On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 4:57 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.
>
>
Ken,
  Actually, I did think we were talking residential.  You are right that
commercial is a different story.

Andy

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