Travis Jordan wrote:
"dpb" wrote...

40A to 15A more efficient???? Now THAT is one efficient system...

I ain't buyin', sorry.

Normally I'd agree, but if a resistive heat air handler was changed out for
a variable speed heatpump only air handler, it would be completely logical.

Except OP specifically spoke of "emergency heat" kicking on which seems
to preclude that -- or, of course, could be he just does not know what
he just bought and paid for and had installed...

Or maybe the original breaker was oversized.

In about the same category as the above...

imo, ymmv, $0.02, etc., etc., ...

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