Question:
Air Conditioner to Heat Pool?
Is it possible to use an air conditioner to heat a pool? It seems like I might be able to use a liquid heat exchanger to cool the hot part of the air conditioning cycle using swimming pool water. Can someone give me an overview of how to build a system like the following myself (or at low cost by requesting the right work to be done by a professional)?
Answer:
used to work for a pool company here in Ontario that not only did pools but also residential heating and cooling. The unit we'd used was a Water Furnace brand geothermal unit that provided domestic hot water, air conditioning and heating for the house. It was a simple matter of adding a heat exchanger for the pool to the loop The priority, water wise, was domestic hot water first, then pool so that spill over heat after heating the domestic tank, even when it was on demand, would still be heating the pool if needed. If domestic was satisfied the unit concentrated on pool heat alone or as a byproduct of household air conditioning.
This is geo heat remember, so even if it was fall, the amount of heat scammed from the earth was constant and you didn't have to run household AC to get pool heat but if it was running, that byproduct went into heating the pool. Free pool heat.
