So when it’s time for heat, it changes out flow & pulls heat energy from the outside air & brings it inside.
A southern Summer can simply disinfect you out if you aren’t familiar with how to deal with them. With that being said, the upside of that is a trade off worth making. During the 4 months of summer, the heat is brutal. However, once it’s over, the next 8 months are nearly as perfect as weather can get. Having lived where the HVAC gas furnace ran for more than 6 months out of the year, I will make that trade everyday. I also totally appreciate the HVAC heat pump having to deal with a gas furnace or any other type of heating method. I guess that the heat pump will more than do when it comes to taking care of the chill during the middle of our winter. With that being said, those temperatures rarely get below freezing. But even then, the heat pump makes our condo super cozy. It just blows our mind how it does this. You see, all the HVAC heat pump does strange in the Wintertide is switched up in terms of direction. By that I mean when the thermostat is switched to heating, the heat pump simply reverses the refrigerant flow. Really, that’s all that happens. The heat pump helps cool the condo by removing heat energy from the condo & exhausting it outside. So when it’s time for heat, it changes out flow & pulls heat energy from the outside air & brings it inside. It doesn’t need any other help until the temps dip to 40 or lower. When that happens, there is an electric grid which produces extra warming to supplement the heat energy the heat pump grabs from outside. It really is a shock.