Edward Reid wrote:
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... If you disable the resistance heat (which is a viable course of
action in the southern US), then you can ignore that advice and save
some money, albeit at the tradeoff that it may take quite a while to
bring the temperature back up.

One alternate ploy rather than disabling them entirely is what the
installer of our system did routinely -- he used a thermister inline w/
the emergency heat that kept them out of the control circuit w/ outside
temperatures were above about 20-25F.

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