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Posted by on January 30, 2008, 9:14 pm
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> > My daughter is complaining about high heat bills. i bet the elect
> > resistence elect coil is on a lot. how do i tell when the coil comes
> > on? and how do you turn it off? what turns it on? when temp is
> > below 32? if compressor is ok, why would coil come on? she had the
> > system checked and they said ok. wonder if they checked out operation
> > of coils. thanks for any insight. bill in Maryland
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> One big thing to watch for with a heat pump is turning it up and down. Does
> she change the temperature or just sets it at one place and leaves it there.
> Most of the time the heat strips will come on if you go up about 3 or 4
> degrees at one time.
Yes! That is a major drawback in some circumstances.
I used to have all-electric. The thermostat fortunately did have a
light to indicate when the electric backup was on. I'd turn the heat
down quite a ways when I was gone. Upon return, I'd turn it up just a
few degrees at a time, keeping the electric backup from coming on. I
eventually got around that by putting a toggle switch on the
thermostat. The backup would only come on when I wanted to let it; I
could set the heat to warm up however far I wanted without worrying
about the electric backup.
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