If you are wondering about performance details and costs we've experienced with a Mr Cool Universal heat pump, then be sure to check out our Mr Cool HVAC playlist. ruclips.net/p/PLExVGissIl-GdKsUBhF3c0fQ6E_o6oOaZ We have tried to answer as many questions as we could imagine in the 17+ videos in this playlist - hopefully they help you! The price of the unit we bought is around $3800 ( as of June 2024) on Amazon : 2 to 3 Ton 18 SEER Variable Speed MrCool Universal Central Heat Pump Split System - Upflow/Horizontal with Quick Connect Lineset - 15 Feet amzn.to/3WE8SfI Thats our affiliate link. Thx in advance for your support if you use it - it helps keep our channel going! We do appreciate it!
I have a Mr cool 4 ton. I just got my first bill headed into the cold season here in Ohio and it was $560! Not saving any money here. Also when it dips below 25° I lose heat and it just blows cool air. Not sure what I am doing wrong!
Hey @thelouiebrand, Yikes. We are in Indiana - so I’d bet we have fairly similar weather. We have a 3 ton. I have an energy monitor and can see that my air handler and condenser combined use on the worst DAY this winter so far used 35.5 kWh … so something is vastly different between our 2 set-ups. Is your condenser running 24/7. My worst 60 min electricity usage was late November when the high temps for the day was in the teens. That was 5 kWh . That was probably running non-stop for that hour. Multiply that by 24hrs ( if it was non-stop running for the whole day ) = 120 kWh for a day…. It should NOT need to run non-stop … Did you set this up? How was your summer useage? What were your previous bills and previous system ( electric or gas)
My mr cool universal just recently stopped heating and instead is blowing cool air, going on the 3rd winter with it and no problems until now. Any suggestions?
Hey trout…, Had that happen once. The fan blades (outside unit / condenser) froze to the housing surround from a slight drip of water from snow melt from the top of the unit. I melted the ice and all was fine. If you are familiar, opening the front side panel of the condenser where the refrigerant lines enter will reveal green light numerics that may form a code to help diagnose the issue. Hope that helps.
I was thinking about exhausting the heat created from behind the refrigerator to a hybrid water heater. Idk if it would be worth it though, ducted to a small computer fan directly onto the inlet of the water heater. Very much a novice on this subject.
Hey Jamie, Never tried exactly that. But you might be able to do a math equation to see if it’s worth it at all. Imagine that the fridge is 100% efficient ( it’s not, but just for the sake of argument ) My fridge uses about 1000 watts of energy per day. So you need to figure out how many degrees will 40 gallons of water rise if you applied 1000 watts of energy to it for 1 hr. From that you subtract the energy your computer fan uses (# of watts x 24 hrs = kWh /day) . The answer would be based on 100% of electric energy is captured and put into water heater. ( which isn’t possible ) But the answer will give you a perfect world of what max benefit you could get. Off the cuff, I’m guessing it won’t be enough to make a big difference. If you find out different - be sure and let everyone know! Thx for watching!
This is funny. It's incredible how much the bitcoin miner uses. While it's nice that it helps heat the home that heat is clearly expensive. On that note, how much Bitcoin does the miner produce? Do you run the miner in the summer? If you do run it in the summer it would seem that finding a way to have it exhaust the heat outside would be worth it given how much heat it produces.
Hey bobs…, The miner requires 2800 watts running 24/7. It produces about the same amount of bitcoin as it uses in energy (@ .11 cents/kWh) when bitcoin is at 30,000. Bitcoin is a long term play - much like buying a stock or mutual fund. You hope it goes up in the long run - that’s how you make money. More than just that - bitcoin serves as a store of value, a way to fight inflation ( much like owning land or dwellings ), and functions as a permissionless decentralized and fair way to make nearly instantaneous transactions peer to peer. I do run the miner in summer and dump the heat outside when not needing the extra heat. Thx for watching!
How much does it actually reduce your bill? I mean yeah you showed what it cost to run the miner and your heat but if you are spending all that money to mine, how much do you actually receive?
