On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 21:15:21 +0100, Rod Speed wrote:

"Commander Kinsey" wrote in message
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On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 20:54:58 +0100, Rod Speed
wrote:

Commander Kinsey wrote

Why can't I find a heat pump with a good SEER rating?
The USA has a law stating 13 minimum. Yet here in the
UK, I looked at Panasonic and they're all 7 to 11!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Season...ficiency_ratio

That doesn't explain why Panasonic (which are good aren't they?) are
manufacturing a product which is not much better than half as good as the
minimum required by US law. Is it old **** they're selling to other
countries because the Americans aren't allowed to buy them?

The higher SEER rating costs more and you lot don't need the
higher air conditioning capability in your summers where you
lot start whining about a heat wave when its only 25C

But they get used for heating here too, and will be a lot more as houses built after 2025 cannot have gas boilers by some stupid EU treehugger law. I'm already seeing new houses with heatpumps installed.

Are you taking about heating or cooling ?

I want it for both. It's not clear from the Panasonic I was looking at what mode the SEER applies to.