With the cold weather I was hoping to hear of some experiences people have had with their heat pumps.

What kind of backup heat do you have? Are you using it? Is there some temperature where you just stop using the heat pump, or are you even consciously thinking about it?

Thanks!

  • zaphod@lemmy.caEnglish
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    11 months ago

    This is outdated. Modern heat pumps are good down to -15 or even -20 and new models are getting more and more efficient every day.

    That’s not to say folks in Alberta shouldn’t maintain a backup furnace of some kind, but today a heat pump should be good for heating and cooling 300+ days a year.

    Also:

    Supposedly it does both of these more economically than running an AC and furnace

    There’s nothing “supposed” about it. It’s basic physics: moving heat around is far more energy efficient than heating something up directly.