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junglejoe39:
Bought Thermocore portable air conditioner with heat pump. 11,000 BTU heat pump uses 1250 watts. Im impressed WAY cheaper than my propane furnace. Now I just need more solar!

ndiakon:
Does it use 1250 watts per hour?

MadScientist267:
ndiakon... First, of course, welcome to the board...

Second, that's an invalid query :-\

1250 watts is the amount of power it requires to operate, and has no relationship with time whatsoever in itself.

To form it's *energy* consumption (what you're looking for), we multiply the power by time, usually hours.

1250 Watts * 1 hour = 1250 Watt-hours, or 1250Wh, or 1.25kWh.

So, in a nutshell, yes, by default, it would consume 1250 Watt-hours of energy in one hour. 2500Wh in 2 hours, and so on.

Make sense?

Steve

junglejoe39:
ndiakon I like to think of it this way. Most people have some experience with the small 1500 watt space heaters. They put out about 4000 BTUs. My heat pump uses less elec. and puts out almost 3 times as much heat plus has a fairly strong blower.

ndiakon:
It makes sense now. Sounds like a great deal! Thank you for explanation guys, I am new to this thing, trying to learn as much as possible about solar energy.

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