MINI's?
of the thread:
IF APPLICABLE ----------
some fitting in where a mini may first be considered, one may but not really want an outdoor piece of equipment:
As MOST contractors are seeing, as many already have successfully applied:
Many geothermal-hp consoles with a single Energy-Star(tm) sized [performance contract guaranteed] loops outside, a ground loop large enough--- consoles have more and less to offer over mini's; horizontal closet units; 3-Sided corner- standing consoles 2- 5 compressor tons (size 6's) and more.
They also have HW heat recovery in small to large-instant on demand and operate 100% in cooling and some in heating modes- sharing BTUhs, then.
zoning the refrigerant inseries off of the fancoil HVAC section in a cabinet-ed GHP --- there is a sharing with the blower, reducing fan use to allow for Chilled and HW to zone- off the system to mini-like split fan-coil locations WITHOUT purchasing additional Water:water chiller/heater GHP's.
That feature works well in some comm apps WITHOUT Geo-T loops at all, allowing (horizontal too) "GHP" to just distribute heat-recovery to HW preheating while a space need cool/DeHum or reversing to pull heat from some space, then distribute heat for some other reason/ radiant high-mass and low, or Air distribution, etc.