PACIFIC NORTHWEST PEOPLE: if your heat pump coils freeze over or the heat pump otherwise can't keep up with the cold, set the mode switch on your thermostat to EMERG and it'll fire up the resistive heaters in the air handler, usually around 5kw
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in reply to @atomicthumbs's post:
this doesnt really have anything to do with the alert itself since we don't have a heat pump
but i wanted to look up more information about it and of course the first result i get looked useful at first but then devolved into what looks like ai-generated sludge
i hate how useless the internet is any more
every single result is like this. one of them on hvac dot com just randomly terminates in a FAQ that has two questions and one answer in it, leaving a hanging questino
screaming
If you’ve accidentally turned on your EM heat and you’re frantically Googling “how to turn off emergency heat,” don’t worry. Just like turning it on, you can deactivate your emergency heat with the switch.