Lol, that's not quiet how they work, basically the same as a condenser except a heatpump uses the same air constantly, so A air is already dry so holds more moisture each time and B it's already warm.Is the economy of a heat pump dryer a misconception, with respect to the cost of the heat that is removed from the room you are running it in ?
so, indoors, you'd be using more central heating, which kind of defeats the point.
LolLol,
The initial heating up takes longer. Your talking an extra 10 minutes.Lol
they loose efficiency at lower ambiant temperatures - why do they need that additional energy.
Not sure what kind of crap people are buying to get to some of these time estimates
A very full load on my heat pump dryer takes about two hours. But the clothes don't get to a million degrees and nothing shrinks
Heat pump dryers are crap.
They take 3-4 times longer to dry than a normal dryer.
They also only work well indoors. So not in a garage type setting.
They are also ridiculously expensive.
Condenser is best of both worlds. More efficient than vented and fast and cheap to buy.
Candy own hoover and a host of other makes in the market. If honestly pick up a decent cheap candy. A decent one with 10kg capacity, WiFi, etc is around £300-£400.
If you want a Samsung with that type of capacity and heat pump it's easily £800+.
It's better to buy cheap and have it last 5-10 years then buy again as technology gets better than buy expensive and have it last 15 years.
Candy give you a 10 year warranty on parts of you register it.
Don't agree with most of that - we got a Bosch Heat Pump condenser a couple of years ago - its on at least once a day. Costs next to nothing to run, dries clothes as quickly as our last non condensing/non heat pump dryer - definitely not 3-4 times as long (it holds 9kg and will do this in 3h). It won't work in an outbuilding, but that isn't an issue for us.
I will just chime in here with my experience of two heat pump dryers
You get what you pay for!
First was an expensive indesit that lasted three years - yes it took an age and sometimes had to go through two cycles to get 'dry'. When it packed up I ripped it apart to see how poor the engineering was - it was terrible. Lint everywhere, all over the fins - everywhere! I was fastidious with cleaning both filters
Now have a Samsung - omg
One cycle and it's done, takes around 1h40 for an average mixed load. The fluff filter doesn't get clogged up and the filter on the heat pump so far hasn't even got dusty. A world away from the last one
Which say that the average priced heat pump dryer versus the average priced condensing dryer would take six years to make up the price difference between them in fuel savings.
You get what you pay for!
First was an expensive indesit that lasted three years
White knight tumble driers are by far the best in the market (I'm biast I've had one for 20+ years), British designed and manufactured, rock solid only ever had to replace a bearing or two on our vented drier in the last 10 years. It cost me £99 direct from White Knight and running costs include 4-3 hours of operation every weekday 18p per hour for a family of four.