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<blockquote data-quote="Firpo" data-source="post: 4202196" data-attributes="member: 45550"><p>First I appreciate your sharing this and am glad you’re back up and running. I Never had a heat pump until moving here and boy, it’s been an education. Wasn’t it October of 2021 when we all lost power? I was sitting in the cat-bird seat thinking I was set with my 22KW generator when the thing kept kicking off on “over current”. Come to find out those darn heat strips draw 86 amps which is just about all my generator will put out. I’ve been told so many different stories (by hvac techs) I don’t know what to believe BUT there are two 60A two pole breakers on the dead front. I believe one controls the heat pump and one strip while breaker #2 is for the two strips tied to “emergency heat”. I can maybe <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤷🏼♂️" title="Man shrugging: medium-light skin tone :man_shrugging_tone2:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f937-1f3fc-2642.png" data-shortname=":man_shrugging_tone2:" /> throw breaker 2 which will only allow one set of heat strips to work OR pull the dead front and remove one of the wires going to one of the coils in the three control relays for heat strips tied to breaker #2 limiting myself to two heater strips that can work. That at least was my plan but now if we lose power again like that I’ll just shut off the heater all together and heat the house with our propane/gas fireplace and ceiling fans to circulate the air. I ran a test this past cold spell and that fireplace burns around 15 gallons a day keeping the house a toasty 78°.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Firpo, post: 4202196, member: 45550"] First I appreciate your sharing this and am glad you’re back up and running. I Never had a heat pump until moving here and boy, it’s been an education. Wasn’t it October of 2021 when we all lost power? I was sitting in the cat-bird seat thinking I was set with my 22KW generator when the thing kept kicking off on “over current”. Come to find out those darn heat strips draw 86 amps which is just about all my generator will put out. I’ve been told so many different stories (by hvac techs) I don’t know what to believe BUT there are two 60A two pole breakers on the dead front. I believe one controls the heat pump and one strip while breaker #2 is for the two strips tied to “emergency heat”. I can maybe 🤷🏼♂️ throw breaker 2 which will only allow one set of heat strips to work OR pull the dead front and remove one of the wires going to one of the coils in the three control relays for heat strips tied to breaker #2 limiting myself to two heater strips that can work. That at least was my plan but now if we lose power again like that I’ll just shut off the heater all together and heat the house with our propane/gas fireplace and ceiling fans to circulate the air. I ran a test this past cold spell and that fireplace burns around 15 gallons a day keeping the house a toasty 78°. [/QUOTE]
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