Heat not getting to 1st Floor

I am with Joe and Dewayne on this one....

....something does not ring true about the on off switch.

To find a clever duct guy ask for one. I think PA is between Cleveland and Washington DC, but what does a reformed scorched air guy know about geography.

 

Sure it makes sense. The air wasn't hot....said that in my very first post. It's why I asked about the temperature that normally comes out of an electric heat pump as compared to geo. The air coming out of the vents on the first floor was not hot At All.

Naturally, any room which is the first one off the unit is going to be hot, and it's going to dissipate from there. The top two floors were very hot until we played with the dampers and vents. But - Once that switch was turned on, they were ALL getting hot air. And it was *instant.*

Even though the living room duct isn't working its best yet, it should be better when we close off another room. There is some tweaking we still have to do, but the air temperature mystery is solved, which was the thing that concerned me most, since it probably meant we needed a stronger system.

The fact remains that when the air coming out is hot, the temperature in the room goes Up.

On/Off. Palacegeo, no apologies necessary! We laugh Now...but we didn't when it was 61!

 

Perhaps we should add "is it turned on" to the trouble shooter check list.

 

Classic example of how hard it is to diagnose via cyberspace.

I suppose that if the circuit breaker to the airhandler and the control voltage transformer was on 1 circuit but the compressor was on another (or compressor disco was pulled) then you could have what the OP describes

 

By and large cyberdiagnostics are simple enough if all the pertinant information is provided.
I still don't think this one adds up. It almost sounds like there is a second unit downstairs.
Switch may have disabled aux or compressor, but not air flow.
Think about it. If fan runs at all, speed wouldn't be different with compressor or aux turned off as control would still be calling for it. Mix in OP comments that system is running and.......
J

 

Joe>>>

>>>> this is not reading well in what is left of my mind's eye(s). I would buy a damper or a second unit, even a zoning system being wrong befor the I/O error. On the other hand some units I have seen and worked on reroute the blower to the emegancy heat circuit, the idea being to prevent strip heaters melting down if there is a call and the compressor tripped the main control breaker. I think this is a waste of time and wire since ther transfommer providing control power is usualy on the first breaker, therefore a call is imposible without the transfomer being powered .

 

I've seen what you describe, Mark - and it trips up folks trying to disable aux strips.

If there is a 2nd unit in play - that would be an example of a diagnostic cyberfail.