It is a refrig cooler in the summer and a (switch the pump backwards automatically)
and the hot (that normally goes outside is inside - the cold is outside..) heater in winter.

Ours cools for a while - then turns off the fan and then heats the coils. Melts ice
if any formed - then senses room is warm and converts back and pumps cold and then
turns on the fan....

Tends to be on much more than I want - but the unit seems smaller and bill is lower.
I actually have two window units for the (now game room) garage windows that heat in
winter and cool in summer. The central doesn't go there - naturally.

I got two medium units - so I can run just one at a time unless it is severe.
They are remote control which is nice for the game room (that is still coming together.

Martin
Martin Eastburn
@ home at Lions' Lair with our computer lionslair at consolidated dot net
NRA LOH, NRA Life
NRA Second Amendment Task Force Charter Founder



Bruce Ferguson wrote:
I will ask, what is a heat pump??? I understand furnace, wall heater,
fireplace and stove but don't know "heat pump"

Bruce
"Tom Nie" wrote in message
...

Robert,

I thought that direction, too. Around here and from what I could find on
the internet one of the true heaters would cost a ton (fireplace type).
Even one of the factory techs told me to just go with a regular wbfp
instead of paying for the simple fan type (true heater different story).

Then decided to grab a Home Depot special at Spring time. Bonafide wood
stove that I'd put in the basement. I'd done that before in a Raised Ranch
in Boston that I had built - worked great. Then I found out what stainless
steel chimneys up the outside of an existent two-story cost!!! No bargain
there and would have to stick up something fierce above the gutter line to
meet code at the roof. Ugly as hell, too.

Finally gave up and returned the wood stove. Just use a big fireplace and
the heat pump.

TomNie

wrote in message
roups.com...

Greg G.:

Why don't you put a nice wood stove in your family TV room? I am
seeing more of that here, and they are making nicer stoves again,
probably due as a response to the last few years of our northern
neighbors getting their eyeballs screwed out of their heads by greedy
companies.

I am in South Texas, and it rarely gets below the teens here, and it
snows little flakes about once every five years. But we have a lot of
those 40 (+/- 5 degrees) degree days where it rains constantly. Nasty,
miserable, weather with the rain.

The newer designer stoves even look nice. Some come with air
circulators, and some are even meant to be built in for that "hey this
was on purpose" look. I am thinking that some of the ones I have seen
would pay for themselves pretty well in the second year. The cheapies
even sooner.

Just a thought.

robert






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