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Message: [QUOTE="bfs3, post: 4814638, member: 10189"] I missed where you said it was ductless. The capabilities of a ductless system to heat an home are very different from the much more commonly installed ducted systems. You can over size them to heat your house without ruining your cooling capabilities in the summer. They’re modulating. So it can put out 42K heating BTUs in the winter and then lower to 12K cooling BTUs on a mild summer day. They also almost all put out their maximum heating BTUs down to zero degrees (some down to -25 degrees). These can be used to heat an entire home without a secondary heat source. Too many people either don’t like the way they look or they can’t afford them if they need multiple indoor heads. They are the best electric heating system and I can’t recommend them enough, especially if you have solar. Their capabilities are far greater than a conventional ducted heat pump system though. They really shouldn’t be compared until the latter catches up to capability. Unfortunately they make up the vast majority of Heat Pump systems in the U.S. while the rest of the world uses ductless systems. Most people are going to replace their already existing AC system with a Heat Pump. It’s still a great idea in many cases but if they rip out their secondary heat source or their emergency strips then they’re going to find themselves in a mess during a cold snap. My house in West Hartford was a 4200 sq foot barn converted into a home. I never had a gas bill over $200 in the winter but I did have 8.0 tons of AC. It would have cost more than a boiler to switch them to heat pumps and my bills would have been higher to heat with them. If I had oil or propane and didn’t already have ductwork I would have gone ductless. A ducted heat pump set up would have cost a fortune to install and would have cost a fortune to heat with during a cold snap. [/QUOTE]

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