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 Unreleased
 ==========
 
+Version 9.4.3 (2026-10-01)
+==========================
+
+Changed
+-------
+- **Raw reservation writes are now validated** (#148).
+  ``update_reservations()`` and ``update_reservations_confirmed()`` sent
+  their entry dicts unchecked, so an unknown mode such as 7, an hour of 99
+  or a setpoint of 200 (100 degC) went to the device as-is. A Python
+  ``True`` for ``enable`` was worse: the confirmed helper read it as 1,
+  which means disabled. Every entry is now checked before anything is
+  sent, with the same rules as ``build_reservation_entry()``: the six
+  protocol fields present and plain integers, ``enable`` 1 or 2, ``week``
+  a day bitfield, ``hour`` 0-23, ``min`` 0-59 and ``mode`` a
+  ``DhwOperationSetting`` id. ``param`` is held to the setpoint range the
+  heater reports in its feature data (``dhw_temperature_min_raw`` to
+  ``dhw_temperature_max_raw``), which is requested if it is not cached;
+  clearing the schedule with an empty list needs none. A bad entry raises
+  ``ParameterValidationError`` or ``RangeValidationError``, and missing
+  feature data raises ``DeviceCapabilityError``. Callers that wrote
+  entries outside these ranges and relied on the heater to clamp them now
+  get an error instead. The checks are also available on their own as
+  ``nwp500.mqtt.control.validate_reservation_entries()``.
+
+Documentation
+-------------
+- **New: what starts a recovery**
+  (``docs/explanation/what-starts-a-recovery.rst``). The lower-tank
+  turn-on setting is one trigger among several. Measured on one unit:
+  outside a TOU window the lower setting reads 104.9 degF at every
+  setpoint and never follows it; at a window's opening the upper tank
+  starts a cycle when it is well below the setpoint, and the lower trigger
+  waits for the close. **A control write re-evaluates**: outside a window,
+  in ``HEAT_PUMP`` with the compressor off, a setpoint write leaving the
+  upper tank below the new setpoint started the compressor within
+  2 minutes in 112 of 117 writes (a median 30 s later), lowerings
+  included. 46 of 81 mode writes made with the compressor off did the
+  same. A setpoint dropped well below the upper tank stopped a running
+  compressor within 5 s (one run). A lowered setpoint did not hold off a
+  draw-driven start (one run, in ``ENERGY_SAVER``). The page also covers
+  traps for anyone re-deriving this from history.
+- **TOU window: the two open cases measured, and three more results.** In
+  ``docs/how-to/schedule-operation.rst`` (one or two runs each): an entry
+  scheduled after a window fires on its minute; a mode held in a window
+  takes effect when the window ends naturally; writing ``HEAT_PUMP`` over
+  a held mode withdraws it; turning TOU back on inside a window drops a
+  running element mode; and the operation setting reports the configured
+  mode, not activity. The section's first measurement date is corrected to
+  local time (2026-09-19).
+- **New: what the heating elements actually do**
+  (``docs/explanation/heating-elements.rst``). The four
+  ``he*TempSetting`` fields describe the thermostat, and **on entry to
+  a mode the thermostat is not what runs the element**: in
+  Electric and High Demand the on and off settings are the same value,
+  and every ``he*DiffTempSetting`` reads 0. Measured on one unit by
+  commanding the modes and watching, the start differential is
+  **mode-dependent**, one bracket per mode: ``ELECTRIC`` at most
+  **0.3 degC** below the setpoint, ``HIGH_DEMAND`` within
+  **(0.2, 0.7] degC**, ``ENERGY_SAVER`` within **(0.8, 1.0] degC**.
+  Whether the first two share one threshold is an open question, not a
+  finding. At 0.7 degC short, High Demand runs the element and Energy
+  Saver does not. These
+  are **entry** thresholds, not thermostats: in High Demand's steady
+  state this unit's history has the element on in 1 of 47 minutes
+  0.2-0.3 degC short and 168 of 169 more than 2.2 degC short.
+  Neither differential is published anywhere in the status message.
