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Actually, come to think of it - it might just be that it's pretty cold in my garage right now, ~ 40F: maybe it just isn't getting much help from the heat pump a
by isbjorn16 8y ago
Actually, come to think of it - it might just be that it's pretty cold in my garage right now, ~ 40F: maybe it just isn't getting much help from the heat pump and the conventional electric heater isn't doing a great job on its own?
I'll have to pay attention into summer when it's like 95 in my garage. Maybe I can presume raging hot showers -for days- at that point :D
- cmurphycode 8y agoThat's definitely part of it. I'm actually surprised it's working in heat pump mode at all. We have a hybrid and it will run pure-resistive if the ambient temperature is below 50. Now, it's in our basement, so even in the winter that's a reasonable cut-off - not sure if you got a specific model for being "outside". Speaking of which, does your model not have a resistive backup? Ours has several modes: - only use heat pump, unless not safe to do so (ambient too cold) - use heat pump normally but fall back to resistive to recover - use resistive only We only have 2 people in the house so we are able to leave it on the first mode, but in the second mode it would, presumably, be the same performance as our old resistive-only heater.
- isbjorn16 8y agoSolid questions - I'm going to take a peek at it tonight. I honestly haven't given it a lot of thought, but literally just this morning my wife went off on a rant about it for a good 15 minutes. It suddenly bubbled up my priority queue pretty quick - and then out of nowhere, this thread on heat pumps and water heaters! Crazy coincidences sometimes.