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On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 4:48 PM, ./aal <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >> >> >> > In one house, it helped to put in two systems when the house had one initially. The 'downstairs' was sized smaller than 'upstairs'. And turning off the upstairs (timer) really did keep the bills down, even while the 'downstairs' kept things even down there. The best thing to help my AC bills wherever I have been (and heat too) is more insulation. Yea, there are guidelines, but 'standard' is typically not enough. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
