We want to buy a electric heat pump for our 33 ft. round above ground pool. I have read about them online and it says it uses the ambient air to heat the pool. But if the air temp. is around 68 degrees how high can you make the poool water temperature?
2006-09-13 03:00:33 · 4 answers · asked by riverhills4 m 2 in Home & Garden ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
A decently designed one, properly installed with good cross flow ventilation, will manage to heat a swimmingpool (if you use a solar blanket as well to retain the heat) to 82 F from air temps of freezing. I work in Ontario and these are typical temperatures these units operate in.
2006-09-13 06:31:12 · answer #1 · answered by scubabob 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Heat pumps are energy hogs. They are nothing more than a refrigeration cycle in reverse. If you touch the coils on your refrigerator you'll see that they are hot. The heat in these coils is taken away by the ambient room temperature.
In the case of your heat pump pool heater, the water in the pool will be used to cool the coils that contain the hot refrigerant gas.
The source of heat in a heat pump is not the ambient air, but rather the mechanical compressor that is used to compress the refrigerant. When any vapor/gas is compressed it heats up. How much it heats up depends upon the starting pressure and the end pressure.
If you don't have natural gas available, then consider a conventional electric heater element. This will use electricity of course, but the efficiency of the heater element is better than the efficiency of the compressor. And you don't have the moving parts to wear out as in the compressor.
2006-09-13 06:24:11 · answer #2 · answered by richard Alvarado 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
heat pump extracts heat from colder air
2006-09-13 03:05:16 · answer #3 · answered by enord 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
thats how they work, ask someone locally that knows how to install one..
2006-09-15 09:20:24 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