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Posted by Bubba on December 14, 2007, 5:45 pm
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>I have a new dual fuel heating system in my house (replaced my old
>heatpump) and I need some help programming the thermostat. The system is
>an air heat pump with and oil furnace backup.
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>The (Honeywell VisionPro) thermostat has an external temperature sensor.
>I can set the thermostat to turn off the compressor and use just oil at
>some cutover temperature (when it is too cold for the air heat pump to
>compete with oil).
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>What temperature would you recomend?
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>I asked the installers and (as if in a comedy show) they gave their
>answers simultaneously and they were 20 degrees apart. (seems like a wide
>window)
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>The heat pumps is a brand new 4-ton Bryant Preferred Series air heat pump
>(up to 15 SEER / 8.5 HSPF) . The slightly older hot air furnace is a
>ThermoPride oil furnace in good shape. (81.6 AFUE).
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>Thanks in advance for your advice.
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Oil is expensive. Set it to its lowest...15.
Bubba
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