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Heat Exchanger Inspection and Upgrade

  New dual rotor fans slower and quieter, lower power with better static pressure. Testing shows these to be as good in terms of flow as the faster fans but with more static pressure. I suppose they are designed for use in ducting in a car.  ERV Sensors looking good revised location to get them, deeper into the airflows. All looks good, there is a throttle valve on the bypass now with a single servo. After testing the 4 port valve is not good enough it seems, no surprise. I'm looking at a simple bypass mode with a mixed fresh and conditioned inlet stream.

Fun fact 1 degree C additional heat exchange from ducting in loft

 We get around a 1C boost to the fresh air from loft heat exchange with the duct. The loft is consistently between 4 and 15 C hotter than the outside air and even at night boosts heat in the fresh air duct to the living room. An unanticipated benifit

The Budget

  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

Hubitat Feeling Groovy

  Hubitat allows development of custom drivers in Groovy. Its pretty easy to learn and the Hubitat framework allows connection and management of devices not supported by Hubitat officially like all your home-brew Arduino devices. You can also create custom applications to extend the capabilities of the devices. e.g Calculate dew point app:1153 2020-09-04 22:39:02.775 info Rho = 1.2405 kg/m3 app:1153 2020-09-04 22:39:02.771 info outsidetemp = 11.1 °C app:1153 2020-09-04 22:39:02.767 info Pressure = 100.8 Kpa app:1153 2020-09-04 22:39:02.763 info Absolute Humidity = 125.0 kg/m3 app:1153 2020-09-04 22:39:02.759 info Dew point temperature = 3.5 °C Still haven't finished the absolute Humidity calculation Credit to Bruce Ravenel for the original app code I based this on definition( name: "Calculate dew point", namespace: "hubitat", author: "Bruce Ravenel", description: "Calculate dew point", category: "Convenience"