| ahri | - American heating and refrigeration institute (responsible for rating heating and cooling equipment)
- Air-conditioning, heating and refrigeration institute.
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| annual fuel utilization efficiency (afue) | A rating that measures the amount of heating your equipment delivers for every dollar spent on fuel; the higher the better a higher rating indicates more effic |
| btu (british thermal unit) | - The standard of measurement used for the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one pound of water by one degree (fahrenheit) btuh
- The amount of heat required to raise ...
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| emergency heat (supplemental or auxiliary heat) | The backup heat built into a heat pump system |
| energy efficiency ratio (eer) | The ratio of an air conditioning unit |
| heat source | A body of air or liquid from which heat is collected with any heat pumps, the air outside the home is the source for the heating cycle |
| heating seasonal performance factor (hspf) | The total heating output of a heat pump in btus during its normal usage period for heating, as divided by the total electrical energy input in watt-hours durin |
| humidification | - The process of adding moisture to the air within a space
- The process of adding moisture to a volume of air; for example, to an airconditioning system.
- Увлажнение air ~ ув...
humidificación; увлажнение воздуха; |
| indoor coil | A refrigerant containing a portion of a fan coil unit similar to a car radiator, typically made of several rows of copper tubing with aluminum fins |
| integrally controlled motor (icm) | A variable-speed motor that operates at low rpm when possible for efficiency and quiet operation more than |
| latent cooling capacity | An air conditioning system |
| operating cost | - The day-to-day cost of running your home comfort equipment, based on daily energy use
- The cost of running a water heater for a given time period.
- Текущие расходы
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| seer (seasonal energy efficiency ratio) | A rating that denotes the efficiency of air conditioning equipment in terms of the amount of cooling your equipment delivers for every dollar spent on electric |
| sensible cooling capacity | An air conditioning system |
| single package | A year-round heating and air conditioning system with all components encased in one unit outside the home |
| supplementary heat | Auxiliary or emergency heat, usually electrical resistance heat, provided at temperatures below a heat pump |
| tonnage | - The unit of measure used in air conditioning to describe the cooling capacity of a system one ton of cooling is based on the amount of heat needed to melt one
- Various measures of th...
тоннаж; tnge; |
| upflow | - A type of air conditioning system that discharges air into the conditioned space via a top-mounted discharge plenum or through an overhead duct system
- A term used to describe the di...
upfl; восходящий поток; |
| zone system | - A method of dividing a home into zones that makes it possible to control the amount of comfort provided to each
- A series of ten zones (or tones) from 0 (black) to 9 (white) with 5 b...
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