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Not in the sense most people use the word "AC" or air conditioner. If you mean it by what it actually does, it conditions the air to be cooler or warmer or hav
by tharkun__ 2y ago
Not in the sense most people use the word "AC" or air conditioner.
If you mean it by what it actually does, it conditions the air to be cooler or warmer or have less relative humidity, then yes. In typical NA applications anyway if we are talking a specific kind (ones you hook up to potentially existing forced air system ducts or mini split types with in room units blowing conditioned air).
We heat with our mini split in winter and we cool with it in summer. And I'm in Canada so it gets pretty cold in winter. And if I said we had our "air conditioner" running in winter people would look at me strange.
- toast0 2y agoA heat pump isn't more efficient than an air conditioner at cooling, because they're the same thing except a heat pump has a reversing valve. For heating, running your air condition with a reversing valve so it cools outside and heats inside is often more efficient than a furnace, so that is nice... But irrelevant if we're talking about it being too hot.
- tharkun__ 2y agoAnd how does any of this apply to my comment? I said nothing about any of that. I was commenting on the use of the word "air conditioning" for heating. Which is technically true but not used in that way by like literally anybody. In any regular use of the word AC it implies cooling. Again, to be clear, yes the phrase is usable both ways. No regular person will use it that way. Get used to it instead of making technically correct points that don't help anyone.