"J Jensen" wrote in message
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In regards to the recent posting I saw about running the a/c or opening the
windows, I would like to list several statements that people have made to
me about air conditioning. The location is Texas, where the temperature
is about 75 F at night and 100 F at the hottest part of the day.

1. Keeping the a/c cooling the house all day uses less electricity than
turning it off and then back on in the evening or when you return from
a vacation.

2. Running the a/c a few degrees colder at night cools the big cement slab
that the house is built on, and thus saves electricity during the day
(the a/c is set back to normal living temperature during the day).

2b. If the temperature inside the house reaches 78 F at 10 AM on both days
with the a/c set colder the previous night, and also when it was just
set normally the previous night, then that proves setting it colder made
no difference.

3. The a/c uses less current at night ( you measure it with an ammeter as
it is running ).

4. The a/c uses less current if you spray the outside unit with the garden
hose and then measure it with the ammeter.

5. Shading the outside unit (compressor and condenser) does not reduce
electricity costs [Assume shade does not block air flow].

6. If you have high ceilings and ceiling fans, it is more energy efficient
to leave the fans running at low speed all the time to pull down hot air
and get it to circulate through the a/c system.

7. It isn't worthwhile to check on the amount of Freon (or whatever) that is
in the system -- all that matters is measuring the temperature of the
cold air coming out (say 62 F) and the outside temperature or maybe the
attic temperature.

--Jeff

This is Turtle.

You got too many Question here and I will answer just the first 2 .

Answer to 1 ) If you turn a hvac system off less than 8 hours. It will cost
you more money to recool the house from a very high temperature to the lower
temperature than just moving up to a higher temperature on the thermostat. If
your going to be gone more than 8 hours move the thermostat to about 85ºF or so
and turn it back down when you get back home. If your going to be gone for 24
hours or more like on vacation. move the thermostat to the highest setting of
about 95ºF and keep the house below 95ºF because refrigerator , Freezers, and
Wine Coolers are not designed to run in temperatures above 95ºF. Most or a lot
of Refrigerator & Freezers will stop working at 100ºF or above. If you read the
installation instruction when you bought the refrigerator or freezer it tells
you to not run the appliance in ambiant above 95ºF. Also do not run it in
Ambiants of below 40ºF.

Answer to 2) and 2B) .

2) Hog wash.

2B) You found the Hog wash answer was the answer.

TURTLE


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