Top 3 Heat Pump ISSUES in Winter!

Do you have a heat pump meant to be an economic solution for heating your home in the Winter? This video is the Top 3 Heat Pump ISSUES we see in Winter! Hopefully knowing these issues, you'll be able to save money avoiding higher utility bills, more breakdowns, and lower performance. Heat pumps can be the solution you're hoping for if you can avoid these issues!

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0:00 Intro: 3 biggest issues heat pumps have in Winter
0:59 Unnoticed Low Refrigerant
2:56 Poor Maintenance
4:49 Defrost Issues
6:01 Outro: Heat Pump Issues

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[scotta]

Great information. We have a 15 SEER Bryant Heat Pump (4 Ton) and a FAG Heat Controller Furnace as an air handler. Ran the Heat Pump during December which wasn't extremely cold in the Northwest. Average around 30 degrees. And OMG, we got a $400 electric bill. Switched back over the Natural Gas Heat.

[thelouiebrand]

Mr cool 4-5 ton here. It costs me a FORTUNE to run in the winter. My last bill was $600 and last month wasn’t that cold yet. The backup heat is for rich people. With no backup heat strip and the temp drops below 20° the unit becomes useless. But again, the heat strip is for rich people.

[matthewfinamore]

Bosch IDS 20 3t HP unit installed. With 10kw toaster oven. NJ. First cold month 20-30 degrees or so daily temp= $300 electric bill. Needless to say adjusted that cut off point on the ecobee to switch over to the NG boiler. Was at 15 degrees, changed that to 25 real quick. Very happy w the 20.5 SEER in summer time tho!!!!

[whitbyontario]

I have a 25-year-old ICM heat pump that runs great at minus 18 Celsius.

[goodear]

Should you allow your heat pump (outdoor unit) to run during single digit temperatures even if it may run for days? Some say no but most say it's better for the parts (outside unti) to be moving rather than sitting still in extreme cold temps.

[abraxusvolta]

Carrier heat pump does not go into defrost mode or engage the fan. Thermostat indicates heat pump running but fan not spinning and then system switches to strip heating after 5-10 minutes. No error messages on the Cor thermostat. Unit was working 1 day ago with evident defrost steam and fan spin (camera is on the heat pump to record activity 24/7). 4 years old & circuit board replaced 2 years ago. Refrigerant levels unknown.

[tomtommining]

I have rather old heatpump TRANE XR11 20yrs. Recently bought the house. Did some basic maintenance. Like insulated the copper pipes that were naked outside :( and cleaned with hose. My issue happens when temps drop in the 30s it fails to heat efficiently or even just stops the heat process. Sometimes it tends to blow cold thru the vents for extended time when on heat again when it is low 30s outside.

[mrtickles]

-33f here and the panasonic aquarea heat pump decides to throw a fault code about the electric backup heater. The electric backup heater doesn't work at all. The pump stops all function when the fault arises. Sure miss the oil burner as it is currently 50f inside!

[garysmith]

I have a 30k BTU Mitsu split system (3 air handlers). This is my second winter. My indoor units are Hyper Heat, but the ODU is standard. My honest experience is, these will make warm air in the high single digits. Last winter, I woke up in early morning and the house was 52 !! Knew something was wrong.

Turns out, according to my weather station, we were at -1.8 degrees! The system is rated to +5. So, the heat pump was 7 below it's rating. I noted the system would turn on for about 2 minutes and then shut right down and repeat this while I stood there and listened. Basically, it could no longer pull warm air out of that low an outdoor temp.

So, I turned on the gas furnace for an hour and a half (3 cycles) and as soon as the morning sun came up and the temp rose to 7 degrees, I turned the Mitsubishi system back on and it began making warm air, running for about the usual half hour straight before an 8 minute defrost cycle. This at least, is how my system runs normally.

THIS WINTER, I decided to use my gas furnace as soon as we hit 10 degrees and give the heat pump a break. Soon as it gets to 13 degrees in the morning, I shut down the furnace, and go back to the Mitsu.

It has been a learning curve, but I believe I got a handle on it now and I am very happy with the new system. Yes, my electric bill can run high in winter, but it is still cheaper then running my 40 year old furnace with it's 150, 000 btu burner LOL.

