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Posted by on December 3, 2007, 5:43 pm
>Uh, it was the HVAC company that set it up this way.
Yep. And they set it up correctly.
>...sorry man, heat pump
>is no longer putting out heat,
Yes it is. You don't know how to measure it properly to
understand it.
> it is a waste of electricity.
Nope.
> I know you
>want to think that all hvac techs know what they are doing...but it just
>aint so.
What you don't know is that I worked on heat pumps ( and lots
of other HVAC/R ) for 15 years, plus owning several, including one
now, and I know how they work, plus I hold 5 Statewide Masters
licenses in the trade, whereas you don't.
Now, if you want to argue the point - go argue it somewhere
else, because NONE I repeat NONE of the techs here ( and most of the
regulars are ), with 10 - 20 - + years background each, agree with
you. Maybe you know more about heat pumps than all of us combined.
Good for you. Go ahead and argue against 200 + years of combined
experience here working on heat pumps, see how far it gets you.
Then again, if you did, you wouldn't be asking your question,
would you ?
>
>>
>>>I bought a house that has a newly installed Trane air heat pump and an
>>>electric furnace emergency backup.
>>>
>>>As far as I'm concerned I don't want the HVAC company that installed it to
>>>look at it as they want to charge me for an incompetent setup.
>>>
>>>The way its set up is the heat pump runs whenever the stat is calling for
>>>heat...even down below temps in the teens and colder when the heat pump is
>>>obviously useless..
>>
>> Wrong.
>>
>>>.it still runs along with the electric furnace. This is
>>>a horrible waste of electricity and I figure is costing me about 30% more
>>>on
>>>my electric bill when the outside temp is that cold.
>>
>> You figure wrong.
>>
>>>
>>>Anyone know of a thermostat that I can install that is inexpensive as
>>>possible that will lock the heat pump out when the electric furnace kicks
>>>on? Or one that I can install an outside sensor and the heat pump kicks
>>>off
>>>at a certain temp and tells the backup to run?
>>
>> Ask your HVAC company.
>>
>>>
>>>Thanks
>>>
>>
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