Trying out the heat pump

Trying out the heat pump

Dealing with all that Wintertide throws at myself and others is over.

I am fortunately leaving this section after a lifetime spent dealing with the Wintertide weather and all the havoc it creates. There will be no more Heating plus Air Conditioning furnace cranking, sub zero afternoons for this guy. I even offered away all the gear I have for dealing with the snow and ice. That’s right, we are moving south and chasing the sun for the rest of our lives. Part of that change will also include a heat pump instead of a furnace for Heating plus Air Conditioning heat during the time that we were in the winter. Every one of us isn’t going so far south that we won’t have any winter. Our up-to-date region is known to have some freezing snaps with highs around 50. So the lows can get close to the freezing point now and again. With that out of the way, that is a genuinely far cry from sub zero temperatures that’s for sure. This means that while we will need the occasional heat source, the furnace is a thing of the past. The heat pump, which is the more popular of the heating and cooling methods down here, will be heating my entire home. It’s pretty remarkable that this equipment is able to truly extract heating energy from the outside air. What’s even better is all it has to do is reverse the refrigerant flow to do this. When a heat pump is cooling, it is also extracting tons of energy from the apartment and exhausting it outside. During the Wintertide it does just the opposite to sizzling the house.

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