Data show that shipments of new heat pumps have almost overtaken fossil-fueled furnaces. Getting households to switch to ...
  • CanadaPlus
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    8 months ago

    but the electric “tops up” the pre-warmed air that the heat pump makes.

    Is the heater at the hot end? The reason they crap out is that they can no longer move and vapourise their coolant, so I’d expect it to be somewhere else, probably the cold end.

    • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      8 months ago

      The ones I’ve seen, the aux heat is in the duct airflow after the hear exchanger.

      • CanadaPlus
        1·
        8 months ago

        Hmm. Weird. I’d guess, then, that someone after the original manufacturer is adding that.