyCost/Report" JSON and doing a diff between the latest figure and the previous one. For example the code looks at:
directions = ["Consumed", "Produced"]
operations = ["Heating", "HotWater"]
for direction in directions:
for operation in operations:
combined = operation + direction
total = "Total" + combined
So that combinations gives me four different energy stats.
I think some people use pymelcloud, or you could try just hitting the HTTP endpoints directly. All will become clear if you watch the MELCloud website interaction with the server using your browser’s developer tools.
Hope that helps.
MyForest
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@MyForest - What dates are you using with /EnergyCost/Report? And does this give you today’s values?
You can tell I was really happy with this code @abbbbbottttt:
def getEnergy(self):
# TODO: Misses the last hour because of BST
for i in [-2, -1, 0]:
fromDay = datetime.date.today() + datetime.timedelta(days=i)
fromDate = "{:%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S}".format(fromDay)
argh = {
"DeviceId": 191113,
"FromDate": fromDate,
"ToDate": fromDate,
} # "UseCurrency":False
energyJSON = self.getContent("EnergyCost/Report", argh)
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@MyForest Thank you. Out of interest, how come the readings, if you’re just comparing current to previous?
Hey @abbbbbottttt
I was actually capturing these readings for some other purpose. It was only when the other ones vanished that I started using this one for working out the energy delta.