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Heat pump is essentially useless below 40 degrees. Lock out those heat strips or look forward to a huge electric bill.
ReplyDelete7:27 Then what do you use for heat.... Next time it snows try this with your heat pump. Before it starts to snow turn it on to emergency heat, and put a cover on top.
ReplyDeleteWhen it stops snowing, take off the cover, turn off the emergency heat. Turn it on to normal operation. You wont have it all iced up and the snow piled up around it.
It will be nice and clean and ready to use. So it cost me a couple of extra bucks, but I'm not out in the cold trying to defrost it.
Try it you'll be pleasantly surprised.
7:57 PM ok stupid question. If you cover it and block the air flow how are you getting heat?
ReplyDelete8:16PM When you turn on the emergency heat strips, you are only recirculating inside air. Therefore, the outside compressor and fan does not operate.
ReplyDelete8:57PM I only use the heat strips when I go on vacation and they are predicting snow/ice. The cover is a great idea.
Answer to 7:57 When you turn it to emergency heat the outside unit does not run, only the air exchanger in the house operates. Turn it on emergency heat and watch the out side unit when the air circulates inside your house. The outside unit won't be running
ReplyDelete8:16 when you turn the thermostat to emergency heat the outside unit doesn't turn on. Only the heat strips in the air handler (which is the inside unit) operate.
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