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heat pump is an efficient method of cooling your home in summer and
warming it in winter. Although heat pumps are new to many people,
they’ve been around for over three decades, and are found in
schools, offices, motels, stores and industrial plants as well as
homes.
WHY CHOOSE A NEW HEAT PUMP?
A new energy efficient heat pump is a good investment, providing
years of worry-free heating and cooling and significant savings on
your electric bill.
HOW A HEAT PUMP WORKS
A heat pump works by moving heat. In the summer, a heat pump
operates like a standard electronically driven air conditioner,
collecting heat from the air in your home and expelling it outside.
In winter, the process is reversed, and the heat pump collects heat
from outdoor air to warm the air inside your home.
HOW DOES IT WORK IN WINTER?
“You’re saying that when it’s thirty-eight degrees outside, my
heat pump can still take enough heat out of the air to warm my
home?” Right. Even the coldest winter air contains some heat.
However, heat pumps work best at temperatures above 35 degrees
Fahrenheit.
Below this temperature, an electrical resistance heater switches on,
if required, to supplement heat brought in from outside.
HOW WELL DOES IT WORK?
While many people find the winter operation of a heat pump the most
difficult understand, it is during the heating cycle that the heat
pump produces the most significant savings.
Unlike a furnace, that turns fossil fuel or electricity into heat,
the heat pump collects heat that already exists in the outdoor air
by means of its refrigeration cycle. Consequently, your heat pump
will produce 2 to 3 times more heat than the energy it uses! |
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