Split heat-pump water heater?
jinmtvt
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What’s up with that ?
Are we again left in the dark zone or what ?
I’ve easily found a few hundreds of chinese units of split ait to water HP heater,
a euro Fujitsu model, some asian Toshiba models and a few DE and CH brands doing different designs …
Am i missing something here ?
As far as i know, none of those are available in USA/CA
and they SHOULD BE.
anyone found a supplier in North America ??
i’d settle for anything better than our regular tanks ..
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Jin,
It's called the Daikin Altherma. It's available. And it's expensive.
My plumbing contractor has installed a number of Altherma units, and is looking into a few other varieties of the same thing. There are at least a couple of split HP water heating devices. I looked into one from Nyle not long ago, apparently they work fine but are not cheap.
Martin : i had missed the "split" system on Daikin website ... have they been offering it in split units for a long time ?? but if i read correctly, the system is probably too pricey for a regular residential setup,
to be used solely on water heating purposes.
David: do you have an idea of the cost of the cold temp Nyle unit ?
at least, it looks like it's made in USA
i'll continue my search,
but it looks like i'll be doing some imports soon again ....
Would the be any interest if i could get a product that has a sufficiently good COP
with a decent price and cold temp setup ??
Wonder what kind of gov approvals are required to sale/install this kind of products in NA .