HELP PLEASE!!!!Air Conditioner Runs when furnace is on???? (furnaces, electric heat, gas)
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I am hoping someone in here can give me some advice and maybe I can avoid a service call.
I just moved to Florida in November and we have not run our furnace this winter at all. Well, with the weather being so cold recently, we had to turn it on.
The furnace is a Trane and it is about 4 yrs old. Anyway, when the furnace kicks on, the air conditioner unit outside starts to run. Is that normal?
It is not my imagination. I went out and it is running. The furnace is in the garage and it runs in the garage as well as the air conditioner unit outside.
I'm guessing here....
But if your furnace is an electric heat pump, then the unit outside is what runs the heat pump, so it will turn on whenever your heat is on. Unlike gas furnaces from up north.
You have a heat pump. It will run when you have it on heat or air. The furnance in the garage is the blower and the outside unit is the fan and condensor.
If you have an emergency heat setting, then just the heat strip comes on with the blower.
You can google heat pumps and learn how they work. A 4 year old trane should last awhile. I have an 11 year old trane heat pump that is still running.
Thanks! I was not sure what was going on. It seemed strange to me. Thanks for clearing that up. What would I do without City Data? I get all my answers here
You need to call someone anyway and sign up for a routine, regular service call. Usually twice a year, once for summer, and then again for winter. They can often catch a problem before it gets bad enough to really cost.
That was a rental house - we have gas heat now. Not sure what you were trying to make a point of? I was trying to tell the person that if they never dealt w/a heat pump, it might throw them off.
I just moved to Florida in November and we have not run our furnace this winter at all. Well, with the weather being so cold recently, we had to turn it on.
I think you have received the answer to your question ... but I would like to suggest one thing. If you place your Thermostat fan switch to the "on" position you will be filtering your air all the time. The fan draws very little power (compared to the compressor outside). As you need heating and cooling the system will still do what it needs to and you will be moving the air in your home constantly through the filter. Now this means that your filter will get dirty sooner... but I fail to see how this is a bad thing... collecting up the dust and dirt in your home. Just a suggestion
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