We love our heat pump. It works great most of the time. It is so economical and we were promised low bills by the electric company when we reluctantly installed one in the new house years ago.
It proved to be a good promise. They did say, however, that heat pumps are not good in extremely cold weather. Look where the temp gage is today!!! We hardly ever see that needle so close to a zero!
Frightful. We run around asking how people can stand cold weather like this ALL the time.
Another thing they pointed out is that a heat pump has the outside compressor part running all year long whereas the gas heat does not. Well, it doesn't run when it goes to the emergency heat which is when the little green light comes on! Little green light means Emergency Heat is on.....higher bills.
So now if we notice the little blue green light on the thermostat we know it is emergency heat. It's too cold for the heat pump to be effective. The bill is going to be high!
Brrrrrrrr.....It's cold in Arkansas. And if any of you Northern people read this.....yes, we're wimps!
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