Hey Michael, It all depends because the price changes every second. It also depends on electricity cost. And it depends on your machine speed and efficiency. Plus other factors…. The purpose of the video just shows some savings I recouped. But just looking at mining, it costs me more to mine than the amount of bitcoin I get from mining ( operating at a loss). But generally speaking, if I think that bitcoin in the future will be worth multiples of the price it is today, then I can mine at a loss ( spend $2 to get $1 of bitcoin today) risking that some time in the future that $1 of original bitcoin will be worth $3. ). Hope that makes sense.
Hey Robbie, True - you would NOT buy a miner to only heat your house. BUT, if you purchased the miner to mine BTC anyway, then it’s a no brainer to use the waste heat to supplement your hvac efforts and thereby save a significant sum of money by keeping your furnace or heat pump from running. Thx for watching.
What is that Mr. Cooler? I guess I have to watch your other video to understand it. Sorry I am not knowledgeable with this stuff. But I appreciate your posting.
The Mr. Cool is a heat pump. Maybe I assumed too much in this video based on our other videos. The short of it is - we installed the MrCool heat pump a couple years ago to replace an old ac unit and because of its efficiency, the MrCool really cut our summer cooling cost. But heat pumps are less efficient in winter. So to lessen our winter heat costs, ( we are always searching for savings on our channel) this year we attached the mining computer to our hvac system to dump the waste heat from the computer into the house ducting and make use of that heat so the heat pump had to run less. In the end , it worked well reducing the amount of time the heat pump needed to run. We saved over $500 compared to last winters heating bill. Hope that makes sense. Thanks for the comment!
@@luciadagdagan6990e uses his AC less thanks to transferring a Bitcoin machine’s heat out the ventilator system all over the house. Which in turn has reduce his actual bill by a bit as he show at the end.
If you are wondering about performance details and costs we've experienced with a Mr Cool Universal heat pump, then be sure to check out our Mr Cool HVAC playlist.
ruclips.net/p/PLExVGissIl-GdKsUBhF3c0fQ6E_o6oOaZ
We have tried to answer as many questions as we could imagine in the 17+ videos in this playlist - hopefully they help you!
The price of the unit we bought is around $3800 ( as of June 2024) on Amazon :
2 to 3 Ton 18 SEER Variable Speed MrCool Universal Central Heat Pump Split System - Upflow/Horizontal with Quick Connect Lineset - 15 Feet
amzn.to/3WE8SfI
Thats our affiliate link. Thx in advance for your support if you use it - it helps keep our channel going! We do appreciate it!
I have a Mr cool 4 ton. I just got my first bill headed into the cold season here in Ohio and it was $560! Not saving any money here. Also when it dips below 25° I lose heat and it just blows cool air. Not sure what I am doing wrong!
Hey @thelouiebrand,
Yikes. We are in Indiana - so I’d bet we have fairly similar weather. We have a 3 ton. I have an energy monitor and can see that my air handler and condenser combined use on the worst DAY this winter so far used 35.5 kWh … so something is vastly different between our 2 set-ups.
Is your condenser running 24/7.
My worst 60 min electricity usage was late November when the high temps for the day was in the teens. That was 5 kWh . That was probably running non-stop for that hour.
Multiply that by 24hrs ( if it was non-stop running for the whole day ) = 120 kWh for a day….
It should NOT need to run non-stop …
Did you set this up? How was your summer useage? What were your previous bills and previous system ( electric or gas)
My mr cool universal just recently stopped heating and instead is blowing cool air, going on the 3rd winter with it and no problems until now. Any suggestions?
Hey trout…,
Had that happen once. The fan blades (outside unit / condenser) froze to the housing surround from a slight drip of water from snow melt from the top of the unit.
I melted the ice and all was fine.
If you are familiar, opening the front side panel of the condenser where the refrigerant lines enter will reveal green light numerics that may form a code to help diagnose the issue.
Hope that helps.
I was thinking about exhausting the heat created from behind the refrigerator to a hybrid water heater. Idk if it would be worth it though, ducted to a small computer fan directly onto the inlet of the water heater. Very much a novice on this subject.
