02-23-14, 10:35 AM | #31 |
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That could be the reason i wasnt finding none . I was tryin heat pump dryer.
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02-23-14, 10:44 AM | #32 | |
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02-23-14, 11:40 AM | #33 |
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I happened to look at one of the 7 models on Home Depot's website: LG 3.6 cu. ft. model. The striking part is the energy consumption per year in kWh: only 128kWh!! That's the equivalent of only ~25 loads in my electric dryer!
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02-23-14, 12:46 PM | #34 |
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My old dryer shows 26 amps. Thats lot more than i had expected .
on the homedepot site it dont say anything about a heat pump. What should you be looking for to make sure it has the heat pump. SOmething else that makes it better is there a washer and dryer combo. Use less space . LG Electronics 2.3 cu. ft. Washer and Electric Ventless Dryer in White-WM3455HW at The Home Depot |
02-23-14, 01:27 PM | #35 |
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That's most likely either a radiator type unit or a solid state heat pump. The former only makes sense in heating dominated climates and the latter isn't quite as good as a compressor based unit.
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02-24-14, 05:49 AM | #36 | |
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They have high taxes on fuel because they don't want the kind of vehicle use we have. There just isn't room for 300 million cars on their roads. This is why they have such good transit. You get what you pay for, I guess. They are the first to have below 50ppm sulfur levels in home heating oil (our fuel oil is upwards of 1000ppm). One of the companies that makes boilers I install, has an oil boiler in Europe that is just as efficient as a condensing gas boiler but cannot take it here. Won't work. There is no stomach for that kind of govt intrusion in our lives, is there..... |
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02-24-14, 12:08 PM | #37 | |
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02-24-14, 04:05 PM | #38 | |
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Advantages: small form factor, no moving parts, variable capacity, no refrigerant needed. Disadvantages: 4 times (average) less efficient than vapor compression cycle, relatively low heat flow density, made of heavy metals and semiconductor alloys. I'm still not sure a "solid state" heat pump dryer is more efficient than a resistance dryer. |
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02-24-14, 06:09 PM | #39 |
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Solid state has an edge at high temperatures, but you don't really need high temperature to make a good dryer. Still high enough to make it challenging to make a refrigerant based heat pump, but several manufacturers have figured it out.
Any kind of heat pump dryer will be more efficient than plain resistance heat since most of the heat is recycled. In fact, I'm surprised there aren't very many heat recovery dryers (with what is more or less a tiny HRV) as they would offer a large percentage of the efficiency gains with only a fraction of the cost increase, though they would also need to intake outside air to fix the problem of adding "leakage" to the house. (That's a hidden energy cost of vented dryers intaking indoor air, both hard to measure and highly dependent on weather.) If you live where A/C use is significant, a heat pump dryer can save a surprising amount while a radiator dryer would probably end up less efficient, assuming the dryer is in the conditioned space. If you live where heating use is significant, both heat pump dryers and radiator dryers can make for a good savings.
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