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Podcast: HVAC School - For Techs, By Techs
Episode: Heat Pumps + Inverters w/ Joey H
Description: Joey Henderson returns to the podcast to talk about heat pumps and inverters. The reversing valve, defrost cycles, and auxiliary heat can cause confusion for people who have primarily worked with furnaces or straight-cool A/C systems. Heat pumps use defrost cycles and bring on the auxiliary heat when the coil is ice-bound, which can present a challenge; we need to maintain cold coils without going into defrost all the time. Even though heat pumps were significantly less effective in years past, we will still see reduced performance in very cold conditions with the newer i...