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Re:Heat Pump Water Heaters by gwbas1c on Monday April 27, 2020 @10:41PM (#23002771)
That's what I did. My water heater is in the basement, and it keeps it dry during humid summers. (I live where we have humid summers.)

In my case, it makes sense because my solar PV is also to run heat pumps for heating and charging cars, and I have a good deal for net metering. Why have a separate hot water system running to my roof when I could just make the pv system a little bigger?

At least where I live, basements get damp in the summer and people have to run dehumidifiers. The heat pump water heater acts as a free dehumidifier that never needs to be drained.

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Re:Heat Pump Water Heaters by kavalg on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @02:44AM (#23004168)
Can you clarify the "never needs to be drained" part?
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Re:Heat Pump Water Heaters by LgWoodenBadger on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @08:34AM (#23006352)
Most plug-in dehumidifiers (the kind you'd use in a seasonally-humid basement, most likely) are used where there there is no floor-drain, so the condensation is collected in a gallon-or-two-sized bucket that you have to empty periodically.
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Re:Heat Pump Water Heaters by gwbas1c on Thursday April 30, 2020 @10:58PM (#23038658)
The plumber hooked it up to the same kind of condensation pump/drain that central AC uses.
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