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re: AC/thermostat terminology
Posted on 6/24/24 at 3:04 pm to caro81
Posted on 6/24/24 at 3:04 pm to caro81
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If one is going to make the house colder (numbers on thermostat lower) do you say "turning the AC up" or "turning the AC down".
You’re both dumbasses.
Why do y’all love conflict?
Identity the numerical temperature you want and there’s no issue.
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Posted on 6/24/24 at 3:07 pm to caro81
Turning the AC up means higher temp, turning it down means lower temp to me.
Posted on 6/24/24 at 3:16 pm to caro81
I'm constantly told to Not turn the AC up even though I have to wear a hoodie in the house. Set at 71
Down is making it colder here.
Down is making it colder here.
Posted on 6/24/24 at 5:13 pm to Willie Stroker
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You’re both dumbasses.
Why do y’all love conflict?
why is it so many of you are afraid to or cant have a fun playful argument with your SO? Sounds like half you guys are married to some real fun ladies to be around.
The wife got a kick out some of your responses. The redneck thing in particular.
This post was edited on 6/24/24 at 5:17 pm
Posted on 6/24/24 at 5:19 pm to caro81
In the car, you turn the air up, because you aren’t setting a temp, you are going from low to high.
In the house, you turn the air down to make it colder. It’s still blowing at the same power.
In the house, you turn the air down to make it colder. It’s still blowing at the same power.
Posted on 6/24/24 at 6:06 pm to caro81
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debate not argument. its friendly.
Famous last words.
Posted on 6/24/24 at 6:17 pm to Obtuse1
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As I tried to explain in the women think setting the hold point lower increases cooling capacity thread the old way of thinking about residential split AC systems is becoming more and more incorrect. More systems have multi-stage compressors which indeed vary the cooling capacity, the ones we installed last year are 5 stage and can vary cooling capacity from 25% to 100% of the system so for each of our systems between 15k BTU and 60k BTU. So for many systems installed today, you can indeed turn an AC unit up to increase cooling capacity. So it is possible to turn the AC unit "up" by turning the hold/set temp on the thermostat down.
This may be true, but how far away do you think your thermostat has to be from set point to get to 100% output? Surely it’s not 10-15 degrees.
And in practice, the argument never comes up with that type of system because the extra capacity means it actually reaches its setpoint. The context of the argument is almost always something along the lines of “it’s 75 degrees and the thermostat is set at 68, so she turns it down to 60.” At that point any multi-stage system is probably running full-blast anyway and if not, there’s an issue somewhere with the programming.
Posted on 6/24/24 at 6:58 pm to caro81
Turn down for what?
Posted on 6/24/24 at 7:04 pm to caro81
My wife and I communicate like civilized people and ask to turn the AC/heat/air warmer or cooler. Ambiguity of speech sows the seeds of war.
Posted on 6/25/24 at 8:56 am to Obtuse1
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As I tried to explain in the women think setting the hold point lower increases cooling capacity thread the old way of thinking about residential split AC systems is becoming more and more incorrect. More systems have multi-stage compressors which indeed vary the cooling capacity, the ones we installed last year are 5 stage and can vary cooling capacity from 25% to 100% of the system so for each of our systems between 15k BTU and 60k BTU. So for many systems installed today, you can indeed turn an AC unit up to increase cooling capacity. So it is possible to turn the AC unit "up" by turning the hold/set temp on the thermostat down.
I just got a chuckle thinking about someone trying to explain this to my wife.
Posted on 6/25/24 at 12:47 pm to caro81
Turn the thermostat to the temperature you want your house to be. No temperature speeds up cooling or heating. Not that complicated.
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