On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 11:43:17 -0600, RP
wrote:



Bob wrote:
For comparable cooling, your current central air conditioner would have to
be 15,000 BTU, and they don't make them that small. Your current unit is
probably 230 volts, and most 5,000 BTU window units are 115 volts. To match
the BTUs you have now, 115 volt units, it will cost you twice as much in
electricity.

Are you assuming that the averaged SEER of window shakers is going to be
half that of a central AC unit?

Richard Perry


Exactly!

All the previous posters are full of it.

The windows units will cool your house just fine and at half the cost
of your central unit. Assuming of course, that you do the smart
thing and only buy high EER units. Nothing lower than a 11 EER.

And you can buy 220 or 110 and have a line run if one is not there.
You probably aren't using that 220 line behind your gas stove, anyway.