Let’s face it… you have stuff, and it needs space! But when indoor space is limited, you may need to find alternatives for essential heating and cooling equipment. If this sounds familiar, a packaged system may be right for you!
A packaged unit is an “all-in-one system” that can provide both cooling and heating from a single cabinet. The cabinet system can be installed at ground level, in a crawl space or on a rooftop. The single location frees up internal spaces for “usable” square footage when compared to a split HVAC system that needs some dedicated indoor space.
With a packaged system, you can have space for those new shoes and have the space to be comfortable in your home! Packaged units have the main heating and cooling components in a single-boxed cabinet that sits outside the home. It’s a package!
Packaged Air Conditioners: The compressor, coils, air handler are all housed in a single-boxed cabinet. The packaged air conditioner can also provide limited warmth by using an electrical strip heating.
Packaged Heat Pumps: A packaged heat pump uses heat pump technology to cool and heat your home.
Packaged Gas-Electric: The packaged gas-electric unit combines an air conditioner with gas-powered furnace performance.
Packaged Dual-Fuel: The packaged dual fuel system contains a heat pump, capable of heating and cooling, as well as a gas furnace. This type of packaged system optimizes the heating source for the conditions.
How Each Packaged System Works
Operation depends on the equipment combination, but packaged systems typically heat and cool your home the same way their stand-alone counterparts do.
Packaged System Air Condition Component
By using electricity as its power source, the unit’s internal components cycle the refrigerant.
Warm air is pulled in by a fan and then passes over the cold evaporator coil, cooling it in the process.
The cooled, dehumidified air is pushed through ducts to the various spaces inside your home.
Package System Heating Component
Packaged Air Conditioners: In addition to the typical cooling feature associated with an air conditioner, packaged air conditioners are capable of producing limited heat with heat strip elements. With electricity as the fuel source, the heat strips are warmed, and the air is heated as it flows over the strips. The warm air then travels through ducting to increase the interior temperature of your home. This type of heating component is mainly used in warmer climates where heat is only used occasionally.
Packaged Heat Pumps: The heat pump transfers heat by reversing the refrigeration cycle used by a typical air conditioner. Through a cycle of evaporation and condensation, the indoor coils are heated, and the air is pushed over the warm coils. From there, the warmed air is blown through the ductwork to increase the temperature in the interior rooms of your home.
Packaged Gas-Electric: The heating component of a packaged gas-electric system is a gas furnace. The heating portion of the system uses natural gas or propane to combust inside the heat exchanger, creating heat. As cool air from the interior spaces is pulled in through the return ducting, the blower motor then blows the air over and through the hot heat exchanger, heating the air. The warm air is then circulated throughout the home through the ductwork.
Packaged Dual-Fuel: Your dual-fuel packaged system has two heating options, a heat pump or a gas furnace. When installed and configured correctly, your dual fuel system can determine whether it’s more economical to heat your home using electricity or gas.
When moderate heating is required, the heat pump automatically reverses from the air condition mode to provide warm air. When temperatures fall further, the system uses the gas furnace to provide reliable, consistent heat.
A packaged unit is an “all-in-one system” that can provide both cooling and heating
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A heating system is a mechanism for maintaining temperatures at an acceptable level; by using thermal energy within a home, office, or other dwelling. Typically, these systems are a crucial part of an HVAC (Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning) system.
A package HVAC unit combines multiple units, such as an air conditioner and heater, into a single unit. The unit is usually placed outside. Split systems, on the other hand, divide each system into its own unit, so your heater and air conditioner are separate.
Package air conditioners can be slightly less energy efficient than other types. This means they use more energy, leading to higher electric bills. So it's important to take this factor into account when choosing your air conditioning system.
The Difference Between Packaged Units and Split Systems
In a packaged unit, they are all put into one box that sits on your roof or on the side of your home. Split units put the blower component inside the house to circulate the air. Split systems require a space in your home to put in the interior unit.
HVAC is an acronym that stands for Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning. A residential HVAC system is a complete home comfort system that can heat and cool your home, as well as provide improved indoor air quality and humidity control. There are many different types of HVAC systems.
Any central HVAC system contains two major parts. The outdoor unit, called a condenser and an indoor unit called a furnace. Though the furnace is most associated with heat, it plays a major role in the cooling process as well.
Split-system HVAC can be ducted or ductless. Ducted split systems use ductwork to circulate the warm air generated from your furnace, fan coil, or heat pump, and the cool air generated by your air conditioner, heat pump, or fan coil.
3. Split (Ductless) AC Units. Split AC units are also called ductless or mini-split units and they are commonly used not just in households, but also hotels or multi-unit buildings.
Packaged units are installed as a single unit and can be placed either outdoors or indoors. They provide cooling, heating, dehumidification and ventilation for an area. Rooftop units are also known as split systems, which consist of two separate components.
A split system has a metal cabinet with the condenser and compressor outdoors, usually on a nearby concrete platform. It also has an indoor air handler that contains a fan and an evaporator coil. In contrast, a packaged unit has just one cabinet for the evaporator coil, condenser, compressor, and most other parts.
When it comes to heating and cooling commercial buildings, traditional HVAC systems can be bulky and inefficient. A packaged unit is an all-in-one system housing all the components that heat and/or cool a space, so the system's footprint on available square footage is maximized.
A packaged heat pump system combines heating, air conditioning and air-handling all in one unit. These systems offer an energy efficient solution for homes in mild climates.
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