Electric heater & Air Cond Combo
PatchogPhil
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Like found in many hotel rooms, but for a smaller bedroom. It’s both a heater and an air conditioner.
Where can they be bought? Online source would be a help.
Found one unit but it is way TOO LARGE for a small bedroom.
It’s for a bedroom in a vacation home, where the electric rates are kinda cheap. There isn’t much “wall” space to put in a window air conditioner and a vented heater – it’s a second floor room in a “barn” type building. 1st level is open barn/storage area with bedrooms up high on one side like a loft. Meaning the bedroom outside walls are mostly slanted roof with only one doghouse dormer with window.
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The device to which you refer, the common hotel/motel room unit is called a PTAC (Packaged Terminal Air Conditioner). They come in a few different sizes (7,000, 9,000, 12,000 and 15,000 btuh cooling) and two basic configurations: AC with electric resistence heat and heat pump versions.
I don't know where to purchase them but the manufacturuer that I am most familiar with is Amana. Mitsubishi and GE also make them, as I'm sure others do too. You can get them in a vertical version that will fit a 24" x 24" closet (on an exterior wall).
Tim is there any fundimental difference between a PTAC and a through the wall unit other than the shape of the packaging?
Phil
Here are a couple of online sources;
http://acforsale.com/
http://www.genieac.com/
No difference in fundamental operation. Two coils, compressor, two fans, thermostat. Not common for a TWAC to provide heat, though.
Some are noisy
try to hear one b4 you buy
Thanks everyone for the info.