A Drip-Free, Through-Window Heat Pump
This impressive window unit can heat and cool a space, all without condensate.
What at first glance appears to be a standard through-window air-conditioning unit is actually a full-fledged heat pump capable of both cooling and heating a space. And it can do all this without dripping condensate down the sides of a building.
Thoughtfully engineered and incredibly efficient, Midea’s Packaged Window Heat Pump is a compact HVAC solution that’s perfect for multi-family homes. Watch the video above or keep reading to learn more from high-performance builder Ben Bogie about this impressive product.
Here’s the Transcript
We’re here at the Midea booth, and I want to show you something that I’ve been keeping my eye on for about a year or so now. It’s a through-window unit that looks like an air-conditioning unit, but it’s actually a full heat pump. So it can do cooling and space heating as well.
It’s a large unit, but every detail has been thoughtfully planned for efficiency and ease. It’s self-supported by gas shock hinges. This means you can slide it through from the inside of the building and simply lower it down so it drops into place. The unit also doesn’t fully obstruct your window opening like traditional window units. Plus, the unit is going to provide heating.
Anybody who’s had a window air-conditioning unit knows they generate condensate and they drip nonstop. So if you have a tall building with a bunch of these, you don’t want a lot of condensate dripping down below. Midea didn’t want that problem either, so the company created a small mister that gathers any generated condensate, pressurizes it, atomizes it, and sprays it out into the air.
Another supercool feature of this unit is that during the heating season, it will capture condensate and emit it to the inside of a building. So as you’re heating in a very cold climate and it’s dry inside, this is going to put moisture back into the building.
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