Derek Cole and William Skipper explain how heat pumps work in freezing temperatures and why you shouldn't switch to electric heat strips. They cover defrost cycles and how the system keeps running efficiently even when it's cold outside.
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Hey, this is Derek Cole on with William Skipper and welcome to the Comfort experts. And today we're talking about heat pumps. In the cold weather. We kind of hit it a few times with steam in different aspects. But the latest we've been seeing a lot of questions about are freezing temperatures in your heat pump? So, William, should I turn my heat pump off when it's 32 degrees outside?
No. That is a misconception that a lot of people have is they hear people talk about heat pumps no good below freezing. Well, a heat pump still will produce heat below freezing, just not the capacity that it normally would above freezing. So the worst thing on a light bill is your electric heat strips. If you can prolong or cut back the time that you use your heat strips, why wouldn't you, if you got a source? Even though I might have a 3 ton unit and I'm below 30 degrees outside or 20 degrees and I'm putting out half of what it normally would because of the temperatures, why would I not want to limit my heat strips coming on? But a heat pump will produce heat on those cold days. So stay away from that fairytale of once it gets below freezing, I'm gonna turn my merch, the heat on and that's all I'm gonna run. Let that heat pump run, let it, let it cycle those heat strips on when needed and let's save a little bit on your utilities. Yeah.
And it's gonna, I mean, the main thing is gonna happen a lot more. It's gonna go through a defrost cycle. Correct. More than if it was 45 degrees outside. And that's completely normal. I mean, you shouldn't worry about the heat pump and is it working too hard? You know, it's a heat pump. It's equipment, it's made to work.
That's right.
So there's nothing abnormal about it going into defrost and the heat strip is coming on. There's, it's completely fine. You're gonna be fine. So, yeah, like he said, do not turn off the heat pump just because it's 30 degrees outside.
That's right.
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