air conditioning wars are ....errrrrr .....heating up? well we aren't flaming about OS's ;^)
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Ken Barber <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jun 18, 2009, at 2:06 PM, Andrew Farnsworth wrote: > > > Oooh, them is fightin' words!!! > > Don't bother. I'm a former HVAC tech. > > > Running an overrated airconditioner is much more expensive > > energywise, than running a correctly sized one. If you have an AC > > unit > > I never said anything about running "an" air conditioner (i.e., only > one system). I said "buy more air conditionING than you think you'll > need". That may or may not translate to one unit. > > And, Brandon Valentine, you don't size your A/C according to the room > (well, they do for residential but we were talking about a commercial > building), you size it according to the load. > > There are lots of ways to engineer capacity control in HVAC. None of > them involve putting in the bare minimum of capacity that you think > you'll ever need. > > > > -- -- NOT sent from an iphone,blackberry,Nokia, or any handheld. -- I'm a PC(x86 AND ppc) AND I RUN LINUX!!! Linux is like ice cream. It comes in many flavors and everyone has their favorite, but we all get the same smile regardless of which we choose to scoop. - Fran Lebowitz <http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/27602.html> - "I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you ... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
