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Reversomatic HRV/ERVs

user-6504396 | Posted in Energy Efficiency and Durability on

Does anyone have any experience with Reversomatic HRV’s or ERV’s?  They claim to have the only automatic balancing units which will maintain a neutral pressure as conditions change.  They have published sound data that ranges from 1.4 to 2.2 sones at 30L/S at 50Pa.  (32-39dB).  Their sensible recovery efficiencies are in the low 70’s and apparent sensible effectiveness in the 80’s.

http://www.reversomatic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/RERV-S200-201712.pdf

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  1. jberks | | #1

    Don't know about these particular units. But I have a couple RERV-80's. They are their most basic erv units. I like them because they're the smallest ERV's I could find (other than through wall units), and on their circuit board they have rheostats so you can manually balance the fans. They work and are pretty quiet.

  2. user-6504396 | | #2

    Jamie,

    Thanks for the reply.
    It looks like the auto-balancing is available on the deluxe units
    http://www.reversomatic.com/product-category/hrv-erv/deluxe-series-hrv-erv/

    This one looks to be the best performing from a energy transfer standpoint.
    http://www.reversomatic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/RHRV-D100P.pdf

    I guess though that the unit would only be capable of balancing to a certain, limited point. For instance if it's maximum flow rate is 100 cfm then it couldn't compensate for a 400 cfm range exhaust fan or even a 100 cfm bathroom fan.

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