Lennox Sunsource Solar Powered Residential Air Conditioning
86Lennox Sunsource - Solar Powered Heating And Cooling For Homes.
Lennox is top of the line air conditioning equipment. I've sold Lennox products in the past, entire Lennox central heat and air systems, or just the major components, coils, compressors, condensers, or other parts - needed to keep a home's occupants happy enough with their central comfort system. Not only have I sold that sort of stuff, I've installed plenty of those parts or systems myself. There are other brands that I do like just as well as Lennox Heating and Air Conditioning Equipment, but so far as I know, these solar powered, or Lennox Sunsource systems are a first.
I've never actually seen one of these or any other solar powered residential air conditioning system. I don't want to leave you with the impression that I have seen or worked on one, as that would be misleading. I haven't. I've only recently become aware that these are being sold recently, and that, through a magazine article. I think that because these systems are new that there is likely to be some kinks to be ironed out - but I could be very wrong about that, as solar power panels aren't exactly new, and there's nothing new about the technology in a common residential air conditioning system.
I think that these systems are a fabulous idea, and I'd like to tell you just why it is that I think so highly of that idea. I don't know where you live, and it doesn't matter. If you live in a home that uses central air conditioning - then you should well know that when that system is running, that it is most likely the single greatest consumer of electricity in your home. In places like Texas, Louisiana, Florida; and the rest of the Southern United States, the cost of keeping a home cool enough just to not be miserable in the Summers is sometimes a budget and lifestyle breaking endeavour.
The power or electricity used to run such systems comes from the grid, and the grid is kept full of power by burning natural gas, coal, oil, and other such finite fossil fuel resources. Simply put, this can not go on - and quite factually, the US Government murders persons in Arabia and other places under false pretence simply for the profits of corporations that traffic in things like natural gas and oil. That is morally repugnant in every conceivable way, and then some.
Using a system like this Lennox Sunsource solar powered system means that you as an individual have less moral culpability whenever your government uses drone planes to kill little girls in Pakistan, and you should certainly be thinking about that - lest someone like myself have to remind you about it.
If your just a big fan of Dick Cheney, Halliburton, and murdering little girls in Pakistan like B.H. Obama does; then by all means, friend, use a typical system and get your power from the grid instead of the Sun.
Lennox Sunsource Residential Condenser and Solar Panels.
The Lennox Solar House Presentation
- Why You Should Use Solar Energy | Renewable Home Energy | Lennox Residential
Learn why you should use SunSource from Lennox. Lennox helps you use solar technology to power your home.
Lennox Sunsource.
- New Lennox HVAC Home System Uses Solar Power | EarthTechling
Lennox is showcasing a new home HVAC system which draws its power from solar panels, reportedly cutting energy usage and perhaps generating enough to sell back to the grid.
High Tech Revolution and Air Conditioning.
Since the time I first became involved in the HVAC industry I became literally amazed at how complex that industry really is. When one considers the commercial end of the HVAC industry - there's little wonder that high tech innovations are involved in heating and cooling something as large as the Sears Tower, or newer behemoth buildings. Even modern schools, the places that I first learned about air conditioning - are full of HVAC electronics that a residential system would never have.
But increasingly and to continue increasing, home heating and cooling systems are becoming ever the more high tech. The Lennox Sunsource is no different. Literally, you can connect this system to the internet so as a third party website can show you the data from your own home concerning the performance of your Lennox Sunsource system.
The Lennox Sunsource isn't just one system, or one product. Most new enough Lennox Brand Condensers can be upgraded to where the Sunsource solar panel systems can be integrated into that homes central heating and air conditioning system.
As many as just one solar panel can be installed, as many as fifteen solar panels can be installed for just one split a/c and heating system.
If a home owner opted to have fifteen Sunsource solar panels installed for their home's Lennox a/c and heating system - then the power available for the home can also be used for lighting the home, running other appliances, so forth and so on. It's NOT just running the ever expensive air conditioning on solar power, Sunsource offers the ability to possibly run the entire home on solar power.
As a long time Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning service technician - I can't tell you how exciting this is. I urge everyone who is either building a new home, or who knows that they simply must replace their central heating and cooling system soon to check this out, and weigh the benefits of the potential savings - and purchase a Lennox Sunsource System!
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Why thank you, Evelyn Anne!
Lennox is one of the BEST brands that there is, and if you could run one for free, wouldn't your?
