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What Would Happen if Every American Got a Heat Pump (www.wired.com)
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[โ€“] Anticorp@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

We hit 0 degrees a month ago and the heat pump was not running. Only the furnace would run when it was that cold. I've read that they can work down to 0 though, so I think the installer might have configured it wrong. I've been meaning to call them to get that looked into.

[โ€“] seang96@spgrn.com 3 points 8 months ago

From what I read there are ones that work in the negatives mostly around -10 as the limit though.