Just curious if anyone has had a heat pump from a water heater detected? I searched threads, but it looked like most were in regards to regular electric water heaters. Unfortunately I had my water heater go out a few weeks ago. I decided to install a hybrid heat pump, and it really seems to be doin…

That would be nice. In the summer my HPWH was only costing me $10 a month pulling that hot attic air but that’s not an option in the winter here. I ran it in electric resistance mode for a week and the usage was much higher even pulling cooler air (70 degrees approximately) in my winter mode. Now no…

The trick of course is to switch the air intake (and outflow) in summer and winter. Here in the northeast in a small apartment an as-is HPWH would be great in summer drawing heat from my apartment and dumping cool air. In winter it’s exactly what I don’t want … especially given that my heating is 1…

Well I agree with 100% resistive heat You’re not saving anything in heat pump mode but from what I’ve read on various websites my Mitsubishis are efficient to the point where even having my HPWH steal heat from them I’m better off than having my water heater in resistive mode. I can’t pull air from …

It’s probably, as you say, “a wash”, but … More efficiency in your case, if I understand your setup, could come from un-insulating the HPWH room in summer … i.e. the cool air output by the heat pump could cycle into a conditioned (by your mini-split) space vs being trapped in the insulated room and…

I floated the idea of keeping the central air vent ( maybe adding another?) behind my fridge open in the summer and letting the cool air from the HPWH enter the house but I wasn’t sure if having basically an 8" hole between my conditioned space and my attic was a good idea considering the HPWH doesn…

The interplay between hot-water-on and bathroom exhaust (shower mode) starts to get complicated. Eventually the only real solve is a heat exchanger (HRV/ERV) and ductwork. Seems like we have similarly obsessive concern … I start to wonder whether the excess heat my thoughts are generating could like…

I thought about a (HRV/ERV) but probably not doing it at this point. That’s funny I did think that in my summer setup when someone showers ( exhaust fan on ) the HPWH would be on hence the air would be cool coming out plus the opening to the vented attic would make life easier on the bathroom exhaus…

I’ve labeled my Rheem Hybrid water heater in my Sense inventory. Given Rheem is apparently having issues with the reliability of their monitoring, do you have any ideas about ways I can improve detection by Sense?

Yeah I was thinking of possibly running an exhaust duct to actively pump the cool air back into the condition living space. The storage room is well insulated now, before I put the heat pump water heater in I spray foam the walls and the ceiling as it doesn’t have any direct heat. I have that centra…

I’ve had Sense installed for 2 weeks now today and this afternoon it detected my AO Smith Heat Pump Hot Water Heater. Its a 60 gallon unit I installed in 2013/2014. Sense picked it up as Motor 1. Model# PHPT60102. I believe it picked up the compressor only which is currently drawing 641 watts while …

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