Furnace off Heat Pump for garage

[Aruba1]

I have a heat pump that we removed due to a faulty compressor. The furnace itself it in good working order. I would like to connect the furnace to heat my garage and install a termostat. Does any know if this can be done or are they designed to work as a combined unit. Just looking for good advice from this forum that does not include "search the yellow pages for an electrician" .

Thanks in advance.

[_Ogre]

gas furnace with A coil on top for ac? yes and easy to do
or a heat pump that does heat and ac? no can not separate

[Ziegelsteinfaust]

I'd you got cleaver you could cut the ac section off and button up the side. Make sure to seperate the wiring.

Just be careful your in a humid area that rust out heat exchangers fast then the desert I call hone sweet hell. I have condemned 5 heaters this year alone.

[franken]

Seems pretty simple if its got an electric heating coil and a blower to push air past it. The heater is most likely 240V and the motor 120V. Needless to say more info is required. Do you have 240V handy? Some skill to wire it? Pics?

[_Ogre]

if it is the emergency heat for an actual heat pump, it will probably need a 50 amp circuit for that
i just notice he's in birmingham al, can't you just fart once or twice to heat a shop down there?

[PAWS 72]

Originally Posted by _Ogre

if it is the emergency heat for an actual heat pump, it will probably need a 50 amp circuit for that
i just notice he's in birmingham al, can't you just fart once or twice to heat a shop down there?

Not today. 17 degrees for high today. Just 130 miles north of him.

[bdiamond]

Each strip will pull ballpark of 20 amps. Around here most emergency heat setups call 4 strips on for a 1500ish sq. ft. house. It wouldn't be too big of deal to wire it up for heat/fan only with any number of strips you want to run.