I'm in sunny humid Florida and have had great luck with air source heat pump water heaters, particularly the GE models.

80+% of water heaters here are in garages, so HPWH work well.

Now I'm faced with a client with a completely detached garage, and their water heater is in a big master walk in closet. I don't dare go with a GE HPWH owing to concern that the Master WIC would get mighty chilly immediately after bathing, particularly during cooler weather.

I have read that the Air Generate units can have their exhaust ducted, which would allow a WIC install.

Does anyone have any firsthand or solid hearsay experience with AirGenerate.

Do they work well?
Any early failures
noise?