We had great heat pumps in Montana already. And if it gets insanely (-38f) cold, there’s a resistive fallback mode. But I’d wager most places aren’t gonna get to 38 below.
Heat pumps don’t work well (even the new ones coming from this article are only good to 15f) anywhere near that cold. Most are only good to about 25f. Anywhere they’re installed that drops below freezing all have a backup heat system, whether or not it’s a gas backup, or resistive electric backup.
Some large commercial heat pumps will got down to like 0 degrees F, but none of the residential ones do.
We had great heat pumps in Montana already. And if it gets insanely (-38f) cold, there’s a resistive fallback mode. But I’d wager most places aren’t gonna get to 38 below.
Not for much longer, at least.
I’m in PA and it doesn’t get nearly as cold here, of course. We got mini splits in 2022 that can do -33f, I think. No resistive backup for us.
Mini splits are so, so nice.
Heat pumps don’t work well (even the new ones coming from this article are only good to 15f) anywhere near that cold. Most are only good to about 25f. Anywhere they’re installed that drops below freezing all have a backup heat system, whether or not it’s a gas backup, or resistive electric backup.
Some large commercial heat pumps will got down to like 0 degrees F, but none of the residential ones do.
I am looking out my window at a heat pump in my back yard which is effective down to -15F. Your info is I think about 10 years out of date.
They’re literally all over the Alps and you’ve been lied to
Oh yeah? Link me one single residential heat pump from anywhere that works sub 0F.
Sorry I don’t speak medieval, could you translate the temperature from 16th to 21st century?
I think you’re forgetting ground source heat pumps. They’ll work fine at -40 because they don’t rely on air temperature.
Those are different and that’s cheating. It’s not what this article is referencing or talking about.