+
+  **Later in a stint it depends on the mode.** From one
+  unit's recorded history, 17 of 23 mid-stint upper-element starts in
+  ``ENERGY_SAVER`` have the probe in the 39.4-41.1 degC band where
+  ``heUpperOnTempSetting`` rests, a median 0.2 degC below the field -
+  the element comes on as the probe reaches it. ``HIGH_DEMAND``, whose
+  ON setting tracks the setpoint, re-engages a median 2.1 degC *below*
+  it, which the field does not describe. So in ``ENERGY_SAVER`` entry is
+  the exception and the reference description is the rule; in
+  ``HIGH_DEMAND`` it is not; ``ELECTRIC`` is uncharacterised.
+  ``data_conversions.rst``'s warning now says which applies when.
+  A sampling note with it: the element runs in two very different
+  lengths. Of 115 upper-element runs over eight months, 20 lasted under
+  a minute (median 16 s), carrying 0.6 kWh against 93 kWh for the rest.
+  They are real elements, and not negligible to the probe - a 20 s burst
+  is ~0.3 degC. Because ``currentPower`` samples at a median 30 s, a
+  one-minute-resampled power series can miss one entirely, making a
+  5.5 kW element look like 0.5 kW. Resample power with a maximum.
+
+  Confirmed on the device, one unit, 2026-09-21: in ``ENERGY_SAVER``
+  the upper element engages near ``heUpperOnTempSetting`` rather than a
+  fixed gap below the setpoint (setpoint lowered to 42.0 degC; a gap
+  predicted 22 degC; it engaged at 39.8, three times). It then runs to
+  ~0.9 degC under the setpoint-tracking ``heUpperOffTempSetting``, not
+  to a fixed point. Raising the setpoint in that mode starts the element
+  through the entry rule. And ``heUpperOnTempSetting`` rests at 40.5
+  degC reliably only in ``ENERGY_SAVER`` - in ``HEAT_PUMP`` about half
+  the time.
+
+  Also documents Energy Saver's entry behaviour (the element engages
+  although ``heUpperOnTempSetting`` rests 33 degC below the tank), Electric's
+  upper-to-lower handover and the upper probe **falling** 1.9 degC while
+  the lower element runs, measured element power of 5,219 W against the
+  5,000 W rating, and that a mode write may not take effect while a TOU
+  window is in force. ``device_status.rst``'s Heating Elements notes now
+  point at it.
+- **currentInstPower includes the heating elements.** The field
+  table and *Power and Energy Fields* in the protocol reference, and the
+  ``current_inst_power`` field description, said it excludes element
+  power; ``track-energy.rst`` said it includes it. On a 240 V NWP500-65
+  it includes it: element-only minutes read about 5.1 kW, compressor
+  and element together about 5.5 kW, and the tank's heat gain agrees.
+  All four now say so, with the measurement and its limits (one model,
+  240 V only). (#139)
+- **TOU does not suspend reservations.** ``schedule-operation.rst``
+  said twice that it does, and its own priority table said otherwise. On
+  one NWP500, inside an active peak window, a reservation entry moved the
+  setpoint at its scheduled minute, twice. What the window holds back is
+  the entry's **mode**, as it does a direct ``set_operation_mode()``.
+  The mode is held, not discarded: a mode written in the window took
+  effect when TOU was switched off, and the upper element came on. The
+  priority table and Important Notes are corrected, and a new section
+  gives the measurements and their limits. ``heating-elements.rst`` now
+  links to it instead of to the issue. (#141)
+- **tank-energy: what selects the second branch, and where usable_energy
+  under-reads.** ``tank-energy.rst`` left open what selects
+  ``full_recovery_energy``'s second branch. On one NWP500-65 over 50,819
+  ``HEAT_PUMP`` minutes, ``hpUpperOnTempSetting`` separates the branches
+  with no exceptions: 104.9 degF on the primary, raised to about the
+  setpoint during the afternoon TOU window on the secondary.
