How to know if a unit has heat pump
I am looking at a used unit, whose manufacturer has gone out of biz. The brochure mentions the heat pump as an option, but can't tell if this particular unit has one or not. Salesman says it says,...
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Here is an explanation for heat pumps. Because heat pumps remove heat form the outside air the colder it gets outside, the less heat there is to get from the outside air and therefore has to run longer. Do not use a temperature setback at night; this is because the air circulated by the heat pump is cooler than that of a gas/propane fired furnace. If you setback the thermostat the heat pump will have to run much longer to reheat the RV.
You can think of a heat pump the same way as you think about a residential refrigerator. The frig cools your food and pumps heat out, normally at the floor level over the drip pan. A heat pump works the same way in the summer blowing the chilled air into the RV. In winter the heat pump works in reverse sending the warmed air into the RV and the chilled air to the outside.
As stated before AC units and heat pumps for cooling is in accordance with their rated BTUs. I hope that this clears some of the fog around heat pumps.
Happy RVing.
You can think of a heat pump the same way as you think about a residential refrigerator. The frig cools your food and pumps heat out, normally at the floor level over the drip pan. A heat pump works the same way in the summer blowing the chilled air into the RV. In winter the heat pump works in reverse sending the warmed air into the RV and the chilled air to the outside.
As stated before AC units and heat pumps for cooling is in accordance with their rated BTUs. I hope that this clears some of the fog around heat pumps.
Happy RVing.
