Window AC with Heat (by DJ [VA]) Jun 6, 2019 1:25 PM
Window AC with Heat (by WL [CA]) Jun 6, 2019 1:51 PM
Window AC with Heat (by WMH [NC]) Jun 6, 2019 1:54 PM
Window AC with Heat (by Busy [WI]) Jun 6, 2019 2:18 PM
Window AC with Heat (by plenty [MO]) Jun 6, 2019 2:54 PM
Window AC with Heat (by AllyM [NJ]) Jun 6, 2019 8:39 PM
Window AC with Heat (by Jerry [NC]) Jun 7, 2019 9:37 AM
Window AC with Heat (by Ray-N-Pa [PA]) Jun 9, 2019 5:17 PM
Window AC with Heat (by DJ [VA]) Posted on: Jun 6, 2019 1:25 PM Message:
Had to buy a replacement window AC yesterday. Saw one that said it also had heat.
Is this the same/similar to the mini-split systems some of you have?
I've never seen this before, but it's intriguing. Seems like it must be basically a window-size heat pump?
Might be good as back-up heat, just to keep a place from freezing.
Both H. Depot & Lowes has them.
--68.10.xxx.x |
Window AC with Heat (by WL [CA]) Posted on: Jun 6, 2019 1:51 PM Message:
Suggest you stick to AC only and provide electric baseboard or wall electric heaters based on the KISS principle unless you are renting A class apartments. Tenants and gas appliances and heaters plus cigarettes and joints do not go well together. --201.140.xxx.xx |
Window AC with Heat (by WMH [NC]) Posted on: Jun 6, 2019 1:54 PM Message:
There are two types of window acs with heat: heat pump and electric strip heat, which is basically the same as "baseboard heat" so expensive to run.
The Heat Pumps are more expensive, but much more efficient. We've been buying them at AJ Madison for years but I just checked and their prices have sky-rocketed! ?????
--50.82.xxx.xx |
Window AC with Heat (by Busy [WI]) Posted on: Jun 6, 2019 2:18 PM Message:
DJ, I think it is just a regular A/c, with electric resistance heater added, as WMH said. (Similar to a space heater, I imagine.) For the TTW (through the wall A/C,) I buy the ones with the heat added. Very expensive to heat with those....but... when it’s the coldest day of the year, and the furnace decides to act up, (or tenant has messed with the thermostat so much that the thermostat was screwed up,) that little heater can supplement till the big high efficiency gas furnace is back in service. Cost an extra ten bucks for the TTW A/C with heat. For ten bucks, the redundancy was worth it to me. Only used it once, on a day where the high was 20 degrees, overnight low was zero F. It kept up, was able to keep that small house over 70 F ( once I showed that tenant how to increase that ‘number button thingie ‘from 66 F, where they had the A/C in the summer, to 74. But, then I had to show them to NOT just turn it off, because now it was too warm at 74. So, I had to show them how to turn that ‘ number button thingie ‘ down to 70. I don’t rent to them anymore *grin* ) --172.56.xx.xx |
Window AC with Heat (by plenty [MO]) Posted on: Jun 6, 2019 2:54 PM Message:
I have a portable AC unit that also heats. It's stand alone. Purchase at Lowes about 3 years ago. Just have it on stand by for emergency usage. Have not used the heat but the AC rocks. $350 ? --99.203.xx.xx |
Window AC with Heat (by AllyM [NJ]) Posted on: Jun 6, 2019 8:39 PM Message:
I would not want that in the window in winter as the heat it would provide would be canceled out by cold winds. Maybe it's for cooler parts of the country where it can get chilly at night and it keeps the room from getting cold due to night chill and an open window with an AC unit in it. --173.61.xxx.xx |
Window AC with Heat (by Jerry [NC]) Posted on: Jun 7, 2019 9:37 AM Message:
I have some that I installed in my 4 unit building last year. They are a combo AC & Heat like you see in some hotel room windows. They just look like oversized window AC units.
They worked well last winter for heat, no complaints. Although the building is older it is vey well insulated. They are definitely made for the milder southern climates for heating.
I was originally going to have mini splits installed and my HVAC warned against it and recommended that I get these units instead. Im happy with them and so are my residents. They run off 22 volts and cost about $600 each at Lowes.
--99.150.xxx.xxx |
Window AC with Heat (by Ray-N-Pa [PA]) Posted on: Jun 9, 2019 5:17 PM Message:
So of the seasonal motels around me have these split systems. Then again, they are not open all year round - only till the end of November --24.101.xxx.xx |
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