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 Posted: Mon Mar 1st, 2010 06:43 pm
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 Bryan...back again with a 2 day report on our new hybrid GE we put in. Installation was no problem. (It looks like a robot with antenae). We installed 7 inch loops in the water pipes to form heat traps, as GE suggested. The noise it makes in E-heat (heat pump only) is a bit more than I had anticipated. I could see noise might be a problem if it was installed in the kitchen or bath/bedroom area. Ours is in the basement, so not a problem. It sounds like a large floor fan on high. Of course, you could always turn the fan off and switch to electric in those instances it was a problem.
Ours seems to run twice a day in E heat, keeping in mind we have low use. When its just keeping up to heat, it runs for half to one hour. When we do dishes (hand) and take two showers at night, it kicks on by the second shower and runs for two hours. GE had told me that when you use 10 gals of hot water, it runs about an hour on E heat, and that seems about right. WE also set ours up on a thick hard foam base, with plywood on top of the foam, to insulate it from the cool basement floor. I picked that energy tip up from the Canadian govt site. I hope you maybe picked up something new with this message... Angie