This is very cool! I really like the idea of getting the information on performance of the system. Hopefully this will be something cost-effective for the average homeowner and catch on. Thanks for the research and the hub.
Hey Kenwrites!
Thanks for the comment! I'm reasonable certain that performance monitoring is also available on other non solar high performance a/c systems, and probably in more forms than just online too - that kind of thing exists, just isn't common for residential.
It is good to see that some good ideas are coming from technological advances. If I ever becom a home owner, I will bear that one in mind.
Wesman, great topic that you brought in as an easy read and a fare product. I am HVAC trained and certified, aircraft, auto, big rig and home systems. I find the service of installed units to installing units new or replacement. I took 6 months of advanced training for industrial units referred to as "gas packs" and heat pumps added to the units. In particular the heat pump is a system that I care little for. I'm not saying they are worthless, just the heat from the pump is tepid at best and when their ability is reached the turn on the internal electric heating grid and then it becomes a liability to a solar, battery bank system. I have the privilege of a local company that is open to me to bring my trailer and pick up systems that they are removing and in more often than not they require little repair or they are 2 ton units in a place that 3.5 ton should have been installed be it heat pump, stand alone A/C to cool a home that has a gas heater in the end of a hallway that takes air from the floor level, heats it and down the overhead duct work it goes to how ever many registers have been placed. I have to say that on a super cold winter day that appears here in the desert in short spells owners should quit being crybabies just due to the fact that those days seem sparse, hell it's January and it's 78 degrees and sunny, heck by Saturday temperatures will plummet to 68 to 70 degrees.
The point, I'm trying not to wander off the path, Solar panel units with a dry cell battery bank should take the blue collar home owners off the grid for heating and cooling with a small amount expenditure in Arizona where the electricity is Effing expensive, I have not paid for electricity other than diesel for the generator as I set up 3 panel systems to feed my bank and as I got a library card and took up reading the technical stuff [no internet at my hand or library either circa 1990] I got interested in systems that an older guy who was a retired and rehired from Airforce at Luke in Glendale. He went 30 years active and then they hired him at double the pay as a civilian, contractor and said if he knew that he'd have retired at 20 years. He was involved in long range aircraft like the U-2 spy plane and the dark non reflective solar panels placed on the skin in various places to charge systems for different things, what? he couldn't say but he could point me in the direction of making all systems I had like lighting, it's all 12 volt and on different circuits in 2 big panels stuffed full of circuits in clean bends and numbered tape to chase the other end if/when needed. He taught me plenty past the "Ohms Law" of electricity. I got to hold and look at dry cell battery's that had as much storage and power as a battery in a over the road truck, and I bet there exist even better renditions of the small long acting batteries in the spy drone that Iran has. My system is clean and organized with diodes that prevent 1 bad battery from eating the rest.
I have the ultimate set up being under the sand by three feet in the shallow spot but a dead airspace over much between the top concrete and the sand, part of collapsed as we covered it and in the midst of those wanting to dig it up and brace it, I just said screw it, braced the rest and covered it. "nuff said
Wesman you did a great essay on a system that if it ever catches on will probably get taxed like hell due to a left wing radical decides to make their own systems and become a paid capitalist in a capitalistic republic, they will make a new law and go around smashing them like stills.
After all we "CANNOT HAVE FREE RANGE ELECTRICITY". If we mix free range electricity with low grade electricity it may result in the production of something horrible like "ozone" and plug the hole the deficit just punched in the ozone layer, next to the 25 the shuttle punched through.
Sorry for running all over the place and not staying on a great topic, if one can get the level of total off grid living it is great and my advise is if your off don't hook on for the bit they would pay you cuz it would be an additional tracker to someone who won't fall into the 3rd world country. I couldn't hook up if I wanted to. I keep one off line and covered up of the three original and have soldiered together another, tested it and moved it to plan B, I'm a conspiracy nut and we are heading for the greatest depression of all just because 97 percent of America can't even skin a rabbit or purify water.
Peace,
Dust
Wow! I have never heard of a solar powered AC unit but my wallet sure loves the sound of it. Thanks bunches and bunches for the introduction.
Thank you Christopher, it surely seems like a good idea - but I've no idea yet whether the current technology makes it a practical idea or not.
I can't see us not knowing how to do it - but I wonder if the public would be offered something sufficient to separate them from the corporate grid of greed concerning electricity.
Why would a corporate fascist nation sell the public something that disconnects it from the web of spiders?
