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Sustainable House Day - 2024

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Another successful Sustianable House Day. It was all quite civilised with 46 people across three sessions. Lots of great questions and interested people.

2024 March

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March had typical summer weather (hot days but cooling off at night)fading into fall towards the end of the month (median temperature 20.7 °C). The HRV was in the cooling season but we were able to cool the house by openning the windows in the evening / night (I runined what was set to be a perfect 100% in the passive hourse temperature range for the month by leaving the windows open on night). The split system was cooling during peak solar production but not overnight. Outside temperatures ranged from 12 to 24 °C, while inside we were a comfortable 19 to 25 °C. Temperature from inside and outside the house as the percentage of hours in 0.5 °C bins. I've scaled the temperature in hope that I will be able to use the temperature range for all months. Methods:  I have taken the 5 minutely data from the wirelessTag sensors and calculated the median temperature for each hour and determined the proportion of hours falling inside of the 20 - 25 °C target temperature (using the R f