And for thousands of years, humanity didn't build hotel rooms in Florida with ac being the only ventilation, either.Hope these proliferate. Conservation is important. Leaving the A/C on all the time in a room is wasteful. Humanity survived for thousands of years without any air conditioning at all.
It's technically not lying to you, it's just showing you the setpoint instead of the actual temp. But, yeah, it's a dirty trick. I've linked to the installation manual for the DDC2 and this 'feature' is called "Occupied Setbacks", a hidden limit to how much cooling you get even when the room is occupied. I tested this with a separate thermometer at CBR in 2014 and with temp set to 67F the AC ran for a while and then stopped (as if it had reached it's setpoint) but the air temp was still 72F. As soon as the air temp rose to 74F the AC kicked back on. This was back when the system was pretty new. From what I have read those setback temps seem to have been adjusted and this is less of an issue.I think this is where hotels are getting into consumer fraud. If you just show me the real temperature at all times, fine, I can adjust to that. But it's maddening when it is reading one thing and the actual temp is another. I am going to bring a temperature gauge next time, that should be a fun experiment
Generally speaking, AC has a very positive environmental effect. It allows us to live in areas where it is warmer, and it takes far less energy to cool an environment from 90F to 70F than it does to heat it from 0 to 70FHope these proliferate. Conservation is important. Leaving the A/C on all the time in a room is wasteful. Humanity survived for thousands of years without any air conditioning at all.
the heavier a person is, the warmer they tend to feel.
lol It is a generalization but really...my fluffier friends say things like "I'm never cold!" We live in Canada and they are the only friends who go outside in capris and a hoodie in -15C. I fight with people at work all the time because they want the buildings ac turned down yet 75% of us are already freezing. lol
It's technically not lying to you, it's just showing you the setpoint instead of the actual temp. But, yeah, it's a dirty trick. I've linked to the installation manual for the DDC2 and this 'feature' is called "Occupied Setbacks", a hidden limit to how much cooling you get even when the room is occupied. I tested this with a separate thermometer at CBR in 2014 and with temp set to 67F the AC ran for a while and then stopped (as if it had reached it's setpoint) but the air temp was still 72F. As soon as the air temp rose to 74F the AC kicked back on. This was back when the system was pretty new. From what I have read those setback temps seem to have been adjusted and this is less of an issue.
Generally speaking, AC has a very positive environmental effect. It allows us to live in areas where it is warmer, and it takes far less energy to cool an environment from 90F to 70F than it does to heat it from 0 to 70F
That's saying nothing about the toll heat takes on the body. An 8 day heat wave struck France in 2003 and killed 14,000 people (mostly elderly). 8 days of 100F temps is basically what Texas calls a week and a day in July.
He did say it was a "dirty trick." I think he's agreeing with you that it's deceitful. He just said it's not "lying," meaning it is showing you the temperature you attempted to set it at. It's then programmed not to allow it to reach that temperature.I'm confused...how is that not deceitful? It's showing you the number you entered, not the temp of the room. Maybe I am not getting it
I agree Scott. @Shanti @HeatherLassell Thats a hurtful and terrible stereotype to assume all "fluffier" folks are always warm/hot/overheated. Just horrible.This comment is hurtful and not true.
exactly.Generalization is the truest word here. While apparently true for you, not true for the masses, and a hurtful stereotype!
Hope these proliferate. Conservation is important. Leaving the A/C on all the time in a room is wasteful. Humanity survived for thousands of years without any air conditioning at all.
I agree Scott. @Shanti @HeatherLassell Thats a hurtful and terrible stereotype to assume all "fluffier" folks are always warm/hot/overheated. Just horrible.
For some reason I'm fascinated by those of you who want the room temp below 68. What are you hanging meat?
When you come inside from outside in extremely hot/humid weather where temps feel like 100+, below 65-66 isn't all that cold.
Lol - this just shows how comfort levels are all over the spectrum. After being outside in high temperatures (which is pretty much a given here in Louisiana), a 75° room feels positively Arctic.