Your thoughts on Air conditioning

Well yeah, you’re up there by the polar bears, buying fuel for your vehicles, and presumably a single house smaller than 4100sq ft. :P
 
Two houses, two electricl cars, hottest month of the year (so far)(.... it all adds up. The two car chargers can pull 80 amps combined. The care chargers pulled 1.35MWh over the past month.


7MWh/30 days... yeah 40 amps @ 240V 24/7.
5.65MWh/30 days= ~33 amps @ 240V... or 16.5amps per house, continuously.
 
That bill doesn't really seem that bad to me, I spend <$1k/year on all energy combined aside from gasoline, but I've seen high bills like that from other people online that don't have electric cars. Might not have been USA, but still.
 
When you add the vehicles in its cheap, but then again i get about 12 mpg in my damn truck lol. Thankfully I'm only 10 min from work right now.
 
lumberjack said:
Well yeah, you’re up there by the polar bears, buying fuel for your vehicles, and presumably a single house smaller than 4100sq ft. :P
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All true, Carl. We don't heat or cool the house with electricity, aside from the ceiling fan in the living room and a stand fan in the bedroom...and neither of those see much use on an annual basis. It's only 1500 sq. feet.
 
If not for the humidity, I could live here without ac. If my ac broke, I probably wouldn't pay to fix it, though I might consider buying a portable unit depending on how things went. Thermostat is usually set to 80° when I'm home, and since this thread was started, I bumped it up to 84° when I leave. I usually just leave it there, and it'll sometimes be 81°-82° when I look at it, and I may or may not drop it to 80° to get it to come on. I think It's only run 1-1.5 weeks total this year. That's not hours; just the length of time it /may/ have fired up at some point.
 
I like AC so much I put a window unit in the little shop last year when we renovated it.

I bought generators so amongst other things I could run my house’s AC in a power outage.

We hit 100° here last week, allegedly. I didn’t struggle with it. Week before last I started turning my air down to 68° at night to sleep better.

If my AC (geothermal) died, I’d move the window unit from the shop to the house, or stay somewhere else until it was fixed.
 
Back when malls were a thing, you could spend significant time walking inside. It was terrible in the winter. Heat was cranked way up, and my hands felt like they swelled up from the heat on top of wearing winter clothes. Miserable experience.
 
ARIZONA

Is further explanation required? Fine.

Northern Arizona. AC and woodstove. In this state, you'll burn all day, and freeze all night. I've seen 60° temp swings, from 92° down to 32°.

Ac is nice, but I've done without it for nearly a decade.

Ain't no heat like woodstove heat.
 
87/117 now. AC is not an option. Other day my truck was left parked it the sun. It was like 160, 180 degrees or something inside. Every surface was burning hot. Didn’t really cool down in a 20 minute drive with the AC cranked. I will walk a block to park in the shade.

AC stays on probably more than half the year. Cool at night to sleep. During the day I wear nothing but shorts around the house to try to keep it warmer.
 
davidwyby said:
87/117 now. AC is not an option. Other day my truck was left parked it the sun. It was like 160, 180 degrees or something inside. Every surface was burning hot. Didn’t really cool down in a 20 minute drive with the AC cranked. I will walk a block to park in the shade.

AC stays on probably more than half the year. Cool at night to sleep. During the day I wear nothing but shorts around the house to try to keep it warmer.
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Mastermind would move.
 
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