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Article #339Re: {{{ Heat Pump Thermostat Question }}}
From: Brian Sward
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 00:00
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 00:00
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mcd@out2.nntp.min.net writes: > > Average house temperature of 76 requires the heat pump to work throughout > the day, coming on and turning off depending on the requirements. Is the > total time that the heat pump runs less than if the unit is turned off > during the day, and turned on at 5:00pm where it needs to run for 2 hours > straight to cool down the house? > > It seems to me that it would be more work to cool down a house that was 95 > degrees to 76 degrees than it would be to maintain 76 throughout the day > much the same as you get better mileage in your car on the highway than > you do in the city. > Actually, your second paragraph supports my argement more thansupporting your first paragraph. Isn't switching on and off 15 times a day more like stop and go driving in the city than running the heat pump for two hours at steady state? -Brian -- Brian K. Sward bks4q@virginia.edu "Time flies like an arrow; Fruit flies like a banana."
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From: bks4q@watt.seas.Virginia.EDU (Brian Sward)
Subject: Re: {{{ Heat Pump Thermostat Question }}}
Date: 1997/08/27
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