• DeusHircus@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    Are you intimately familiar with the inner workings of your heatpump? Nearly all heatpumps in a cold climate have backup heat built in and it would automatically switch to backup when it gets too cold outside. -30C is well into the too cold category for it to function as a heatpump alone

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      1 year ago

      Which makes the argument that heat pumps don’t work in the cold completely wrong from a user perspective.

    • Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz
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      1 year ago

      Yeah I have no idea. The alternative would be electric radiators anyways so in most cases that wouldn’t make a difference anyways. Temperatures that low are quite rare - maybe just a handful of nights a year. Generally it stays around -10C