Gas and Oil Home Heating Furnaces - electric heat pump
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firstshift
01-04-03, 07:07 AM
Folks:
Bought this house in July 02. All electric, incl. Trane XE 1000 Heat Pump. Had a tech over in Nov since unit felt as though cold air was coming out of ceiling vents. He checked out system (air handler is in attic) and added a lb of Freon to the pump outside. He said it might have a slow leak or it could just have been low (?). He said the reason that we felt cool air coming from vents is because the setting of T-stat (68) and the outside air (about 60) were fairly close, so that not much heat was required to bring house up to desired temperature.
Now it is of course colder here and about everywhere (in this hemisphere), and unit still feels like cool air coming from vents. I will tell you that this is first time I have been in electric heat vs gas, so perhaps I need adjusting?
Thanks,
Firstshift
(30 more years and it's mine.....)
Bought this house in July 02. All electric, incl. Trane XE 1000 Heat Pump. Had a tech over in Nov since unit felt as though cold air was coming out of ceiling vents. He checked out system (air handler is in attic) and added a lb of Freon to the pump outside. He said it might have a slow leak or it could just have been low (?). He said the reason that we felt cool air coming from vents is because the setting of T-stat (68) and the outside air (about 60) were fairly close, so that not much heat was required to bring house up to desired temperature.
Now it is of course colder here and about everywhere (in this hemisphere), and unit still feels like cool air coming from vents. I will tell you that this is first time I have been in electric heat vs gas, so perhaps I need adjusting?
Thanks,
Firstshift
(30 more years and it's mine.....)
cuffs054
01-04-03, 07:33 AM
I'm afraid it's probably you. Heating w/ a heatpump does take getting used to particularly if you have had fossil fuel heat before. The difference in the temp of the delivered air is large between hp and gas/oil. You should find that the hp doesn't cause the house to get as dry and usually hp are cleaner to run. The only time you should feel really warm/hot air out of the vents is if and when aux heat kicks in.
bigjohn
01-04-03, 08:05 AM
I agree, it's an adjustment. When you had gas heat heat, you probably got used to the nice, hot, reassuring air flowng from the registers. It seems confusing, with the heat pump, you'll get the quantity of heat you need but at a lower supply air temperature. You see this a lot in FLA. Folks retire from cold country, and their new place has a heat pump or electric furnace which they just can't get used to. I've seen situations where an electric furnace was replaced with a gas or oil furnace for that reason. BTW- that Trane is one of the best heat pumps on the market. Unfortunately, inexperienced techs feel they have to do something, so they put in refrigerant without knowing for sure that is the problem. You may want to call a Trane dealer and have it checked to be on the safe side.