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Heh dawg
Not sure I understand what your saying but I have a heat pump also in my house and they are efficient. One of the ways they can be expensive, is if you have a back up electric furnace like I do, and the elements stay on when they shouldn't. The heat pump is running constantly most times, and when the weather is severe the system needs more than auxilliary heat(heat pump) and turns on (in my case) the electric element in my furnace for a short time, then back to aux and cycles back and forth untill the heat pump can solely handle the temperature outside when it's warmer then it runs by itself.(efficient heating)
You say you turned the a/c off. My thermostat is what they call a "dual stage " and you can't make the a/c come on in the winter or heat in the summer.You could leave the thermostat in one position and it would work for both seasons. Does yours have 2 lights(blue,red)? The system is totally automatic.You should have a emergency setting and aux on the thermostat, leave it on aux unless you have a problem with the unit.
One thing I didn't know is that the outdoor unit will go into a defrost mode every 45 minutes or so, and will in fact, blow cold air in the house while in this mode. This is needed to keep the unit defrosted. I am in the process of having mine replaced as the one I have is 20 years old. I hope to have one in every house I own for the cooling effect in the summer and the low power bills in the winter. I am quite pleased with it.
Kevcules
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