GE Profile Combo – When you install roof top solar like we did last year, you become hyper focused on electricity use because you can monitor minute by minute energy production as well as usage.
Nothing is worse than watching the sun slowly creep up on a cold winter morning and slowly melt the frost off the panels, starting to produce the meager amounts of solar power on the short and often cloudy dead of winter days – and then someone fires up some energy hog like the coffee maker, toaster, hair dryer or the evil electric dryer.
Dryers use a tremendous amount of energy in one’s household – sometimes up to 40 percent of your total energy usage. This is why we try to hang our clothes on the line when we can and even with the dishwasher, turn off the heat dry and just let the dishes dry with the door open.
I know I’ve watched our dryer suck up nearly all the power that our solar panels can produce even at peak sun. And the dryer runs for an hour or so when its in use, so I have been looking for a heat pump dryer to reduce electricty use.
We’ve installed a mini-split heat pump for AC and Heat and a hybrid hot water heater that using heat pump technology to pull heat out of the air in the utility room so I know this technology sips electricity.
When GE released their all new heat pump washer and dryer combo this past summer I was all over it. Not only does it save so much electricity that it pays for itself in a few years, it takes up half the space, frees up a 220 circuit breaker in the electric panel and doesn’t pump warm air outside.
When the furnace is running, the kitchen vent, bathroom vents, and the dryer are all going, this tight house has no where to draw any replacement air and usually starts pulling in smelly air from from the bathroom vents.
Benefits of this all in one clothes washer and dryer with heat pump technology:
- All in one
- Saves space
- No need to transfer clothes from one machine to the other
- Uses 50% less energy
- Uses a regualr 110 outlet
- No vent to the outside
- Lowers one’s carbon footprint
Rebates
IRA Rebates – https://www.rewiringamerica.org/app/ira-calculator/information/heat-pump-clothes-dryer
Troubleshooting the GE Profile Combo
This is the manufacturer recommended lint brush for keeping the filter area clean.
It is important to keep the lint traps clean and the area round the blue condensers to they don’t get clogged up with lint over time which would lead to longer drying times and eventually a service call to clean out the lint.