redholm
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Sunnyvale, CA | reply to scooper
Re: At 7F outside heat pump maintained 73F indoors Maybe I am biased since I live in California. Electricity here is very expensive compared to gas that even with a COP of 4 you would not save money.
Heatpumps are not common which is sad since we have the perfect climate for them. |
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Re: At 7F outside heat pump maintained 73F indoors said by BillRoland:How are you disabling the supplemental heat?
I turned off the emergency heat breaker at the air handler. I wanted to be certain no other heat was arriving. The resistive module has a circuit breaker on it, when off, it can't heat up even if called.
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Re: At 7F outside heat pump maintained 73F indoors said by redholm:Also the HP should not need an AUX heater to avoid cold air during defrost. A modern heatpump should turn of the indoor fan. If you open up the inside unit and measure the coils temperature it might show 10-15 Fahrenheit but you should not feel any cold air. So how do you heat the outside coils if you can't extract heat from inside? If the heat exchanger coils are cold it means they are not absorbing heat, if there is no heat absorbed there can be no heat output in the outdoor coils... so no defrost... food for thought... |
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| I am with you on this. I have never in my (limited) experience seen a HP defrost without running the inside unit.
If it does not run inside, the outside unit will kick out on high head pressure.
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redholm
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cowboyro,
How do you heat outside coils and how do you avoid cold air inside during defrost are two different questions.
There are two sources for heat to the outside coils. One is heat from inside the other is the heat that the compressor can generate. Both should be used to defrost the outside coils, since you want the defrost cycle to be as short as possible.
How to avoid inside temperature draft and discomfort during defrost is different problem. You will take some energy from the inside but how can you minimize/avoid and draft or discomfort. Stopping the inside fan is one of the smartest and easiest way. There is more to it but let’s keep it simple. The AUX heat does not help defrost it just remove the cold draft problem.
pende_tim
I only seen indoor unit fan on during defrost here in the USA. All units in northern Europe and Asia do not run the inside fan. The unit will not kick out on high pressure, the units are inverters (compressor is frequency modulated) so the compressor will slow down to avoid over pressure. |
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| said by redholm:One is heat from inside the other is the heat that the compressor can generate.
The compressor (ideally) does not generate heat. Definitely not enough to melt the ice at 0F while the wind is blowing. In order to melt the ice you need to deliver copious amounts of heat into the coils. For that you need hot refrigerant - which can only be obtained by extracting heat from inside. |
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redholm
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Not a native speaker.
Not talking about the friction loss in the compressor but the heat that in the heat medium (refrigerant). That heat comes from two sources energy moved and energy input to the compressor.
Look at a heatpump heating and cooling specs. The heating specs have more BTU because the compressor work can generate heat which is useful for heating but not useful for cooling. |
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| said by redholm:Not talking about the friction loss in the compressor but the heat that in the heat medium (refrigerant). That heat comes from two sources energy moved and energy input to the compressor.
Look at a heatpump heating and cooling specs. The heating specs have more BTU because the compressor work can generate heat which is useful for heating but not useful for cooling.
Conservation of energy - energy cannot be created or destroyed. At best you'll get in the "hot" side of the coils the energy fed to the compressor plus the energy absorbed at the cold point. If you're not absorbing energy at the cold point (which can *ONLY* be done by heating the coils) the best you can obtain at the hot point in theory is the energy fed to the compressor - for a COP of 1; in reality you'll have even less.
Heat pumps work by MOVING energy. |
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kudos:4 | You guys are forgetting heat of compression in your discussion. No, not enough to melt ice by itself in a heat pump system, but it is a significant source of heat in the refrigerant cycle. |
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| said by Lurch77:You guys are forgetting heat of compression in your discussion. No, not enough to melt ice by itself in a heat pump system, but it is a significant source of heat in the refrigerant cycle.
I am not forgetting it - that gives the theoretical COP of 1+.
However that heat is no more than the energy used by the compressor. |
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redholm
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Sunnyvale, CA | I like the last two post I agree 100%. |
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