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A New Encyclopedia Article on Ductless Minisplits
GBA Pro members have full access to dozens of informative articles in the GBA Encyclopedia
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Putting the Duct Back in Ductless
A would-be HVAC designer wonders if a ductless minisplit head can be hidden in a closet and connected to conventional ductwork
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Rules of Thumb for Ductless Minisplits
How to design a house that can be heated with one or two ductless minisplits — and how to operate the units once the house is occupied
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Tweaking Plans for a Minisplit System
With heating and cooling load calculations in hand, a homeowner tries to fine-tune specs for a minisplit system
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Ductless Minisplit Heat Pumps
Heating and Cooling Without Central Ducts
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Oversizing a Minisplit Heat Pump System
Without knowing the proper heating and cooling loads, you can lose the benefit of a variable-capacity HVAC system
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What is a Minisplit?
A breakdown of the terminology used to describe different heat-pump systems
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Heating a Tight, Well-Insulated House
For most superinsulated homes, a furnace is overkill
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Installing a Ductless Minisplit System
We decided to get rid of our oil boiler and install an air-source heat pump from Japan
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Ductless Minisplits May Not Be As Efficient As We Thought
New England researchers find that minisplits have lower air flow rates and lower COPs than expected