[MrWhitelightning]

It’s 18 degrees here. Ours is maintaining heat inside but the outdoor unit is noisy 😮

[TheWilferch]

mention keeping the insides ( especially the bottom) clean of debris like grass and leaves...and routine servicing will take care of this. On my Goodman unit...and I think it's the same with all other middle-center section of the bottom pan of the outside unit ( where the compressor sits-on)....is lower than the surrounding perimeter where all the DRAIN SLOTS are. aren't the drain slots at the lowest portion...in the center section?

[jeanlanz]

Really helpful. Thank you so much for the heads-up. Sharing your expertise is very appreciated. God bless you.

[youngblisslife]

I live in Detroit so we were hit with that winter storm. We have those wall hvac units with baseboards in my loft and the hvacs stop working in the middle of the night in 1 degree weather outside. Long story short, half of my apt complex is particularly out of heat with the thermostats saying "defrosting" and I'm being charged +13 dollars in kwh a day for having the baseboards heat my 650sqft loft at 60 degrees with only 1/4 of my baseboards on. My PM are harassing me to leaving my baseboards on while they wait till AFTER Christmas to get someone out but I'm trying REALLY hard to keep my utilities under $200 WITHOUT heating problems. Anyways, I decided to stay at my family house and turn everything off except for the 1/2 baseboard in the living room to keep the pipes from freezing. This complex was renovated so cheaply smh. Will avoid this try of heating for now on.

[lorenzovienna]

Thank for the video. I had my furnace replaced 3 years ago and it was oversized. It countinued to over heat and shut off and turn back on right away. Ive had the technician out 7x now though out the install to try to fix. I was told by a different hvac tech that the has was tuned down to temporarily fix the over heating. Well now its in the negative cold snap here in Chicago and my heat cant keep up with the -10s and 20+degree windshield. Runs all night for few days stright sometimes dosent shut off. We went to bed and it was 74 degrees woke up and it was reading 68 degrees in the home. Had to buy a space heater to make it though last few days. Different techs who came out said the furnace installed was to large for my home. Also the return air duck was to small. They said the downstairs area could use a return because it dosen't have one. My question is, is this issue fixable and is the contract responsible for rectifying this problem with the correct size furnace. I have a warranty company that i use and they now said they aren't going to replace it, even though they admited to the contractor they used said the new units to big. My old furnace never had that problem before. Any recourse you can recommend be greatly appreciated.

[tommietrue]

It's Vibration, not a struggle on condenser nor fan...AC folks installed a Vibration Isolator. Problem gawn!

[tommietrue]

New Goodman Heat pump, Sept 18, 2023! Running smooth, cooling home fine. Checked out heat 2 days ago as we were down to 38. Heating worked fine! Back to cooling. Heat and Cooling both work great. This morning, lowered cooling to 75, Florida warming again, the outside unit has a continuous whomp whomp sound, like it is have a hard time or hesitation.
Yesterday a SS2 Safety-T-switch installed on air handler. Air return sounds fine, can not hear that unit outside at air return area. And breaker was to be changed, but something to do with our old house wiring. Waiting on electrician!
Each May have nothing to do with running noise. AC guys gonna come out and install vibration isolator.
But why? What do you think? Is the whomp whomp something you have dealt with?

[arounevongphichith]

yes..my heat pump just not blow hot this week and very cold inside the house. now find out the wire connector both side on the bottom that panel rusted and broken.becaue.of my poor maintenance.

[johnmitchell]

I live in an older rental house i just use 2 radiators and close the rest of the house off I live in Arkansas at least i can look right at my heaters and know they are working properly

[dnell]

How do you check refrigerant levels during cold temperature

[f.hababorbitz]

I have 3 heat pump mini splits, all high wall indoor units. I shut down one unit today, located on the north side of the building (for good summer AC operation), but the wind today, prevented the defrost, as it blew any heat from the coils. I do have a snow hood over the unit. But I know the wind blew snow at the unit, which made more ice build up. This is an AirCon brand, 9KBTU. It does not have a pan heater.
I also have a Trane/American Standard that is still working and on the same side of this building, coil looks good on it, it's 32KBTU. I know this to be a Gree unit. It does have a pan heater. It's not keeping up to the heating load, as it's -10F, and heating a 1200sqft space. It was heating the space till this big blizzard, and going below 0F. I expected that.
I know that my latitude is too far north for all winter available heating of an air to air heat pump.