• Takatakatakatakatak@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    In this context is a “heat pump” the same thing as an inverter air conditioner?

    A split system.

    That’s what most of Australia uses and looks like the pic but Ive never heard them called a heat pump.

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      1 year ago

      A split system AC is a heat pump in any context. So is a refrigerator. They’re all the same technology that move energy via a refrigerant’s latent heat by compressing it into a warm part and letting it expand into a cold part.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, for some reason we renamed them to heat pump.

      I suppose they can also be used to slowly heat water as well as the air, which is the main difference.

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        1 year ago

        I like “heat pump”. It’s a very nice ELI5 name. It’s a pump for heat. A water pump takes water and forces it to where it wouldn’t go naturally. A heat pump does the same.