Central Air Conditioning
Central air conditioners are responsible for circulating cool air throughout your home and the system that is used is supply and return ducts. Supply ducts are mostly installed on opening in the walls, ceilings that are covered by grills, or floors carry the cooler air from air conditioners inside your home. This cooled air is likely to become warmer as it travels and circulates throughout your home, and then it likely flows back to the central air conditioner basically through return ducts and registers. Air conditioners basically perform the function of dehumidifying the air but where cases of extreme humid climates are concerned or where the air conditioners are oversized, low humidity is unachievable in such cases. To run a dehumidifier inside your air conditioner is likely to increase your energy usage, and this situation is likely to apply on a dehumidifier as well because the air conditioner is likely to require more energy for cooling down your home.
If a central air system is installed inside your home, you should set the fan to not function at the same time as the compressor that is set on the auto mode on the fan settings. So basically, the air conditioners central fan should not function to provide provision for air circulation. It is recommended to use circulating fans in individual rooms.
Types of Cooling Equipments
There are two types of air conditioners namely split- system or a packaged unit. With regard to split system air conditioner, the outdoor cabinet will contain the condenser and compressor, and an indoor cabinet contains a furnace or an indoor heat pump. The air conditioners evaporator coil is installed inside the main cabinet or main supply duct of this type of furnace or heat pump. If your home is already installed with the furnace and there is no air conditioner inside your home, a split system will serve as the most economical option for air conditioner to be installed inside your home. Whereas a packaged central air conditioner, the evaporator, condenser and compressor are all installed inside one cabinet, that are usually placed on a roof or on a concrete slab that is next to house’s foundation.
This type of air conditioner is likely to be installed in small commercial buildings. As they contain electric heating coils or natural gas furnace. The combination of an air conditioner and central heater almost eliminated the requirement for a separate furnace for indoors.
Ducted Heating
Sometimes there is a requirement to heat up your home especially during harsh cold weather. With low temperatures, that is likely to make the functioning of daily livelihood activities to a halt, so there comes a requirement to heat up your home indoors to function with daily activities with regard to the household, office or indoor activities smoothly. Larger rooms with high ceilings require fan driven heating that is usually done using split systems also called centrally ducted units. For central heating, there are basically two of its types: – gas ducted heating and hydronic heating. Ducted heating mostly uses a gas furnace that blows warm air inside the rooms through the large ducts. However, the main problem that arises with such type of heating is that it is likely to waste a massive amount of energy during ducting and delivering of the heat.
Whereas hydronic heating uses a heating furnace that heats up water, and then it pumps water through the premises and this type of heating are likely to turn out efficient to function and produce desirable heat but somehow, they turn out to be expensive.
Hope this above mentioned information help you to understand the benefits of installing ducted heating and cooling systems throughout the year. If you’re looking for more details, then go here.