Your heat pump uses refrigeration to operate<\/a>\u2014even in the winter. Refrigeration cannot actually produce cooling, as \u201ccool\u201d is not an energy, like heat is. Instead, it removes heat from the air. Refrigerant moves through a coil in the indoor portion of your air conditioner, removing heat from the air blowing over the coil and, in turn, cooling down the coil. The heat dissipates from the refrigerant outside. In the winter, this process simply reverses to bring heat inside, dissipating from the refrigerant in the indoor unit.<\/p>\nThe indoor unit and outdoor components must work year round.<\/h3>\n
Many people are surprised to find that, when they turn their thermostat to heating mode, they can still hear their outside units running. This is quite necessary for your heat pump to work, but we\u2019ve actually heard of calls coming through to technicians from homeowners concerned that the AC was operating in the winter. That outside fan is running because it must move air past the coil so that it can absorb heat and move it indoors.<\/p>\n
Adding more refrigerant rarely solves your heating and cooling problems<\/h3>\n
When a heat pump isn\u2019t working sufficiently, people often ask us, \u201cDoes it need more refrigerant?\u201d It\u2019s possible that a lack of refrigerant is your problem, but a good technician searches around for leaks to find why refrigerant has left the system. It doesn\u2019t do so naturally, and it typically means there is a problem (unless it didn\u2019t have enough in the first place.<\/p>\n
Call DB Heating & Cooling, Inc today for all of your Wyckoff heating and cooling needs!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A heat pump is just like your standard central air conditioning system, aside from a few major changes that allow it to heat as well. We often recommend heat pumps to homeowners searching for a new comfort system, but we find that a large number of our customers do not know much about them. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[234,198],"class_list":["post-1388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heat-pumps","tag-heat-pumps","tag-wyckoff"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dbheatingandcooling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dbheatingandcooling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dbheatingandcooling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dbheatingandcooling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dbheatingandcooling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1388"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dbheatingandcooling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1390,"href":"https:\/\/www.dbheatingandcooling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions\/1390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dbheatingandcooling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dbheatingandcooling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dbheatingandcooling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}