meskinct
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Re: [OT] Heat Pump vs. Fossil review
Mine will defrost every 90 minutes. That's the default. Most of them you can set to 30, 60 or 90. You can also 'force' a defrost by jumping two pins together on the compressor unit itself. I noticed that mine iced up a few times last winter so I messed with the defrost timing. Be warned, a defrost consumes some major juice! I ended up setting it back to 90 minutes and wired up a momentary switch that will jump the two pins together to force a defrost. Now, I can defrost from inside! 
My unit is rated to produce heat down to +9 F and it does pretty well.
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| Mine supposedly has a microprocessor controlled defrost which somehow is supposed to detect frost then begin the cycle. How well or if it works, only time will tell. I don't think I'll be able to manually invoke a defrost however.
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