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[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Was gonna say, someone's not subscribed to Dishwasher and Christmas Lights Rants.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

You forgot about the heat pumps! The man LOVES his heat pumps!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Really anything that involves a bi-metallic strip.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Anything that the budget says can be bought in pairs.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

Through the magic of buying two of them...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

They're dope as hell. I got one on my dryer. Shit works fine and uses so much less energy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

For good reason. I don't live in the family home anymore, but last winter when I did move back in for a while, I had approximately half as much work to do keeping the damn place warm, thanks to the heat pump. But I mean sure, I could also just buy one of those fancy newer automatic furnaces to replace the old furnace, and there'd be no work at all! Except that costs at least 5x as much as I paid for a single air to air heat pump that also makes summers bearable.

All this for a relatively modest cost in terms of electricity because yo what the hell, heat pumps are more than 100% efficient when heating. It seems like we hacked physics, honestly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

My parents have a heat pump and they hate it. It can either provide hot water or heating, but not both at the same time. If someone has just had a shower then the heating switches off for hours while it refills the hot water tank. Bullshit in winter.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

How big is their accumulation tank? Or did they skimp on getting one?