Not a heat pump…please see this post.
If it were a heat-pump…it would be a model beginning in "4TW…
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And to take it to another level. Do you have the data plate for the evaporator unit atop the air handler?
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It would have an “N” instead of a “L”…
I am not sure where you are getting that. Here is the entire model number breakdown.
And to confuse things further, you can have a duel fuel heat-pump. But that is not what you have here.
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Do me a favor and pull up the “BA” model listed at the end. Exact model number.
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Those are minor modifications, seldom can you find a code decipher for the last few digits. What did you find?
I found that 99.9% of the indications was that it was an AC compressor unit and not a heat pump. Can you change my mind?
Nope…How about the evaporator, did you grab that data?
We usually get a lot of paperwork with installations up here that detail all the information you are trying to provide your client. The installation manual ought to have just the information you’re looking for. The listing was written by a used house salesman/woman, so right away that’s suspect.
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Just trying to explain to a client why a heat exchanger is not an alternative heat source as in a heat pump. The seller told them that the “heat exchanger” works like a heat pump when the propane fuel is off. I’m saying it does’t, but not before I back it through for further evaluation…
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Simplest explanation is that a heat exchanger is a hot air radiator. Works just like a fire tube boiler (locomotive) without the water, but then you’d have to explain a steam locomotive.
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The heat exchanger term is throwing me off. In laymen terms, the heat-exchanger is within the furnace which is heated by the furnace flames. It has nothing to do with the cooling section.
Ditto… thus why I posted the link above, which included a link to the other type…
So they questions are: Which is Thomas talking about, and which is Thomas’ client talking about??
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I’m aware of how a heat exchanger works, but the issue is that it does it work without an additional heat source and not on it’s own. So without electrical heat strips, heated convection air from gas or gas burners, can a heat exchanger work without the assistance of a heat pump?
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Which type? Until you answer that question, this conversation is pointless.
No. You may have an energy recovery unit somewhere in the home but I have never seen them as part of the split-system (at the air handler or built in). And, they are mostly for indoor air quality, not heating. They are not popular down south. (personally, I do not think this person knows what a heat-exchanger is or much else about these systems)
This whole thread is predicated on the fact that the listing is wrong. Let the agent explain it. (that would be interesting).
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Here ya go baby cakes!
Looking forward to your feedback…
I agree, no matter how you slice it the agent listed it wrong.
It could be a dual source heat-pump, but we have already eliminated that based on the exterior unit (unless it was field modified to be a heat-pump and I am not sure how practical that is).
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Which type? Until you answer that question, this conversation is pointless.
Jeffrey R. Jonas
Owatonna, Minnesota
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