andriy_melnyko
2024-03-03 14:56:06
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Hi everyone! Please help to understand the behavior of our heat pump. New building, 6 apartments in one house, built in 2022. Heat pump for hot water and heating. The technical room where the heat pump is installed is below our apartment. In the technical room are two large compressors and one smaller compressor, see pictures. Outside are two heat exchangers with fans. Depending on the outside temperature, we hear loud humming in the apartment. Sleeping is impossible. From about +5°C and upwards - there is no humming. From +5 to -5°C it gets stronger and stronger. From -5°C downwards it is roughly the same loudness. The compressors only have on/off control (according to the manufacturer), but it hums with different intensities, even when all compressors are running - I have checked that. And it always hums at the same frequency - 146Hz, see pictures. Recently, an acoustic measurement was carried out. Beforehand, I agreed with the company that built this heat pump that we would try the full load simulation so that we could be sure when it is measured. The colleague came, it was +3°C outside. He manually adjusted the target water temperature, turned the outside fans down, and manually activated the heat pumps. Then it really hummed. The colleague said that with slower fans outside, -7 to -10°C is simulated, and this increases the pressure difference at the compressor - it can hum more strongly. On the day of the acoustic measurement, it was +10°C outside. Everything was done the same way, fans were even turned down more, all compressors running, but there was hardly any humming. The acoustic measurement, which cost several thousand euros, was for nothing... Does anyone have an idea why the humming is so temperature dependent in this case? What is actually humming there, or what can be transmitted so well upwards, especially such a strange frequency of 146Hz? And what could be done if we want to have it measured again? Many thanks! Andriy