On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Ken Barber <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Jun 18, 2009, at 11:09 AM, Sky Dog wrote: > > The moral to the story? > > The moral to the story: Always buy more air conditioning than you > think you'll need. Oooh, them is fightin' words!!! Running an overrated airconditioner is much more expensive energywise, than running a correctly sized one. If you have an AC unit that is rated for twice the cooling capacity you need, it will startup, run for a short time, and shutdown. A short time later the cycle will repeat. A correctly sized AC unit will startup, run a very long time and then shutdown. What is counter intuitive is that stopping and starting the oversized unit actually uses much more energy than running a correctly sized and modern AC unit all day long does. On a single unit, this isn't really a big deal, but on a multi unit system that is not balanced correctly it can turn into a sizable chunk of cash over the course of a year. Andy --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