Talked to a guy on Facebook last night who said that solar powered air conditioning was all over the place in places like Maine.
MAINE???? THEY NEVER EVEN NEED AIR CONDITIONING IN MAINE!
....So I think I'm missing something here. I just don't know exactly what.
Wesman, to pull that initial surge where maximum amps are drown it would have to have a battery bank with an inverter to take a 220v with a 20 amp initial surge or a slow start capacitor that builds it's load and when it peaks it surges the system with starting amperage for 20 seconds or so, in my head I don't see it working any other way, do you?
dust
Dusty - you mean the locked rotor amps pulled when a compressor starts, eh?
Even more amps needed for an older one, or one running high head pressure.
Twenty amps ain't enough to start many residential split system compressors!!!!! Maybe an itty bitty bitty one - most of em' I see seem to run more in the neighbourhood of pulling 13 to twenty amps in run load amperage - "normal use" situations!
Dusty that big comment is a great comment. I don't blame no "left wing" for such though - I tend to think all that "left wing" and "right wing" screaming bit some folks do is their own favourite bit of mental damage showing up on the reality wavelength.
Both parties are controlled by the same international banking cartel, and that's the folks who arm a Saddam, fund a Saddam, and then bomb a Saddam a few years later - making money both coming and going off of all things Saddam.
Hey Poetvix, just like other highly efficient a/c systems - they cost a ton more than the cheapest versions of a same sized a/c system.
Not only do you have to have money to make money in this world - you have to have money to not spend money in this world.
The world is totally rigged on the economic level.
Wesman, I reckon that would be light at 20 but I got a bad habit of thinking in duals on 220v up giving total circuit 40 amp start up. but I yield as my mind has been out of the game a while, I play in the dirt now I went crazy, and really like it he he he peace, bro'
Dust
Dusty a lot of em' these days either come with a start thermister.....which I really don't know much about, and sometimes they come with a small start capacitor/potential relay in them.
But most of the systems I've installed over the past few years didn't have those things.
In any case, the start capacitor (and I imagine you already know this) will send a big ol' bump of amperage for just a split second to the compressor to help it start.....whereas if it doesn't have one, it's likely to dim the lights or throw a breaker trying to start when it's older.
Or of course the older systems can often be easily made to last longer by installing a hard start kit.
I'd imagine these solar systems start drawing amps from the pulled power source to the house, and maybe just run some on the solar.
I dunno anywhere near enough about the batteries involved to know much about how much electricity can be stored in a solar battery, or if a system would be able to start up on that stored power.
It's a damn interesting subject though - and I had some folks air conditioning folks on facebook debating it a little bit from this link the other night.
One of the two was in Maine, and so I doubt he'd be so familiar with common issues in the a/c biz in Texas.
The other guy was in Florida - which is going to be a real a/c using state like Texas, but that person I well know to be inclined towards being a horses ass and not thinking about much of anything that he already thinks he knows it all about.
So in other words - I didn't think I could profit much in the head from those two guys debating about this stuff, so I didn't pay it no mind.
Wesman, I've been smarter on some things but seems something comes along and knocks my feet out from under me. I had a pump motor go out, sounded like a fork in a garbage disposal. I jumped in with 6 left feet [I really got that many] I did the Tarzan holler and all the stuff a super dumb ass is supposed to do, I opened that bad boy up. no brushes?, no shaft? the impeller had a round hard ceramic marble that set in a cup and the only moving part was the impeller where the shaft should have been was the cup that sans any lubrication it twirled 24/7 by the fields changing of magnets glued to the impeller and the grinding sound was one little tiny .250x.250 magnet falling off. It had a lifetime warranty but who needs that when you can wind your own armature and install brushes faster than ups can get them to a 4 hour drive? Man my training in stuff is so last century, I get surprised with new stuff like a kid just finding out that his dingus does more than dump the soda he drank an hour ago, Peace Dusty
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A very interesting read. It certainly makes sense to use solar power which is readily available and as you say free. It would be great to be able to heat and cool your home by that method. Thanks for all the information.
Thank you very very much, Tebo, it truly is a wonderful idea - but I think it needs to be made more affordable for us all.
It's a fine thing to reduce our dependence upon oil or natural gas - but the corporations aren't done bilking and milking us all into poverty just yet.
Evelyn Anne 4 months ago
This is the best idea I've heard concerning air conditioning systems. Hopefully this will be the beginning of something really good for our southern temperatures. Thanks for the research and for publishing!