In heating mode, a heat pump works like an air conditioner in reverse; instead of keeping your home cool, it uses the refrigerant to warm your home. Here’s a step-by-step process of how heat pumps work: Heat could be sourced from the air outside or warmth from the ground. This is...
The most common kind of heat pump you’ll hear about are “air-source” heat pumps that move heat between your home and the outside air. It’s got two parts: an indoor component and an outdoor component. When used to cool a space down, the indoor component pushes warm air from insid...
Try to picture life without them and you won't get very far. Take away pumps and you'll have nothing to push hot water through your home central-heating pipes, and no way to remove the heat from your refrigerator. Might as well start walking too, because you won't be able to blow ...
Nothing beats relaxing in a cool pool on a hot day. But how long do you have to run the pump to make sure the water is always sparkling clean? Flashpop/Getty Images Key Takeaways Pool pumps do not need to run all the time; running them for about eight total hours a day, ...
As the water pumps through the pipes, it absorbs the heat energy and heats up. This arrangement is what we mean by a heat exchanger: the gas jets cool down and the water heats up.A heat exchanger is a device that allows heat from a fluid (a liquid or a gas) to pass to a second...
Heat pumps work like your fridge. Using electricity, they move heat from a cool space to a warm space. This makes the warm space warmer and the cool space cooler. So, when it’s cold outside, heat pumps move heat from the cool outdoors into the warm house. When it is warm outside...
Have you ever left your phone out on a scorching day and received that overheating warning—the one that tells you your phone is too hot and needs to cool down? Solar panels face a similar challenge. Sort of. While solar panels can still produce power in the heat, their efficiency drops...
Estimated Heat Pump Size: Using this calculator, everybody can roughly estimate what size heat pump they need. This is primarily a mini-split heat pump size calculator but can be used to roughly estimate the size of ground-source or even water-source heat pumps. ...
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Read more about paired air conditioner and air handler packaged systems, a good choice to cool and circulate cold air throughout your home.