Installed a mini split heat pump yesterday

[Woodwizard]

I bought a pioneer 12000 btu mini split heat pump. One for now to see how we like it so far it is great nice and quiet. This time of the year is not cold enough for the wood stove so we would have a small fire and still get the house too hot.

I have been looking at heat pumps for years the efficiency and reliability ratings are getting really good and we installed solar on my shop roof 6 years ago for electric it has worked very well about 80 percent of our electric comes from them including running my shop.

I did the installation myself the investment in a vacuum pump and manifold gauges for the line evacuation was around 150$ it paid for itself already.

I will be adding another 3KW of solar panels to my shop roof setup that will more than offset the heat pump and possibly two more next year.