+  ``energy_to_setpoint`` shifts by the same 2 degC. Because of that,
+  ``usable_energy`` is not always robust to the branch. In the window it
+  caps at ``full_recovery_energy`` once ``energy_to_setpoint`` hits 0,
+  up to about 3.6 degF short of the setpoint, and under-reads by up to
+  561 Wh. The page and the ``usable_energy`` docstring now say so and
+  recommend the thermistors in that case. The ``full_recovery_energy``
+  and ``energy_to_setpoint`` descriptions in the model, the protocol
+  reference, the API reference and ``track-energy.rst`` now note the
+  window too. (#140)
+
 Version 9.4.2 (2026-09-17)
 ==========================
 

{nwp500_python-9.4.2/src/nwp500_python.egg-info → nwp500_python-9.4.3}/PKG-INFO

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Metadata-Version: 2.4
 Name: nwp500-python
-Version: 9.4.2
+Version: 9.4.3
 Summary: A library for controlling Navien NWP500 Water Heaters via NaviLink
 Home-page: https://github.com/eman/nwp500-python
 Author: Emmanuel Levijarvi

nwp500_python-9.4.3/docs/explanation/heating-elements.rst

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+====================
+The Heating Elements
+====================
+
+The NWP500 publishes four element thermostat settings -
+``heUpperOnTempSetting``, ``heUpperOffTempSetting`` and their lower-zone
+pair - plus a differential for each. Read literally they describe a
+thermostat, and how far that holds depends on the mode and the moment:
+
+* **On entry to any element mode they do not** describe when the element
+  runs. It engages on a mode-dependent differential of its own, published
+  nowhere - the start thresholds below.
+* **Later in a stint, in** ``ENERGY_SAVER`` **they do**: the element
+  engages as the probe reaches ``heUpperOnTempSetting``. That is from this
+  unit's history and confirmed by a commanded run.
+* **Later in a stint, in** ``HIGH_DEMAND`` **they do not**: it re-engages
+  about 2.1 degC below its ON setting. That is from history only.
+  ``ELECTRIC`` is uncharacterised.
+
+The fields also look wrong as a thermostat taken literally: in Electric
+and High Demand the on and off settings are **the same value**, and every
+``he*DiffTempSetting`` reads 0.
+
+**The start thresholds** here were measured on one unit by commanding
+the modes and watching - not inferred from historical logs. That
+distinction matters: two earlier values came from "the smallest deficit
+ever seen to start an element" in a passive record, and both were wrong,
+because such a figure measures where the tank happened to sit rather
+than where the device decides.
+
+Two things on this page are *not* from commanded runs, and are labelled
+where they appear: High Demand's **steady-state** re-engagement, which
+is this unit's history, and the mid-stint behaviour it is contrasted
+with. Everything else is a bounded run.
+
+.. contents::
+   :local:
+   :depth: 2
+
+
+The short version
+=================
+
+.. list-table::
+   :header-rows: 1
+   :widths: 34 66
+
+   * - Observation
+     - Value
+   * - Element start differential
+     - **Mode-dependent, one bracket per mode.** ``ELECTRIC`` at most
+       **0.3 degC (0.54 degF)** below the setpoint; ``HIGH_DEMAND``
+       somewhere in **(0.2, 0.7] degC** ((0.36, 1.26] degF);
+       ``ENERGY_SAVER`` in **(0.8, 1.0] degC** ((1.44, 1.80] degF).
+       Each bracket has a run on either side of it - except Electric's
+       lower edge, whose only negative sits *above* the setpoint.
+   * - Where that differential is published
+     - **Nowhere.** ``heUpperOnDiffTempSetting`` and its three siblings
+       read 0 on this unit while the behaviour above holds.
+   * - ``heUpperOnTempSetting`` by mode
+     - ``ELECTRIC`` and ``HIGH_DEMAND``: the setpoint, same as
+       ``heUpperOffTempSetting``. ``ENERGY_SAVER``: 40.5 degC
+       (104.9 degF), the device minimum, in 96 % of recorded minutes on
+       this unit. ``HEAT_PUMP``: 40.5 degC only about **half** the time;
+       the rest are other values that match the current setpoint only
+       6 % of the time. Why is not known.
+   * - Energy Saver on entry
+     - Switching into ``ENERGY_SAVER`` engages the upper element even
+       though ``heUpperOnTempSetting`` rests 33 degC below the tank, so
+       **on entry** that field is not what drives it. Its bracket also
+       sits higher than the other two modes'. Why the two differ is
+       **not** established: the Energy Saver runs had the compressor
+       running and the others did not.
