Comparison Between Fan Coil and Heat Pump

There’re common points of heat pumps and fan coils before we’re comparing a fan coil with heat pump.Unlike a traditional boiler or furnace, fan coil units and heat pump systems are both capable of heating and cooling your home. They both can also maintain the humidity levels inside your home. They also can work together, with your furnace and air conditioner, or separately.

Fan Coils 

As indicated by its name, the main components of a fan coil system are a fan, and heating and/or cooling coils. The fan draws air into the system through an air filter, either from the outside, or recirculated from the inside, or a combination of the two. 

The heating and cooling coils in a fan coil system are placed either just before the air enters the fan or just after it is blown away from the fan. The cooling coil is used in summer to air-condition the air inside your home, and the heating coils are used to heat the house in winter.

Benefits of Fan Coils

The filtered air, coupled with increased air circulation can reduce the buildup of mold, viruses, bacteria and other pollutants in the air for better indoor air quality.  By complementing your heat pump, furnace and/or air conditioner, fan coils can help lower down the energy consumption.

Thermostat for Fan Coil

Typically, the thermostats are divided to 2 major versions 2 pipes or 4 pipes fan coil thermostat. The 2 pipes fan coil normally use same water pipe for water flow and do heating&cooling based on the season. While the 4 pipes one can run both hot water and cool water in the pipes. The thermostat fan motors allows on off type control or modulate 0-10v control.It also supports multiple connection interface like a KNX Fan Coil ,Thermostat, Bacnet Fan Coil Thermostat, Modbus Fan Coil Thermostat. It allows change-over sensor connection to do automatic switch over of winter heating and summer cooling.

Heat Pumps 

In basic terms, heat pumps remove heat energy from your home in summer and bring heat energy into your home in winter. The two basic types of heat pumps are air-source heat pumps and ground-source heat pumps.

Air-source heat pumps are the most popular choice for residential heating and cooling. They transfer heat between the air inside your home and the air outside your home.

Ground-source heat pumps, or geothermal heat pumps, transfer heat between the interior air of your home and the ground outside your home.

Benefits of Heat Pumps

The heat pump system can manage proper humidity levels inside your home, in winter and summer, is one of the best ways to improve home comfort. Heat pumps don’t actually produce heat or cool the air. That reduces the energy needed to heat or cool your home.

Thermostat for Heat Pump

According to the E-Top thermostat catalog, we can offer the FCU Floor Heating thermostat, Heat Pump FCU thermostat,  Fan coil boiler thermostat and so on. For more details, please drop an email to [email protected]