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re: water heat circulator
28 apr 2005
wrote:
>using only the hot water loop to cool the refrigerant is equivalent to
>an hvac system that doesn't even have a condenser, strictly speaking.
>the desuperheater would have to completely replace the condenser. that
>is really the basis of our previous arguement; whether it could
>dissipate enough heat without adding another cooling method. this
>depends on the usage of hot water. i think for a normal household, the
>answer is surely no; you would need to dissipate more heat...
maybe maybe, or rarely, vs "surely no." an average family might use 50k btu/day
of hot water, like a 5k btu/h window ac running 10 hours per day, or less, on
the hot side, but i'm hoping this thing can work all year in a damp basement,
vs the mere 1-2 weeks per year of ac we need near phila.
nick
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