+   * - Energy Saver later in a stint
+     - Different rule. The element re-engages **as the upper probe
+       reaches** ``heUpperOnTempSetting`` - the field working exactly
+       as this reference describes it. Entry is the exception, not the
+       rule.
+   * - Electric ordering
+     - Upper element to the setpoint, then the lower element, never
+       both, as the protocol reference already states. The handover
+       takes one poll.
+   * - Element power
+     - 5,200-5,242 W over three measurements (two upper, one lower),
+       metered with the compressor off. The reference gives 5,000 W at
+       240 V.
+   * - Zone coupling
+     - While the lower element runs, the **upper** probe falls about
+       1.9 degC (3.4 degF) before recovering. The zones are not
+       independent.
+
+
+The start differential
+======================
+
+Three modes, three brackets, and no two of them the same width. Each
+run holds a fixed deficit and watches for one to two minutes; the
+setpoint quantises to 0.5 degC, so the deficit is set by choosing a
+setpoint step relative to the tank.
+
+``ENERGY_SAVER``
+----------------
+
+.. list-table::
+   :header-rows: 1
+   :widths: 30 30 40
+
+   * - Deficit below setpoint
+     - Upper element
+     - Poll at which it engaged
+   * - 0.3 degC (0.54 degF)
+     - **off** for the whole watch
+     - n/a
+   * - 0.8 degC (1.44 degF)
+     - **off** for the whole watch
+     - n/a
+   * - 1.0 degC (1.80 degF)
+     - **on**
+     - first poll after the mode landed
+   * - 1.2 degC (2.16 degF)
+     - **on**
+     - first poll after the mode landed
+
+So the boundary lies in (0.8, 1.0] degC, and 1.0 degC is the device's
+own storage granularity - settings are held in half-degree Celsius
+steps - which makes a one-degree differential the natural parameter.
+
+A further run put the element on at 2.0 degC (3.6 degF) short, so
+nothing above the boundary has been seen to decline.
+
+``ELECTRIC``
+------------
+
+.. list-table::
+   :header-rows: 1
+   :widths: 30 30 40
+
+   * - Deficit below setpoint
+     - Upper element
+     - Poll at which it engaged
+   * - 0.6 degC **above** the setpoint
+     - **off** for the whole watch
+     - n/a
+   * - 0.3 degC (0.54 degF)
+     - **on**
+     - first poll after the mode landed
+   * - 0.4 degC (0.72 degF)
+     - **on**
+     - first poll after the mode landed
+
+``HIGH_DEMAND``
+---------------
+
+.. list-table::
+   :header-rows: 1
+   :widths: 30 30 40
+
+   * - Deficit below setpoint
+     - Upper element
+     - Poll at which it engaged
+   * - 0.2 degC (0.36 degF)
+     - **off** for the whole watch
+     - n/a
+   * - 0.7 degC (1.26 degF)
+     - **on**
+     - first poll after the mode landed
+
+``heUpperOnTempSetting`` moved to the new setpoint in the same status
+message the mode landed in, as it does in Electric.
+
+Putting the three together
+--------------------------
+
+.. list-table::
+   :header-rows: 1
+   :widths: 24 26 24 26
+
+   * - Mode
+     - Element off at
+     - Element on at
+     - Bracket
+   * - ``ELECTRIC``
+     - 0.6 degC above setpoint
+     - 0.3, 0.4 degC
+     - at most 0.3 degC [#electric]_
+   * - ``HIGH_DEMAND``
+     - 0.2 degC
+     - 0.7 degC
+     - (0.2, 0.7] degC
+   * - ``ENERGY_SAVER``
+     - 0.3, 0.8 degC
+     - 1.0, 1.2 degC
+     - (0.8, 1.0] degC
+
+**These are entry thresholds, not thermostats.** Every run measured what
+happens within a poll of switching *into* a mode. In ``HIGH_DEMAND``'s
+steady state this unit's history has the upper element on in 1 of 47
+minutes 0.2-0.3 degC short and 168 of 169 minutes more than 2.2 degC
+short - so a stint already running re-engages on something much larger
+than the entry figure. Do not use one for the other.
