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Re:These states are basically begging you to get a heat pump by adastra22 on Friday February 09, 2024 @10:21AM (#39315647)
Heat pumps are still more efficient, but you’d need damn good insulation (or a really big heat pump) in super cold weather. Furnaces scale-up pretty well on the other hand.

If your locale gets life threateningly cold though, I’d feel more comfortable with a furnace because of the fewer moving parts. Burn gas, get heat, dead simple.

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Re:These states are basically begging you to get a heat pump by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF on Friday February 09, 2024 @10:38AM (#39315855)
Funny enough in the short term I've lived in my house, I already had a winter where the furnace quit.

It's a high-efficiency one with a control board (Nobody can convince me FCS isn't Fire Control System) and a separate draft motor.

One of the vacuum sensors went out and the furnace couldn't prove it was safe to run, so it would turn on the draft motor, suspect a clog, and then shut it back off.

An easy fix but not as simple as lighting a Bunsen burner. And I haven't seen the electrical cord for it, I'm not sure how I would hook it to a generator if I lost power. The water heater oddly enough is battery-powered, so I guess I could just fill the tub with hot water.

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