Hey Bob, that is interesting. Just seems to me that if you have both the compressor and a 5Kww heater strip running and possibly the compressor and a total of 15Kw heater strips running, it would cost some real dollars. I'm sure there is a calculation and all that which would explain things more clearly. grin
Thanks, On Mar 3, 2009, at 8:11 AM, chiliblindman wrote: > Scott, it will not save you any money at all to switch the heat pump > off. At 10 degrees your heat pump might be only using one forth the > power it does at full load. Normally a heat pump in heating mode > only uses half the power or less that it does in cooling mode. That > is one of the reasons the efficiency ratings are calculated the way > they are. > ................bob > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
