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• shortwavesurfer@monero.town ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Just watched a heat pump install vid and that looks a bit complicated. Something like window AC units just require you to install it and turn it on. Shouldnt heat pumps be simple like that too?

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  • philpo@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    A window unit is technically a heat pump (air to air heat pump). But they are terribly inefficient and ineffective - they often achieve less than 25% of the heating capacity of a proper heating setup. (Cooling is a bit different)

    Heatpumps are comparably easy to install if you compare them to regular thermal heating. You won’t need a chimney, no fuel storage or gas pipes. And they are much, much,much easier to maintain - no ash removal, no cleaning of potentially cancerous substances from a burn chamber,etc.

    Of course they are still more complicated than a window unit - but that is only slightly so with the benefit of massive gains.

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