RotorMotor
2023-05-23 14:13:19
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If we keep the controlled residential ventilation running continuously in summer, it gets really warm inside the house. We have already checked everything. It brings warm air into the house.
I had that feeling with our controlled residential ventilation back then too. We also ran it at the lowest setting during the day in summer, and set it higher at night.
It is very unlikely that a central controlled residential ventilation causes overheating in the house.
Here is a calculation as well:
With active heat recovery, the temperature difference is at most one or two degrees.
For example, yesterday with 27 degrees outside and 22 inside, the fresh air temperature was 23 degrees.
So a 1 degree difference and thus about 50W of "heating power". That is completely negligible.
With heat recovery deactivated, it would be a 5 degree difference, so 260W.
Even that does not make the house really warm, considering that a person already produces 100W of heat or a TV, computer, oven, etc. quickly emit multiples of that power.
By the way, indoor shading brings almost nothing. By then, most of the heat is already inside.
Also, shading east and west usually helps more than south, because in summer the sun stands so steep on the south side that it hardly shines into the windows!