Furnace blower

[Barony]

With the weather this cold, should I be running the furnace on continuous or just leave it on automatic (kick on when the heat pump kicks in)? It's a multiple stage blower, and when the heat pump isn't running, it's just a real light breeze coming from the vents (on continuous). I guess my thought is that I'm trying to keep an even temp in the house both upstairs and down by circ. the air. Any advise?

[BobT]

With it this cold I'd guess the blower is probably running almost constantly anyway unless your furnace is way over-sized.

Running the blower steady can help maintain a more balanced distribution of the air in the home though.

Bob

[fastkaw]

What BobT Said.

It's not going to hurt anything.

[acman2u]

I always leave mine on continuous, it keeps an even temp throughout the house.

[DrKen]

I assume you have a geothermal unit and not a airsource heat pump. Run the fan continuous, won't hurt it a bit. Geothermals usually do not have a lot of catch up. In other words, don't turn temp down at night or when gone. Just set a temp and leave it alone. Running the fan helps even the temp and lets the geo react sooner to keep even temp. If you do have a airsource heat pump, it should not be running at this temp. Should be on the main heat unit. Airsource except for the Hallowell are not designed to work at these temps.

[Barony]

It is a geo unit and thanks for your help a few months ago with info gathering/research DrKen. So far so good. It would be nicer to have a "normal" year temp wise to compare last years bill to this year. In Nov, there was a $52 difference, but in Dec there was only a $6 difference. With that said, we have an outdoor hot tub that the heat sensor went out on and the tub was at 107-109 for a few weeks until we were able to fix it. I think that spun the meter pretty fast.