The problem with most high-end heat pumps

Let me be honest about how I see the market. Most of our competition installs either basic single-stage heat pumps, or they go the other direction and sell some crazy complicated inverter communicating system that most companies cannot install correctly.

And here is the trap with those super high-end systems. If you spend a fortune on something so complicated the installing company can barely set it up, and then you fight problems with it for the entire life of the equipment, you are going to have a miserable experience. Even if it was slightly more energy efficient on paper, the whole thing leaves a bad taste in your mouth. That is a net negative for the customer, no matter what the brochure says.

What convinced us on Bosch

Bosch killed the rest of the industry, plain and simple. They designed a system that hits every mark that actually matters to a homeowner:

• Space saving. It is quiet and about a quarter of the size of a comparable Trane 5 ton high-efficiency unit.
• Simple to install right. It runs on 24V control wiring, so most contractors already understand how to wire it. No exotic communicating setup to botch.
• Energy efficient with real capacity. You get efficiency without giving up the power to heat the home.
• Reliable, with great support. The reliability and customer support have been fantastic, and that matters more than any spec sheet.

The pressure transducer is the secret

Here is the piece of technology that sets it apart. Bosch uses a pressure transducer to ramp the compressor up and down based on the internal pressures of the system. That sounds technical, so here is why you should care.

Because of how it reads and responds to those pressures, the unit will never freeze up a coil. And because it will never freeze up the coil, we can oversize it. That is the move that lets us put more capacity into your home for those brutal Pittsburgh nights, which no other manufacturer can do in quite this way. If you want to understand why oversizing capacity matters in our winters, we cover it in our cold-climate heat pump page.

Big systems nobody wants in their yard

I am not here to beat up on Trane in particular. They have boasted for years about their efficiency and their spine fin coils. But when you look at their 5 ton high-efficiency unit, it is as big as the damn house. These manufacturers claim all this advanced technology, and then the unit is still enormous.

Customers do not want a unit the size of their shed sitting next to the patio cooling their home. They want it to basically disappear. They want it quiet. They want it efficient, with high capacity, and easy to install. Bosch took the marketplace by storm because it gives all of that at once, and nobody else has anything close. For the full rundown on matching a heat pump to your home, see how to pick a heat pump.

We put our own money where our mouth is

The strongest endorsement I can give you is this. Every owner in our company runs a Bosch system in their own home, and so do a lot of our employees. We are not selling you something we would not live with ourselves. That is the test I hold every product to.