+
+.. [#electric] Electric's own negative is 0.6 degC *above* the setpoint,
+   so nothing at all was observed between there and 0.3 below it. Its
+   bracket is open at the bottom: no run has shown Electric declining
+   to heat a tank that is short of the setpoint by any amount.
+
+**Electric and High Demand may share one entry threshold. That is an
+inference, not a measurement.** Their brackets overlap in
+(0.2, 0.3] degC and the two modes handle ``heUpperOnTempSetting``
+identically, which is a real argument for one number covering both -
+but High Demand has never been watched between 0.2 and 0.7 degC, so
+nothing here measures where its boundary falls inside that span.
+Energy Saver's band does not intersect either of them: at 0.7 degC
+short, High Demand runs the element and Energy Saver does not. One
+caveat on that last comparison: the Energy Saver runs had the
+compressor running and the others did not, so mode is not the only
+difference between them.
+
+A consumer wanting one number per mode should take the **top of that
+mode's own bracket** - 0.3 degC for ``ELECTRIC``, **0.7 degC** for
+``HIGH_DEMAND``, 1.0 degC for ``ENERGY_SAVER``. Each is the **smallest
+deficit at which that mode was seen to start an element**, so assuming
+it contradicts no observation of that mode - where anything lower
+contradicts that mode's own negative. Borrowing Electric's 0.3 degC for High Demand predicts an
+element at, say, 0.4 degC short that High Demand has never been seen to
+run; if your consumer is deciding whether hot water will be ready,
+that is the expensive direction to be wrong in.
+
+**The differential is not in the protocol.** A ``status --raw`` taken
+between these runs shows::
+
+   "heUpperOnTempSetting": 81,      # 40.5 degC
+   "heUpperOffTempSetting": 122,    # 61.0 degC
+   "heUpperOnDiffTempSetting": 0,
+   "heUpperOffDiffTempSetting": 0,
+   "heLowerOnTDiffempSetting": 0,
+   "heLowerOffDiffTempSetting": 0,
+
+A consumer that wants to predict when an element will run therefore
+cannot read it from the status message; it has to assume the per-mode
+figures above - 0.3 degC for ``ELECTRIC``, 0.7 for ``HIGH_DEMAND``,
+1.0 for ``ENERGY_SAVER`` - and treat a tank inside the corresponding
+bracket as a case where the device may go either way. High Demand's
+bracket is the widest, so that "either way" span is widest there too.
+
+
+What the on-setting does and does not tell you
+==============================================
+
+``heUpperOnTempSetting`` tracks the **mode**, not the moment:
+
+* In ``ELECTRIC`` and ``HIGH_DEMAND`` it equals ``heUpperOffTempSetting``
+  and both equal the DHW setpoint. Taken literally that is a thermostat
+  with no hysteresis at all, which cannot be how the device behaves; on
+  entry the measured differential is at most 0.3 degC in Electric and
+  within (0.2, 0.7] degC in High Demand.
+* In ``ENERGY_SAVER`` it rests at 40.5 degC, the device minimum, which
+  is 33 degC below a normally charged tank. An earlier version of this
+  page said the same of ``HEAT_PUMP``; on this unit that holds in only
+  48.5 % of Heat Pump minutes. The rest are other values - 63.0 degC
+  most often - which equal the *current* setpoint in only 6 % of Heat
+  Pump minutes, so this is not the field tracking the setpoint; it may
+  be holding a value over from an earlier mode. Do not rely on it in
+  Heat Pump mode.
+
+The second case misleads **on entry only**. Switching into
+``ENERGY_SAVER`` with the tank 1.0 degC or more short brought the upper
+element on within one poll in both runs tested, while
+``heUpperOnTempSetting`` dropped from the setpoint to 40.5 degC in the
+*same* status message - 33 degC below the probe. For that moment the
+field explains nothing.
+
+That is as far as the entry observation goes. It does not explain *why*
+Energy Saver's bracket sits higher than Electric's; the runs differ in
+compressor state as well as mode, and nothing here separates the two.
