Introduction: Welcome to newtons heating and air conditioning blog. Today we are talking to our customers in Clearwater Florida. I am HVAC contractor and at newtons heating and air conditioning we have experienced HVAC technicians that are working under me and we have combined working experience of nearly 40 years between just two of us. We specialize in HVAC repair, HVAC maintenance, HVAC installation and we can take care of all of your HVAC service needs in Clearwater Florida. In addition for Clearwater Florida customers we are pros at doing any heat pump repair, they are our specialty and are very common in Clearwater Florida. We not only strive to be a Affordable HVAC company in heating and cooling but the best HVAC company in Pinellas county. In our blogs you will be able to learn about proper AC repairs and heating repairs and great HVAC installation tips. I hope you enjoy this article and we hope with these informationally rich articles that we maybe be able to take care of all your residential HVAC services needs. The main take away of these articles is to inform you about the best practices you can do as a homeowner and how to protect your self from unfair business practices. We do truly believe in honesty over sales and will do our best to do only Ac repairs or Ac service before ever recommending a ac installation. We know getting a Air conditioner installation is one of the biggest investments you can make as a homeowner. The last thing i want to make clear before we move onto this article. The most important thing you can do as a homeowner to help prevent unexpected air conditioner repairs or heater repairs is do get air conditioning maintenances or HVAC tune ups regularly or twice a year. While getting an annual maintenances done does help, getting an Air conditioner service done twice a year is better to avoid costly Air conditioning replacement. Thank you and we hope you enjoy this article, We love serving Clearwater Florida!
Our topic for today: In my experience as a HVAC technician or as a HVAC contractor in Clearwater Florida at newtons heating and air conditioning I can safely say there is one one particular brand of equipment that commonly has a problem when it turn on in heat and its not the units fault. This brand of equipment is rheme and when i have a customer call me they will say i turned my system on in heat and it came on in cooling! This is for heat pump systems in particular. Let me kind of explain how heat pump equipment works and you can understand where the problem comes in. On a heat pump system you normally have 2 sources of heat. 1 is your emergency heat and the other is just your HVAC system. On a straight cool system you will just have emergency heat or just your heat strips. Heat strips are called emergency heat on heat pumps and on straight cool thermostats its just called heat because that is all they have. The reason for that is in the scenario your ac is having a problem with your outdoor unit you still have your heat on the inside unit thus you get emergency heat. How your ac works to put it in layman’s terms is that hot air blows outside and cold air blows into your home. A heat pump system actually reverses that and makes hot air blow inside and cold air outside. On your thermostat you have you actually need to program it and tell it this is a straight cool system or this is a heat pump. There is a wire called your o wire which is typically orange and this is the wire on your thermostat that controls making your heat pump turn on in cooling or heating. Now this is where it gets tricky, on every other brand of equipment weather it a Trane, Carrier or Lenox the process of making your heat pump turn on in cooling or heating is different. Rheme decided it wanted to be different than all of the other brands. So you have to program a thermostat one way for every other brand of equipment and another way just for rheme. This throws off a lot of HVAC contractors and HVAC technicians especially if they don’t have a lot of experience with these units. Now here is the kicker say you go to turn on your system on in heat and its programed for the other brands of equipment and not rheme your unit will turn on in cooling instead of heating! On the flip side if you programed a thermostat for a rheme and its another brand and you turned it on in cooling and it would turn on in heating! The good news for this being one of the most common heater repairs is we just have to reprogram your thermostat to match what heat pump brand you have and here at newtons heating and air conditioning we can do that for free! So its very important to pick out a knowledgeable HVAC technician or HVAC contractor for people in Clearwater Florida or all of Pinellas county when your looking to get a heater repair. If you like this article you can also visit us to see more articles like this at www.newtonsheatingandairconditioning.com