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Re:No, you can’t save £30 per year by switching off your “st... by BizarroLand on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @01:59PM (#31183485)
My heat pump is a Trane heat pump from 2018 and it goes into emergency heat mode when the temps are below 36, which is off and on for most of the winter. I wonder if I should have it serviced to make sure it's working correctly.
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Re:No, you can’t save £30 per year by switching off your “st... by bcrosby95 on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @02:43PM (#31184074)
It's partially a function of your heating demands. My sister's emergency heat mode would run all the time in her town house. But she installed a giant insulating curtain over one of her leaky sliders and now it almost never needs to run.
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Re:No, you can’t save £30 per year by switching off your “st... by BizarroLand on Friday April 29, 2022 @01:25PM (#31208118)
That seems more like she improved her insulation, decreasing her heating needs rather than addressing the temperature cutoff for a heat pump.

I still like the heat pump because in the summer my power bill for cooling a 2600 sq ft home is about $50/month, and in the winter I do have a wood burning stove that I can run to heat the house when the temps are below 36. That and recirc mode on the fan unit can keep my power bills to a minimum.

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