Re: more fun with air conditioning

From: J Jensen (jjensen14_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 07/23/04 

Date: 23 Jul 2004 08:43:44 -0700

"TURTLE" <turtle@worldnetla.net> wrote in message news:<2mb685Fhhp76U2@uni-berlin.de>...
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> 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.
>

I never do turn it entirely off, but that is probably a good point about
the effect on other applicances...

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