A quick overview of how a Reversing Valve on a Heat Pump system works. A Heat Pump system is really just an air conditioning system that uses a Reversing Valve to redirect flow of refrigerant that normally goes to outdoor coil towards the indoor coil.
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Thanks for clearly explaining how the solenoid works
So when you’re charging to the liquid line, How do you know when it’s the liquid or suction?
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Ok I have about a dozen apartments connected to one master/slave unit. How can one apartment be running heat and another be running AC on the same unit?
Very good explanation.
how much cost difference the heat pump and electric heat
This is great. Thanks for clearly explaining this so well and providing the visuals to go with it. Helps alot in understanding how a heat pump systems works.
Very educative, thank you.
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?How much more is a heat pump more than an air conditioner?
?Should I always just get a heat pump over an air conditioner?
How is a heat pump
Hooked up to a thermostat ? What wires specifically for both cooling & heating ?
This is awesome.
Been awaiting long for such type of teaching with animation.
Keep up the good work
GOOD JOB BRAIN. I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS. THEY ARE VERY EDUCATIONAL AND A GOOD REMINDER TOO. PLEASE KEEP THEM COMING.
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Thanks for your video
12 year hvac tech here and this guy sure does know what he's talking about 👍
Wow that makes much more sense. Thanks!
Im so glad I watched this video, thanks for explaining!
I only see a lot of electricity needed, specially when it gets cold at night, when the sun is down, the wind is flat……running on coalfired plants with an enormous cable transport loss…..i see a REAL criminal attack on the climate goals…..i see lies, lies and lies……i see higher costs, political finacial control and grip op everybody's lives…and the bad thing: it does NOT WORK WELL….only if you're house is three dimensional packed in thick layers isolation…..even small openings of ventilation is undoing all this "packing", in which any life is actually impossible…
I will never drive an electric car (i did one year, never more) and when energy prices are politically driven up the roof, i burn free available wood in my house…."biomass…", which is no "bio" at all….
Does this reversing valve make a noise when it changes over. Because our Heatpump when it defrost and then sets up to heat again makes an awful noise from the reversing valve???Any explanation for this???
Good to know, thanks! 😉
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Hi Bryan how r u! I got questions I do get it hot gas come from discharge through capillary to shift reversing valve but where is suction line gas come from? Because I see the flow in video suction gas is not come from common suction line, low gas flow back to common suction! Where low gas come from? It’s doesn’t look like to from common suction? Thanks
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Thanks for sharing, great video and illustrations.
Understand that the pilot valve does the shift, at what pressure should the refrigerant be when in heat mode? I’m not sure but I don’t think my valve is working properly, I’m not getting to desired temperature inside the house.
In heat mode, the line going to the evaporator inside doesn’t feel like it’s getting hot enough to provide enough heat to warm up the house.
I put my thermometer on the line going into the air handler, ( in between the insulation and copper line) to get a reading as it leaves the outside unit, the temperature reads around 67 degrees F. The gas should be a much higher temperature going to the air handler right?, so is my revering valve not working right or is there something else I should be looking at?
Any advice is much appreciated.
So if too cold outside , no warmeth the inside ? I thought it used the indoor air to pull the heat and redirect it back inside somehow, but also explains why I couldnt figure out how it worked…I think my brain didn't want it to be like that because it limits the application to the warmth available outside
Way to much… stay away from heat pump
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Thank you for your efforts
so the best thing is to cut that crap out of your pipe and and braze the discharge line and suction lines straight up and let the electric or gas furnace run. solving most of your calls in places like Ohio.
yes i have done this and it made happy costumers.
Thanks! Installed a Nest Theromostat in my Apt about a year ago almost and I had issues running. Trying to figure out why when i run the AC its pumping out hot air! Little did I know it was not gas powered as I though and was a heat pump! I just though it full on reversed the compressor and didn't realize there is a valve that does that part. Only thing I don't like about it is that 1) since it uses the compressor it is just as expensive to run as the AC and 2) it doesn't get as hot as a gas or electric and takes longer to warm up my apartment and thus costing me more money. Normally my electric bill is 70-100 but its been 130-150 this year for winter.
After buying my first home back in August, these videos help. Google has also been a big help to assure me it's working properly. I panicked the other day when I heard the valve switch when it went into defrost mode. When I went outside, the compressor was running, but not the fan. Of course the worst thing popped into my head, like great it's broke. Then after some researching, I was reassured it was working as it should. So much to learn about these heat pumps.
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Thanks for sharing this video. It was very clearly explaining and very useful. Great job
Heat pumps are useless, but I suppose the sheeple will believe that they are saving the planet from climate change which doesn’t exist .
That valve is primitive
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At what point is the reversing valve allowed to shift? Is there any point in it's movement where it can dead-head the discharge line?
Why not just reverse the direction of the compressor? Many compressor designs are reversible, meaning that if you rotate them backwards they will discharge out the "suction" line. Reversing the compressor could be done electrically with a relay, thus no additional parts in the refrigerant loop.
4:33 does all the heat come from outside? How much comes from compressing the gas? If any?
How often do these valves go out? Seems complex.
Thank you for this overview video.
It’s just an air conditioner with the forward and reverse switch that’s all It is you can make a heat pump out of any air conditioner
Great clip thanks .
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I have a heat pump in my house and it's cost effective to run, but the only thing I don't like about heat pumps in general, is they put twice the wear on the compressor because it runs all year long
Thank you for sharing