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 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
