Do any Samsung users/ experts have any insights for me on the subject of the Samsung gen 6 remote controller:
Is there any way to see how many stops/starts the compressor makes in an hour?
Does anyone know anything about how the energy consumption and generation stats are calculated? ie. Could there be other explanations for changes in values other than actual changes in energy usage eg. Changes in some other variables which the algorithm makes assumptions about?
Using the controller’s own internal stat to run the ASHP. Is this any more efficient than just running water law? It doesn’t seem to have any load compensation at the lower end of the temp range in any case and I think others have said it doesn’t at all. Is there a difference in the hysteresis it uses when using its own thermostat or is it just another on/off switch?
I feel like it ought to be most efficient to use the ASHP’s own controls but not sure if that’s the case!
Can’t answer the first 2 questions as I use the OEM heat pump monitor to get that information.
The thermostat isn’t an on/off switch. It’s a thermistor. It’s not either water law or thermostat. You can use water law in conjunction with the the thermostat. That’s what I do, although it;s the remote thermistor rather than the one built into the remote controller.
The combination works very well in my system. It starts the heat pump when the room temp drops 0.1C below the set temperature and stops when the temperature is 0.6 -1C above the set temperature. The efficiency is good.
However, I suspect that how effective it is will depend on the details of your system.
Yes. We have been using Water Law in conjunction with an external thermostat which functioned more or less like an on/off switch (apologies for basic terminology!..but with the Hive I don’t think there was a lot of nuance to the way it operated!)
Now we are moving the remote controller inside the thermal envelope and planning to try running it using the Samsung’s own built in thermostat in the hope that that ought to be the most efficient way to run it. It still uses water law in the background… and I wondered whether it is any cleverer (maybe an element of load compensation) when using the built in stat. First 24 hours of running it like that would suggest not! But it may be that the nuances around the hysteresis it uses when close to target temperature are better for the way the pump runs than using the Hive. Who knows?!.. I am learning and, as ever, it’s a lot of trial and error and seeking out information from others!