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Old 12-24-2023, 09:17 AM   #18
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Originally Posted by BB_TX View Post
High efficiency home heat pumps will heat below freezing. Our home unit does well down to around 28 or lower. Although if the humidity is high the outside coils will frost over and the unit has to run in AC mode a minute or two to melt that ice. I guess the small RV types efficiency is not there yet.
Bill,

Home heat pumps use electric heat strips as temps get low. Have had a home heat pump before - never again. Give me a gas furnace.
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