Wes wrote:

My metal working for today was shopping for a small air conditioner for my machine room
and modeling an adjustable feed tube for an assembly cell at work. That was an excuse to
play with my copy of Alibre Expert. Sadly, the .step file imported with 9 inches coming
in as 9 mm. I'll be making my first call to support in the 13 months I've licensed the
product. Mech Desktop 2009 exported the file I was trying to work with.

I was looking at a 5300 btu energy star a/c with electronic controls when I looked at the
cost of owning a 9.7 seer unit with mechanical controls and decided it wasn't worth the
extra money. I can fix one with switches and conventional temperature switches. The room
isn't very big but I want to be able to play when it gets hot and muggy.

The other benefit is one of those clock work light timers can turn it on in advance of my
arival. No idea how an electronic control ac would react to that.


I have a window air conditioner with a remote control. If the power
goes off, you have to turn it back on with the remote, or a button on
the control panel.

I have a regular air conditioner in a small cottage I used when I was
still able to work. I had a 120 VAC water heater type timer programmed
to turn it on an hour before I got home from work to start cooling the
bedroom.


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