# Finding my balance point?
**URL:** https://community.beestat.io/t/finding-my-balance-point/1387
**Category:** Feedback & Discussion
**Created:** [January 21, 2025, 7:35pm UTC](https://community.beestat.io/t/finding-my-balance-point/1387 "2025-01-21T19:35:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Donnybrook](https://community.beestat.io/u/Donnybrook)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2025, 7:35pm UTC](https://community.beestat.io/t/finding-my-balance-point/1387/1 "2025-01-21T19:35:18Z")
I’m trying to follow the beestat guide to optimize my heat pump system and I feel as dumb as a box of rocks. I may be overtired.
Can someone explain it like I am 5 how to get my Balance Point? Our house has 2 ecobee3 lite thermostats.
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### Author:  [@Donnybrook](https://community.beestat.io/u/Donnybrook)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2025, 7:35pm UTC](https://community.beestat.io/t/finding-my-balance-point/1387/2 "2025-01-21T19:35:57Z")
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### Author:  [@Donnybrook](https://community.beestat.io/u/Donnybrook)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2025, 7:43pm UTC](https://community.beestat.io/t/finding-my-balance-point/1387/3 "2025-01-21T19:43:10Z")
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### Author:  [@ziebelje](https://community.beestat.io/u/ziebelje)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2025, 11:29am UTC](https://community.beestat.io/t/finding-my-balance-point/1387/4 "2025-01-23T11:29:00Z")
Balance point = The outdoor temperature where the orange line crosses the x-axis. In your case, it’s not visible on the chart. If you use the Heat line equation that’s:
y = mx+b
We want where y = 0, and to solve for x, so
(y - b) / m = x
(0 - b) / m = x
We know m = 0.0189, b = 1.9617
Plug and solve
x = -103.8°F
Congratulations, your heat pump cares little about thermodynamics.
Do you happen to have a gas furnace instead of a heat pump?
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### Author:  [@Donnybrook](https://community.beestat.io/u/Donnybrook)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2025, 1:35pm UTC](https://community.beestat.io/t/finding-my-balance-point/1387/5 "2025-01-23T13:35:17Z")
I wish I had gas heat. I’ve taken screenshots of my downstairs themostat to share now.
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### Author:  [@Donnybrook](https://community.beestat.io/u/Donnybrook)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2025, 1:35pm UTC](https://community.beestat.io/t/finding-my-balance-point/1387/6 "2025-01-23T13:35:47Z")
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### Author:  [@Donnybrook](https://community.beestat.io/u/Donnybrook)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2025, 1:36pm UTC](https://community.beestat.io/t/finding-my-balance-point/1387/7 "2025-01-23T13:36:19Z")
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### Author:  [@ziebelje](https://community.beestat.io/u/ziebelje)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2025, 12:20pm UTC](https://community.beestat.io/t/finding-my-balance-point/1387/8 "2025-01-24T12:20:25Z")
Oh, if you have two thermostats then you have to take the profiles with a grain of salt. In a zoned system, the beestat profiles only collect data for a zone when only that zone is active. That prevents bleed as air moves between zones.
An upstairs zone is almost always going to have a very effective-looking profile. Heat rises, and upstairs zones are often smaller in volume than downstairs ones, so it’s entirely possible the upstairs zone has a profile like yours.