+
+**Later in the same stint the field is exactly what drives the
+element.** In 23 mid-stint upper-element starts in ``ENERGY_SAVER``
+drawn from one unit's recorded history, **17 have the upper probe
+between 39.4 and 41.1 degC** - the band ``heUpperOnTempSetting`` rests
+in for this mode - and where the field itself is recorded the median
+start is **0.2 degC below it**. The element comes on as the probe
+reaches the on-setting, which is what this reference has said all
+along.
+
+**Confirmed on the device.** The history above cannot prove it on its
+own: with the setpoint fixed for almost the whole record, "at the
+on-setting" and "a fixed gap below the setpoint" are the same
+prediction. So the setpoint was lowered to 42.0 degC and the unit left
+in ``ENERGY_SAVER``. With the on-setting still at 40.5 degC, a fixed gap
+would have put the element near 22 degC; it came on three times with
+the upper probe reading **39.8 degC**. Two cautions: all three came
+while water was moving through the tank, and readings of 40.4, 40.1 and
+40.0 degC did not trigger, so on this probe the working threshold may
+sit a little under the published 40.5.
+
+``HIGH_DEMAND`` behaves differently, and this is the clearest statement
+of the difference on this page. There ``heUpperOnTempSetting`` tracks
+the setpoint, and 12 mid-stint starts came a median **2.1 degC below
+it**, none in the 39.4-41.1 degC band. That differential is real and is
+published nowhere.
+
+So a consumer needs both halves:
+
+.. list-table::
+   :header-rows: 1
+   :widths: 26 37 37
+
+   * - Mode
+     - On entry
+     - Later in the stint
+   * - ``ENERGY_SAVER``
+     - element on, on-setting irrelevant (1.0 degC below setpoint)
+     - element on **near** ``heUpperOnTempSetting``
+   * - ``HIGH_DEMAND``
+     - element on, (0.2, 0.7] degC below setpoint
+     - element on ~2.1 degC **below** ``heUpperOnTempSetting``
+
+Three more behaviours, from the same commanded run. Each is one unit
+and one morning; the counts are given so they can be weighed.
+
+* **The element runs to the setpoint, not to a fixed point.** It
+  stopped about 0.9 degC under ``heUpperOffTempSetting``, which follows
+  the setpoint. At a 42.0 degC setpoint that was 41.1 degC; historical
+  runs at a 60.5 degC setpoint stop around 59. Only the *engagement*
+  point is fixed.
+* **Raising the setpoint in** ``ENERGY_SAVER`` **starts the element.**
+  With the tank at 41.7 degC, a setpoint raise to 61.0 degC switched the
+  heat source to heat pump plus element in the same second (n = 1). It
+  is the entry rule again, triggered by the setpoint rather than a mode
+  change. A controller writing setpoints in this mode can start a 5 kW
+  element.
+* **Every engagement came with water moving through the tank** — one
+  shower and two runs of a recirculation pump on a cooled loop, which
+  the tank experiences as draws. Whether movement is *required*, or the
+  temperature alone suffices, is not separable from these.
+
+.. warning::
+
+   These mid-stint figures come from **recorded history, not commanded
+   runs**, and they carry a sampling hazard worth repeating - one that
+   bit us.
+
+   **The element runs in two very different lengths.** Of 115 raw
+   upper-element runs on this unit over eight months, 20 (17 %) lasted
+   **under a minute** - median 16 s - and 95 ran a median 8 minutes.
+   The short ones are real elements at full power. They carry little
+   energy - 0.6 kWh across the record against 93 kWh for the rest -
+   but they are not negligible to the probe: a 20-second burst raises
+   the upper zone about 0.3 degC, three quanta of its 0.1 degC
+   resolution, and measured bursts of 41-58 s moved it 0.7-1.5 degC.
+   *(An earlier version said they "heat nothing", from dividing by the
+   whole tank's heat capacity rather than the upper zone's - three
+   times too large.)*
+
+   They are also easy to lose or to misread. ``currentPower`` samples
+   at a median 30 s, with 24 % of gaps over a minute, so **a
+   one-minute-resampled power series can miss a sub-minute burst
+   entirely** - taking the last sample at or before each minute makes a
+   real 5.5 kW element look like 0.5 kW. Resample power with a
+   **maximum** over the interval, or work from the raw edges, and
+   corroborate a run's duration rather than a single aligned sample.
