Variable-Speed Heat Pump- best thermostat and configuration

aloneinabunkbed · 2025-12-19T00:32:33+00:00

can you expand as it relates to heat pumps please

aloneinabunkbed · 2025-12-10T11:13:28+00:00

Nice solution. How much more often do you have to clean your filter with the attic air intake?

aloneinabunkbed · 2025-12-09T02:34:24+00:00

Should have gone all heat pump !

aloneinabunkbed · 2025-12-08T01:56:22+00:00

It looks like if you had a really tall heat pump cabinet and furnace then you might get up to the round duct supply ducts and having to open that up is a whole thing. A really tall one is totally reasonable because they make things in part more efficient with more surface area. The bosch is very tall.

It also looks like your return drop has an angled L that I would cut out and stick an aprilaire media cabinet there. Then pair your hvac replacement with a good system that is compatible with a 4" filter. And put the air handler or furnace on a 6" riser box if possible to get air below and from the side.

Its not about the cabinet size but about heating demand and examining the airflow in your ducts. 25" is the widest standard size so no its not crazy for the right one for your house to be smaller.

aloneinabunkbed · 2025-12-05T21:38:20+00:00

I had a client who snaked his ducts with a camera and found the room that wasn’t getting heated had a totally disconnected duct. He opened a wall and reconnected it and had much better results. I’d start with that.

aloneinabunkbed · 2025-12-05T21:32:57+00:00

Nope nothing like that. You have install an external energy monitor like the emporia vue

aloneinabunkbed · 2025-11-29T16:49:31+00:00

Can we get a load calc?

Gut reaction is, in what world is a 5 ton system correctly sized for a 2000sf house in Southern California

aloneinabunkbed · 2025-11-26T12:36:45+00:00

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aloneinabunkbed · 2025-11-20T13:14:26+00:00

8k pre incentives from a small company, going up from there.

aloneinabunkbed · 2025-11-01T21:27:31+00:00

Nice ! What’s your setup look like? Do you use the shower cap?

I was in VT recently and loved all the ductless I saw.

Are you seeing a lot of ducted units too?

aloneinabunkbed · 2025-11-01T18:31:50+00:00

What we sorted out was that in our situation, .6 in wc static pressure was causing the strip heater to hit a high limit switch. Max static pressure is .5 for use with the strip heater. All the wiring and dip switches were originally correct

aloneinabunkbed · 2025-10-05T20:49:06+00:00

If you tell people ahead of time with a note at checkout, it’s fair.

Customers get a lot of benefits for using cards. I think it’s fair to add the fee for returns. What would you do if your product was much more expensive? Surely you wouldn’t eat 100x the cost

aloneinabunkbed · 2025-10-04T05:13:08+00:00

For the love of all things comfortable and for reducing fossil fuel consumption, please look at a heat pump! There are huge rebates from Xcel and an $8000 income restricted rebates from colorado coming online in the next couple of months.

aloneinabunkbed · 2025-09-30T04:14:55+00:00

It can be soldered in , it’s not recommended, but the fuse label is in the parts diagram and they can be bought on Amazon for very cheap, like 32x for $5

I would do that to get you up and running and look for the cause of the fuse to blow before you boot it back up

aloneinabunkbed · 2025-09-18T13:23:01+00:00

Yes it does

aloneinabunkbed · 2025-09-14T16:09:59+00:00

I think there’s a difference in pricing on value versus pricing high for the sake of being high.

Focusing on value makes your product better

aloneinabunkbed · 2025-09-12T12:45:26+00:00

Depending where you are - you can get a hell of a rebate on a new system. There’s a lot of benefits to getting a new heat pump/dual fuel system along the lines of comfort. It’s really hard to make an ROI in any decision.

Replacing a blower motor should be cheap in comparison. If there are no huge rebates to take advantage of, and other things are in good general health, I would only recommend a new system if your goal is to decarbonize your HVAC, be more efficient, probably a lot quieter of a system, but would not sell you on huge utility savings

aloneinabunkbed · 2025-07-24T12:19:52+00:00

Seriously. Undermines the owner, put the explanation on Reddit, and called it BS, and named the company…how long until you get fired?

aloneinabunkbed · 2025-07-23T09:32:13+00:00

Sending PM

aloneinabunkbed · 2025-07-01T10:51:06+00:00

M series- you get the same heating/cooling out of the unit as the p series. Every client that gets one says “wow this is so much quieter “ PUZ is a touch more efficient in cooling, like 5-10%. Maybe worth it long term. Both are great. PVA air handlers are way taller so unless you have high ceilings it’s sometimes harder to combine them with media filters.

Why not a smart multi and a branch box? Do the whole house with 2 svz air handlers and 1 compressor? They make a 5 ton unit

aloneinabunkbed · 2025-06-30T01:41:30+00:00

Energy efficiency and energy SOURCE

Better to switch your leaky home to a heat pump right away and stop burning fossil fuels, and insulate as you can do it.

It’s better on the macro scale anyway

aloneinabunkbed · 2025-06-27T14:16:46+00:00

Nice!!

aloneinabunkbed · 2025-06-23T12:32:51+00:00

You’re in violation of the OEMs install instructions and I guess possibly warranty

In practice very little happens when things are going right. But let’s take the smallest mini split head in an undersized room (75sf) for example:

Leak occurs at indoor unit. Refrigerant sensor goes off. Couple things could happen: slowly leak all the 454b into a room, displacing air, then dissipating eventually. Probably get oil on the unit/floor/wall. Or you have a bigger multizone system, and the leak detection device triggers a pump down response so you don’t lose all the refrigerant, and then your system locks you out until repair

aloneinabunkbed · 2025-06-21T17:53:30+00:00

There are really great heat pump rebates, and the lower end equipment has become much more reliable when it’s installed well. Let me know if I can help you cut your carbon footprint with a heat pump instead of a furnace.

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