Neat ideas. Nice drawings.
I think we were actually talking about pre-heating the air going into a Sanyo ASHP during the winter time, using heat from a GS loop.
I've been thinking about the best way to use my new Sanyo.
Maybe crank it higher late in the afternoon, before the outside temperature starts to drop off.
Get the house a little overheated, so it can coast a bit, until bed time.?.
The 2 ton Sanyo can put out a lot more heat when it's not too cold out.
More heat for less KWh, then set it back and coast.
Since you have a ton of collectors, I think it would be more advantageous to store away some BTUs during the peak harvesting hours of the day, When your space heating demands might be low, due to solar gain of windows etc.
If you had some large water storage in the basement maybe?
Or,
I wonder if 10 4x8 collectors would work feeding a well in your back yard?
Cranking up the ground water temperature for the long cold night?
I've heard of large GSHPs used for AC that actually warmed up the ground
so much, after a few years of use, the loops had increased the under-ground
temperature enough to make it much less useful for cooling...
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I went to Sears today and checked their stock of crowsfeet.. Nothing in stock!
So, waiting until the Sanyo gets here isn't going to work, since it takes
a week to get stuff from Amazon (unless you pay 5x shipping).
I noticed that both the Sanyo 24,000 and 12,000 line-sets use 1/4" for the liquid line..
Can you tell me what size flare nut is on that 1/4" line??
Then I can order a kit of either metric or standard flare crowsfeet wrenches. (For my torque wrench).
Thanks,
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