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Re:What a year of solar and batteries saved us in 2025 by lm28469 on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @05:24PM (#46609189)
> Can you offer some evidence of this? I don't see how adding a refrigerant to water heat exchanger after the compressor, before the reversing valve, could possibly hurt the longevity of a system.

The nearly infinite amount of forum posts about heat pumps dying prematurely and costing thousands and thousands to fix. You don't see how adding complexity on top of complexity in a complex system add points of failures ?

> Thing with mini-splits is you replace the entire unit so it doesn't matter.

I forgot this is an american centric forum and things are just made cheap/disposable because "it's cheaper'

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Re:What a year of solar and batteries saved us in 2025 by MisterTea on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @06:26PM (#46609969)
> You don't see how adding complexity on top of complexity in a complex system add points of failures ?

I don't see see a heat pump as complex. It's a compressor, valves and coils. The complexity are the stupid computers foisted onto us.

> I forgot this is an american centric forum and things are just made cheap/disposable because "it's cheaper'

We don't have a choice. Do you? We're all at the mercy of the manufactures.

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