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Ah, but you shouldn't be using a plain resistive heater in most circumstances. Heat pumps are much more efficient.

• hollerith 3y ago
  I use a resistive heater. A heat pump would be about 1000 times noisier, and I live in an apartment, so I couldn't put the heat pump where I don't have to hear it.
  • Faaak 3y ago
    No longer true since at least 5+ years. New heat pumps are very _very_ silent
    • hollerith 3y ago
      Hate to be rude, but I doubt that anything with a compressor can be silent. All heat pumps have compressors, right? I've been around dozens of air conditioners, every one quite noisy compared to a resistive heater. Are heat pumps quieter than air conditioners?
      • syndicatedjelly 3y ago
        I have both a heat pump and resistive heating in my house. The compressor goes outside the house so you never hear it (and it's not particularly loud, just sounds like a quiet powerful fan). The indoor split units, as they're called, just blow air over the coils. The fans are very quiet, quieter than a typical standing fan or an A/C vent blowing air. Resistive heating is usually much quieter, however it can make annoying ticking sounds as the metal expands against the wall, or an annoying electrical buzz as the power is cycled on and off, multiple times a minute. This happens even if they're installed perfectly, houses and walls move over time.
  • hebrox 3y ago
    Just remember that an A/C is also a heat pump. Lots of apartments around the world with A/C.