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.
Wes