Greenway

  30°C plus Autumn day here a good test fro the cooler in anger   70 Liter bin a tank and a 750LPH bilge pump

  Simple loft fan rule

 

A bit or research and it seems a plenum on the outlet of the heat exchanger seemed worth a try. 60 Litre Plenum on the vent side. Seems to make the vents more balanced measuring the flow I can regulate the rate more evenly with one vent having less effect on the others, I'm going to add a presure sensor to the chamber see if there is any pressure in it I noticed coupling between room vents. e.g. I set one room and move to the next then recheck the first vent and its flow rate was changed. I was never happy with all those Y junctions, a very poor manifold design I suspect. As an added bonus its made the vent even quieter too. It works well within a range I can set the vent flows independently of one another, also the living room and office flows are much improved which have the longest ducts. The flow at the office and living room are 50% higher if needed now which is great for working at home. The office got warm and sticky in the past, not anymore. More Photos Sound test My refere

Alexa Integration   Circuit Design We made an EVSE from parts on Banggood & Aliexpress mostly 16A 3.7 kW EV charging controller board + Type 1 EV  Current Sensor This is the key component for controlling charge level and auto shut off at the end of the charge. Probably saves a wee bit of energy with the power to the EVSE disconected in the off state also. Irms = emon1.calcIrms( 1480 ); // Calculate Irms only Kw = (Irms * 230.0 ) / 1000.0 ; float hours = (millis() - lastMillis) / ( 1000.0 * 3600.0 ) ; TotalChargeHours += hours; lastMillis = millis(); //CALC KWH if ( abs (Kw) > 0.1 ) KWh += (Kw * hours); Note: You must add a suitable burden resistor if one is not on the CT board already or the high voltage will damage the Arduino. The one shown has a burden resistor. PCB size 30.0mm X 24.0mm X 1.6mm Compatible interfaces 2.54 3-pin interface and 4-pin Grove interface Transformation coefficient 1000:1 Input current 0 - 5 A Output current 0 - 5 mA Sa

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  Decent low energy cost for all electric heating 3.5KW heat pump and a 2KW electric convection heater. Energy consumption The raw data is here  The data shows the device switching on and off under control of Hubitat 

  The Hookup For proof of concept seems to run reliably in the lab. I don't want to be up and down ladders to make update I intend keeping the control system in Hubitat so I can tinker to my Hearts content. Boost fan PWM control as well as start relays. The valve position is a separate driver and device in Hubitat, This will use one of the PWM Four boost fans in the ducts for each room inlet. One fan in the two way turbo exhaust valve. The valve position is a separate driver and device in Hubitat, This will use one of the PWM pins on the Wemos and its analogue input for the position pot Hubitat Valve Position Driver import groovy.json.JsonSlurper metadata { definition(name: "Greenway ERV Turbo Valve", namespace: "Greenway", author: "Nick Goodey") { capability "Initialize" capability "Switch" capability "Switch Level" command "on" command "off" } preferences { section("Device&qu

  This is a rough break down of materials costs NZ$28 1 X 60 litre Sistema box NZ$30 3 X 7500CPM main fans NZ$20 4 X 6500RPM booster fans NZ$3.50 4 X Fan speed controllers NZ$30 1 X 30 Amp PSU NZ$104 5 X diffusers with 3M of duct and Y junction NZ$21 4 X 150mm 3M ducts NZ$14 2 X 150mm 1M ducts NZ$1.00 12 X 150mm PVC flower pots NZ$15 6 X 6mm Corroplast sheet 900 X 1200 NZ$ 50 Arduinos and breakouts for project NZ$!00 Wire plugs sockets misc electrical NZ$60 New tools NZ$150 Tape screws wood sundry hardware Hot glue sticks NZ$30 2 X Sitema filer boxes NZ$12 2 X Foam exercise mats NZ$30 PC Servos NZ$100 Experiments breakages re-work Total NZ$1,510