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Your outdated thermostat habits spike your bill
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The number on your thermostat screen is probably wrong. Not broken wrong. Strategy wrong. The Department of Energy quietly rewrote its thermostat guidance and the old set it and forget it rule no longer matches how modern variable speed equipment runs. In this episode I walk through the new DOE setpoint advice, why the old 8 degree setback rule hurts efficiency on a two-stage or variable speed system, and what I actually recommend to homeowners in Kingfisher running everything from 1990s single-stage units to modern inverter heat pumps. More episodes…
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