Oof. So our heat pump has blown both the control board AND the air handler fan motor.
And the dude who diagnosed said that the heat pump was running way over pressure, like twice what it's supposed to be, because of this, so on top of the failed components I now don't have much trust left in the rest of the heat pump.
Almost certainly going to be replacing the whole system. Already got one set of estimates ($24k for Midea, $28k for Mitsubishi), another estimate happening today, and two more estimates happening tomorrow.
Thank fuck we have space heaters, but damn, keeping 2300 square feet warm with four space heaters when it's 45 F outside is quite terrifying, both because of the fire risk and the outright cost of resistive heating when we're used to a heat pump.
But I'm definitely looking forward to a much more modern system. Our current one is so damn loud running at full blast, and full is the only blast it knows, so the new variable speed systems should be somewhat of an improvement on that, on top of probably some small efficiency gains too.
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