4 ms·
I feel like it's almost a requirement to take this opportunity to share Technology Connections great video [1] on the topic. Personally, I've used a heat pump
by codewench 4y ago
I feel like it's almost a requirement to take this opportunity to share Technology Connections great video [1] on the topic.
Personally, I've used a heat pump as the sole heating unit for my house for the past 6 years or so. There have been a few cases where I've opted to use an extra blanket, but overall the results have been pretty impressive, and the cost savings are pretty huge. (Apartment, so no fuel heat, it's electric or nothing)
[1] https://youtu.be/7J52mDjZzto https://youtu.be/7J52mDjZzto
- bklaasen 4y agoDon't you find the background rumble of the air in the vents very enervating? I was in a friend's place with a heat pump, and I felt like I was inside a badly tuned organ. Lots of atonal near-subsonic rumbling. I think heat pump vendors need to learn about acoustics: standing waves, reverberation, phase interference.
- kencausey 4y agoThat is not likely to having anything to do with being a heat pump. That is probably just the consequences of the blower, the length of ducts, how they are mounted, etc.
- CincinnatiMan 4y agoMy two heat pumps aren’t too bad. The airflow is the same as the AC, meaning sound is present but no rumbling.
- positr0n 4y agoIs a heat pump any different from regular air conditioning in that regard? I'm from an area of the country where you run the AC 8 months out of the year so this question is weird to me unless somehow a heat pump (reverse AC) is different than an AC pump running normally.
- thedougd 4y agoThere are hydronic heat pump systems available as well.