Mine is bigger than yours: Shop A/C notes

Proctologically ViolatedÂ©Â® · 2007-08-06T11:54:30+00:00

Awl--My latest discovery:It is possible to have a shop that is *too cold* in August! And with consequences....Prior to actually having too-cold of a shop in August, I wouldna thought either possible!But first, a vig-net.So ahm throwin the bull off line with one of the fairly-regular regulars here, and natcherly we're bragging about our respective shops.'Course, his is makin money, and mine is sending me to the poorhouse.Nevertheless, I'm crowing, somewhat along the lines of broked-ness, about my 70 F shop on 95 F 100% humidity days--with buckets and buckets and buckets of condensate to proudly show for it.So he tells me, Yeah, I keep *my* shop at 69 F....Yeah, yeah, yeah, right, I mumble.So I get an email from him with an attachment, with some cryptic enticement.Lo and behold is an image of his thermostat/thermometer, reading.... 69 F!!One of them coffee-on-the-monitor moments. wow....OK, so his is indeed bigger than mine...But it did get me thinking, apropos of some other comments in hvac-related threads, that indeed, apart from cost and it being a little too chilly, that too cold also predisposes condensate on metal, even with considerable moisture being taken out of the air.Dew point, and all that.I started seeing rust where I wouldn't have expected to see it, with an A/C going 24/7.So I was sort of checkmated into the following mildly inneresting scenario:I now have the A/C set at about 78 F, which I figger me and the cats can live with, as long as it's dry.But at *77* deg, it can still get pretty muggy, as the A/C won't be running.So what to do?Run the dehumidifier, of course.But which throws out boucou heat--great in the winter, problematic in the summer.Unless you have the A/C running, as well.So now, as my electric meter is reflecting, I got *both* on!Altho I haven't witnessed this yet, I imagine there is some kind of duet going on among the two, as one is set on temp, and the other on humidity: Both, one, the other, or neither can be running, altho...

Aug 06, 2007 60 Replies

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Don Foreman 19 years ago

But (unlike most authors and managers), you do know how a kwh meter works.

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