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Originally Posted by wingnut60
We have our first DRV with a heat pump--it doesn't do much a job coming out of the ceiling vents when hot air rises. We pretty much ignore it and use the fireplace and a space heater during the day, and space heater only during the night.
Have not noticed it cycling, just not doing much heating.
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We have the same unit as yours Joe, ours does pretty good at heating but to a degree. Once the temps drop below 40° they're not very effective. When ours starts the "humming" that's my signal to switch heat sources.
While in the U. P. of Michigan a couple of weeks ago we mainly ran the heat pumps, usually during the day when the temperatures were in the low to mid fifties. At night we would shut the het pumps down and turn on the fireplace. We had a couple of nights in the low thirties, definately NOT heat pump weather!
I like having/using the heat pumps, I guess YMMV.
Dan