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phunky_1 t1_iui20gi wrote

I have found good luck trying to get an installer to call you back.

I have been wanting to do this as well and have called half a dozen companies multiple times with no call backs.

I am guessing they are all slammed with work from people trying to do the same thing and it might not be possible to get one this winter.

Cost wise it seems like you need to supplement it with solar to make it cheaper than oil when oil prices come back down to normal levels.

I want to get them for AC anyway so it seems like a no brainer to get a hyperheat system to at least lower oil costs while the cost of oil is high.

In the meantime I have been keeping thermostats low working from home during the day while the kids are at school and just running an oil filled electric radiator, it has been a lot cheaper than heating the whole house with oil all day.

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silasmoeckel t1_iuin9vj wrote

Having done the conversion twice now. You have pretty much a trade off scale one side how efficient the heat pump is at a given outside temp combined with your costs of electricity vs cost of oil. What that boils down to an an outside temp that you switch to using oil, and most of the time in CT it's way warmer than that.

Now combine that with solar. For the first few years when your paying off your panels thats probably in the 20's with a modern heat pump and oil > 2 bucks a gallon. Then you're price of electricity drops to 0 for what your panels put out so rapidly it's a question of still using less than you generate overall and what the heat pump can deal with. Think you need oil NG propane or something as a backup heat source in CT, cheaper and more efficient than a generator that can run heat pumps when we lose power for a week.

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