LG has
7.8 cu ft LG Smart Front Load Ventless Dual Inverter HeatPump Dryer (Graphite Steel or Black Steel) on sale for
$1,099 (price reflected in cart).
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About this Item:
- Space-saving ventless design means it can be installed virtually anywhere
- LG Exclusive Direct Drive Dryer provides even drying and quiet, efficient performance
- Intuitive LCD Digital Dial Control gives you helpful information with each turn
- Built-in intelligence — AI Sensor Dry with Infrared Sensor takes out the guesswork
- Get the ThinQ app to access smart functions, ThinQ Care alerts and download new ThinQ UP features
- Auto Cleaning Condenser flushes away lint and debris for better drying and energy efficiency
- Requires a 240V, 830W or 208V, 820W 15 Amp Circuit
- Weight: 165.5lb
- Dimensions: 27" x 39" x 32 1/4" (WxHxD)
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It's a closed-circuit system where air is heated as it passes through the condenser, then that heated air absorbs the moisture from your clothes. It's then cooled as it goes through the evaporator and that water taken from your drying laundry goes into your drain or collection tank. Then the now-dry and cool air goes through the warm condenser again and the process repeats. Bosch has a great video on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-hDpODzIV0
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In summer it's equivalent to running a small space heater with power equal to that of what the dryer's pulling from the wall. You're likely better off that way than you are expelling your cooled air and making up for it with hot, humid outdoor air.
It doesn't work like heat pump water heater. I thought it did also until I got one.
The fact is with a convectional gas or electric dryers - you are exhausted you home air outside. This creates a small vacuum in the home. As a result air from outside leaks in. In summer this increases your cooling costs and in winter this increases you heating costs.
A heat pump model doesn't do this
In summer it's equivalent to running a small space heater with power equal to that of what the dryer's pulling from the wall. You're likely better off that way than you are expelling your cooled air and making up for it with hot, humid outdoor air.
Venting out the humid air (like the U.S. does) is less energy efficient but it's SO much better. It's not even close.
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Drying performance is still going to fall behind a well maintained vented dryer but the difference in efficiency is far more substantial. A good Youtube review of this dryer (from Ben's Appliances) shows that typical clothing loads take roughly an hour and a half and come out completely dry (not damp-dry), and a heavy load like a large comforter will take closer to 2 and a half hours, which is long, but it's also completely dry. Which is more than I can say about basically any dryer I've used that "dried" a comforter in 60-80 minutes but was still damp and needed a second cycle to finish it.
Plus heat pump dryers are more gentle on fabrics since they dry at lower temperatures. At their absolute hottest they don't quite reach medium heat in a vented dryer.
Granted, a possible disadvantage is that heat pump dryers are a lot more sensitive to the surrounding air. If you keep your dryer in the garage, a heat pump dryer is not going to dry very well in the winter due to the cooler surrounding air.
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Venting out the humid air (like the U.S. does) is less energy efficient but it's SO much better. It's not even close.
Rates were close to 30cents and just dropped a bit this year. Realistically, the extra 400-500 for the dryer will take a bit to pay back but its an awesome machine! also the washing machine with the automatic dispensing detergent is sweet!
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The way this dryer works is that the heat pump is entirely inside the air loop. Air is blown over the hot side (think the outside coils of your fridge, or outside unit of your ac), warms it up, which lowers the relative humidity of the air, and then blows it over the clothes. The air is now warm and humid. The warm humid air is then blown over the cool coils of the other side of the heat pump. This cools down the air, it hits its dew point, and water condenses on the coils.
Note that all of this happens inside the dryer, but of course running a heat pump takes energy - in this case about 800W. All of that energy ends up in your room as heat (feel the top and sides of a heat pump dryer, they are warm).
Here is a good explanation with a nice drawing:
https://goclean.masscec
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