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Old 04-25-14, 08:07 AM   #5
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You can also get a heat pump outdoor unit (one that's easy to hack), connect it to a few feet of copper tubing, pull a vacuum and run the unit in *heating* mode. If it's not obvious why that would work, the heating mode of a heat pump is just an air conditioner in reverse, so that the outdoor unit is the evaporator.
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