Well, hello there. This is the HVAC School podcast as it turns out and I'm Brian and this is a short episode and this is a short episode and this short episode is completely robbed from Adam Mufich's article, which is a really great one called

Good Cop, Bad Cop, from January 24th.

You can find it on the HVEC school app or at HVACR School.. If you want to read through it,

but I'm going to give my own version of this

just for the podcast audience

with a little different spin.

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So here's the big question. Cut to the chase. When should you run emergency heat? The answer is if you have a heat

pump with backup electric heat, essentially never. Even in the worst case scenario,

if you shut off the heat pump you're still going to get less heat.

So if you're trying to get more heat, even if it's running in efficiently or inefficiently compared to what is the question,

and that's what we're going to talk about. You still want that heat pump running.

Now again that's assuming everything's installed properly and the thing's not a snowbank or something crazy like that.

But under normal circumstances you do not want to put it in emergency heat.

Now there's a caveat and the caveat is if it's a

hybrid or a dual fuel system then you do want to set it up so that way the gas or

hydronic or whatever other form of heat that you're using that's fuel-based

takes over at a certain point. And that's where

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