Hey Jamie,
Never tried exactly that. But you might be able to do a math equation to see if it’s worth it at all.
Imagine that the fridge is 100% efficient ( it’s not, but just for the sake of argument )
My fridge uses about 1000 watts of energy per day.
So you need to figure out how many degrees will 40 gallons of water rise if you applied 1000 watts of energy to it for 1 hr.
From that you subtract the energy your computer fan uses (# of watts x 24 hrs = kWh /day) .
The answer would be based on 100% of electric energy is captured and put into water heater. ( which isn’t possible )
But the answer will give you a perfect world of what max benefit you could get.
Off the cuff, I’m guessing it won’t be enough to make a big difference.
If you find out different - be sure and let everyone know!
Thx for watching!
You would need a heat exchanger
Would the next step be solar and batteries?
This is funny. It's incredible how much the bitcoin miner uses. While it's nice that it helps heat the home that heat is clearly expensive. On that note, how much Bitcoin does the miner produce? Do you run the miner in the summer? If you do run it in the summer it would seem that finding a way to have it exhaust the heat outside would be worth it given how much heat it produces.
Hey bobs…,
The miner requires 2800 watts running 24/7.
It produces about the same amount of bitcoin as it uses in energy (@ .11 cents/kWh) when bitcoin is at 30,000.
Bitcoin is a long term play - much like buying a stock or mutual fund. You hope it goes up in the long run - that’s how you make money.
More than just that - bitcoin serves as a store of value, a way to fight inflation ( much like owning land or dwellings ), and functions as a permissionless decentralized and fair way to make nearly instantaneous transactions peer to peer.
I do run the miner in summer and dump the heat outside when not needing the extra heat.
Thx for watching!
How much does it actually reduce your bill? I mean yeah you showed what it cost to run the miner and your heat but if you are spending all that money to mine, how much do you actually receive?
Hey Michael,
It all depends because the price changes every second. It also depends on electricity cost. And it depends on your machine speed and efficiency. Plus other factors….
The purpose of the video just shows some savings I recouped.
But just looking at mining, it costs me more to mine than the amount of bitcoin I get from mining ( operating at a loss).
But generally speaking, if I think that bitcoin in the future will be worth multiples of the price it is today, then I can mine at a loss ( spend $2 to get $1 of bitcoin today) risking that some time in the future that $1 of original bitcoin will be worth $3. ).
Hope that makes sense.
Yeah but it breaks down fast. Mine broke three times in less than a year
That bitcoin miner would be debatable for cost of operation for how much you “save”
Hey Robbie,
True - you would NOT buy a miner to only heat your house.
BUT, if you purchased the miner to mine BTC anyway, then it’s a no brainer to use the waste heat to supplement your hvac efforts and thereby save a significant sum of money by keeping your furnace or heat pump from running.
Thx for watching.
I’m sorry but you lost me! I did not understand a thing in your deliberation. Please make it simple!
Hey luc…,
So where did I lose you?
What is that Mr. Cooler? I guess I have to watch your other video to understand it. Sorry I am not knowledgeable with this stuff. But I appreciate your posting.
The Mr. Cool is a heat pump. Maybe I assumed too much in this video based on our other videos.
The short of it is - we installed the MrCool heat pump a couple years ago to replace an old ac unit and because of its efficiency, the MrCool really cut our summer cooling cost. But heat pumps are less efficient in winter.
So to lessen our winter heat costs, ( we are always searching for savings on our channel) this year we attached the mining computer to our hvac system to dump the waste heat from the computer into the house ducting and make use of that heat so the heat pump had to run less.
In the end , it worked well reducing the amount of time the heat pump needed to run. We saved over $500 compared to last winters heating bill.
Hope that makes sense.
Thanks for the comment!
@@luciadagdagan6990e uses his AC less thanks to transferring a Bitcoin machine’s heat out the ventilator system all over the house. Which in turn has reduce his actual bill by a bit as he show at the end.
TLDR: Use the heat generated by a BTC miner and send it via the vents. Basically get income from the BTC miner and “discount” from actual bill.