Derek Cole explains how heat pumps extract heat from outside air and why they need electric backup heat when temperatures drop below around 40°F or during defrost cycles. Those cycles can trigger noise and steam as the system briefly switches to cooling mode to melt frost buildup.
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Foreign. I'm Derek Cole, host of the Derek Cole Podcast and we believe in taking the time to explain how things work for your air at home or your business. And we also believe you deserve clean air in that home. And that is why we founded the Healthy Home Challenge. It's a five day online video series with daily emails, worksheets and even quick action steps you can take to protect you, your family and your co workers. If you haven't joined us yet, you can sign up. It's free to free five day access. You can go to Simmons One Hour Comm. You'll see a link to learn more about indoor air. You've probably known for a while that you need better indoor air at home or at work. After all, we spend 90% of our time indoors these days. Your breakthrough awaits at Simmons One Hour Comm. Now let's get into today's episode. Please listen closely and maybe even take some notes so you can remember these insights of home comfort and energy savings. And share this episode with three of your friends. Because we all need to share better ways to be more comfortable at home. Be sure to tag me or DM me on Instagram Derek Mcole so I can say hi. Thanks again for listening. And let's begin. If you have a heat pump, your backup heat will come on. I know sometimes that kind of freaks some, some folks out when the backup heat is on because it's, you know, it's straight electricity is running up your bill. But really the backup heat serves two purposes. Mainly is to supplement the heat pump. So in this area, when in this area, if you have a heat pump when it gets below 40 degrees, it really starts to need help reaching the set point in your house. So if you got it on 72, it needs help getting there because it's so cool outside, so cold that you need something to add to it. That's why you have the backup heat, the strip heaters, for that reason. The other main reason you have the bag of heat is because of a defrost cycle. So what happens when you have a heat pump and it's in heating mode? It's actually extracting the heat from outside. So when that happens, frost builds up on the coals. So at some point it needs to get rid of that frost. So what happens is it actually reverses the flow of refrigerant and turns into AC mode. So in AC mode, you're taking the heat outside from the house outside. So when that happens, it's going to melt off that frost. So your backup heat comes on because you know you don't want to be cold inside. So when that happens, your backup heat will come on as well. And what's really, what's, what's really strange is it makes a very loud noise when it switches over to the defrost cycle. So usually you hear the loud noise, you look outside, you see your heat pump, steam's coming out from it, so you think something's wrong when it may be the defrost cycle. So I just been want you to freak out. It is going to happen with these, you know, cooler, cooler days, cold mornings, cold nights, the steam will happen from the heat pump, the backup heat, your secondary heat will come on to supplement all that. Okay, I hope you enjoyed this episode of the Derek Cole Podcast. Tell some people about this episode. It's on each of us really to spread the better ways to be healthier and more comfortable in our homes and workspaces basis. I'm asking you to be the dealer of positive and life changing messages in your circle of influence. Take a screenshot right now and share the screenshot and the link to this episode with three of your friends today. Share on social Media Use the hashtag Healthy Home. That's Healthy Home. We are always giving away shout outs prizes to our community. If you would like to help me personally then please rate and review on Apple podcast. Give it some stars. Leave a review because that stuff actually does help and I read all the comments. So my last thought for today, please remember you deserve better air at home and greater comfort at home. Don't settle for being uncomfortable for heating air every single month. We are so thankful for having you here in our community and be sure to go deeper with us at simmons1hour.com.
