The portable oil filled radiators don't have the same fire risk and work much better I find for steady state winter heating. Low is around 600W and can run a couple at that level. They are a little slower if you are trying to get heat immediately in a cold room but for regular living conditions I use them instead of paying for propane for the high efficiency forced air furnace.
JEPA inspectors prob donned in ninja gear, heading to your hillside location as we speak ..
Some of the Midea window units can also do heat pump heating down to 41F I think.
When it gets that cold here
Oh that's shorts weather here
You get soft, quick. I survived 5 years on Rochester, NY's brutal winters, only to think my compatriots in the PNW were ridiculous when they shut the city down for a few flakes of snow.
You can always get the 608 in the future. I have both with the 608 as Universal. Have had both for about 27 years now.
I prefer to install condensing units in the shade if possible.
The West wall is my only option, and it gets HOT w/ the setting Sun.
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that is because as long as its a totally sealed system with no ability to charge or discharge it can only leak gas if it gets a hole in the system somewhere. mini splits and split units in general rely upon crimps and clamps and connections not to leak and we know that does not work. every time you leak out and need a recharge you are damaging internal components through wear (lack of oil), corrosion, (introduction of moisture) and heat build up due to overwork.
How you doing Dude? and to answer: not the ones in the local cities! ha ha ha. fuck em. There loss of tax dollars...I hear their building inspectors are far more reasonable...
Although I agree with this quote mostly I have to point out that Panasonic seems to make fridge that breaks the mold so to say. ours uses nearly half the energy of any other models on the market aswell as keeping produce fresher for far longer, a head of lettuce seems to me fine for over a month even in Thai heat.
there are undoubtedly some good units out there still. I think most units int he US die due to boards that fry, not the compressor units. though I could be mistaken.
Yeah when you diy install a $600 mini split you don't bother about a warranty.
I was able to find Hessaire sold at Home depot a DIY system starting at $900. Home depot stocks these in the store if you use a HD credit card get 1 year to return it. Plus I checked their warranty support is for a DIY install.
Only 1 year warranty but 2x the price of one without a warranty.
12,000 btu covers 600’ as a rule of thumb. I have an EG4 12k hybrid and cools 500sq/ft insulated space 8’ ceilings very easily with lots to spare, prob could go a couple hundred more with it.
I noticed that 7 year on the compressor but they know compressor hardly ever fails on these always the electronics. There is a cheap goodman E series less then $500 of course no warranty if it is DIY installed. It's made by Daikin so parts should be easy to get where Chinese unknown branded Midea manufactured is not as easy to get parts. The electronics are not that expensive about $100 for a control board.