+
+   For predicting recovery, filter on **duration or energy**, not on
+   the flag and not on one power reading: it is the sustained runs that
+   heat the tank.
+
+
+Electric: the handover, and what happens to the upper zone
+===========================================================
+
+The protocol reference states that elements do not operate
+simultaneously in Electric mode. Confirmed, and the order is upper
+first: in a six-minute run the upper element stopped and the lower one
+appeared in the next poll, with no overlap.
+
+Two details a consumer modelling the tank should know:
+
+**The upper probe falls while the lower element runs.** It peaked at
+63.3 degC (145.9 degF), fell to 61.4 (142.5) over the following three
+minutes, then recovered to 62.3 (144.1) as the tank mixed. Anything
+that treats "upper zone reached X" as monotonic during an Electric
+recovery will be wrong by about 1.9 degC for several minutes.
+
+**The off point lags in both directions.** The upper element switched
+off with the probe 0.8 degC (1.4 degF) *below* the setpoint, and the
+probe then coasted 1.3 degC (2.3 degF) *past* it. The device's decision
+and the probe are not the same instant.
+
+
+Element power
+=============
+
+Metered at the whole-unit power reading with the compressor off, so it
+is the element alone:
+
+* upper element: 5,219 W on one run (5,205-5,242 over 33 samples) and
+  5,242 W on a second
+* lower element: 5,200 W
+
+The reference gives 3,755 W at 208 V or 5,000 W at 240 V. The measured
+figure is 4 % above the 240 V rating on this unit, which is one unit at
+one supply voltage - a nudge for anyone integrating energy, not a
+correction to the specification.
+
+For the record, the upper zone rose at 0.87-0.89 degC/min
+(1.56-1.61 degF/min) end to end over 5.8 minutes on a 63.2 gal tank -
+the spread is sampling resolution, the higher figure from 10-second
+polls and the lower from a one-minute grid - and the lower zone at
+0.66-0.86 degC/min depending on where the fit starts; the probe lags the
+element for the first 40-60 seconds, which is most of the difference.
+Those are tank-specific and are offered as an order of magnitude only.
+
+
+Writing the mode while a TOU window is in force
+===============================================
+
+Relevant when planning any of this: with TOU scheduling enabled and a
+window in force, a mode write may not take effect. Measured on the same
+unit, four minutes with no change and nothing logged, twice - and the
+command was not discarded either: it took effect one poll after the TOU
+switch was turned off, with nothing else commanded.
+
+Whether the device queues the command or accepts it and masks the
+read-back is undetermined. Either way, **confirm a mode write by reading
+the mode back, and do not treat an unconfirmed one as failed.**
+
+Reservation entries are a separate case. Their target temperature
+applies normally in a window, and only their mode is held back; see
+:ref:`reservations and mode writes during a tou window`.
+
+
+Limits
+======
+
+One unit, one supply voltage, 2026-09-19 and 2026-09-20. **Twenty-two**
+bounded runs in all: thirteen on the elements and the thresholds, nine
+on mode writes and reservation entries under TOU. Specifically **not**
+established:
+
+* **where inside (0.2, 0.7] degC ``HIGH_DEMAND``'s boundary falls.** It
+  has a run on each side, so it is bracketed - but that bracket is more
+  than twice Electric's width, and one run at 0.4 degC would halve it.
+  Until then, whether the two modes share a threshold is unresolved.
+* **Electric's** behaviour later in a stint. Energy Saver's and High
+  Demand's are described above from history; Electric has only two
+  mid-stint starts on record, which characterises nothing.
+* anything about runs longer than six minutes.
+* whether either differential is firmware-dependent. The unit reported
+  ``heUpperOnDiffTempSetting`` as 0 throughout; if another unit reports
+  it as non-zero, that field is the better answer and this page is a
+  description of one firmware's default.

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@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ Understanding-oriented deep dives into the library's design and advanced feature
 
    advanced-features
    architecture
+   heating-elements
    tank-energy
    tou-recovery-cap
    unknown-values
+   what-starts-a-recovery