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Whats the advantage of variable speed furnace blowers?
ordinary blower fans are AC induction motors with a separate winding for each fixed speed (low, medium, high). they are very quiet, cheap to build, efficient, and are well-established in practice.
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Whats the advantage of variable speed furnace blowers?
Variable blowers are typically combined with variable speed air conditioning/heat pump compressors. The compressor is the major energy draw. Energy usage is proportional to the cube of the pump ...
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