Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to Canada@lemmy.caEnglish · 5 days agoHeat pumps continue to push fossil fuels out of Canadian homes440megatonnes.caexternal-linkmessage-square80linkfedilinkarrow-up1376arrow-down12
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minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-24 days ago but the electric “tops up” the pre-warmed air that the heat pump makes. Is the heater at the hot end? The reason they crap out is that they can no longer move and vapourise their coolant, so I’d expect it to be somewhere else, probably the cold end.
minus-squarekent_eh@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 days agoThe ones I’ve seen, the aux heat is in the duct airflow after the hear exchanger.
minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 days agoHmm. Weird. I’d guess, then, that someone after the original manufacturer is adding that.
Is the heater at the hot end? The reason they crap out is that they can no longer move and vapourise their coolant, so I’d expect it to be somewhere else, probably the cold end.
The ones I’ve seen, the aux heat is in the duct airflow after the hear exchanger.
Hmm. Weird. I’d guess, then, that someone after the original manufacturer is adding that.