I Am Afraid My Air Conditioner Is Going To Blow Up -How Hot Is It By You?

I have it set at 77 and it hasn't turned off since noon... It's stuck at 78 and 79...


Wow...

I'm in Los Angeles County along the coast...the area they call the South Bay along the Palos Verdes Pennisula.

thermometer; can't hardly breathe out there. No, getting a bit better since the sun's going down.
We keep ours at around 80 and it too has been going constantly.

My mom's 89... I can't afford to let it get too hot and I can't afford to let it break...

warm, quite warm. and wet, did I mention wet?

In MA we've had a variety of weather depending on where you are at....it's in the seventies now, it was colder yesterday, hotter and more humid a week ago.

It's only 90. Not bad for Sacramento. I feel ya, though. You probably live in one of the states with high humidity as well?

and mine is set at 78 - but mine has turned off.

-at least in my experience.

The temperature is in the mid 90's but the heat index has been in the 100's...

contact the energy company up there and ask to speak to the meter department and have someone go out and test the meter. Tell them you think it's incorrect. They'll check to see if someone is stealing electricity from you. Also, ask to speak to the Residential Department about energy saving and having someone go out to your house to check it. Explain your situation and tell them your plight. Someone will go out there and check everything. Make sure they do it for free! Tell them you cannot afford to pay a thing and you're in a serious bind! Who knows, cold air might be escaping, and there might be things you can do to keep it cooler inside and pay less. $315 is TOO MUCH.

thought "by you" was a Wisconsinism like "a horse a piece" (it comes from a bar dice game and means 6 of one a half dozen of the other) or calling a drinking fountain a "bubbler."

high 90s out for over a week (IL). Once or twice I was able to turn it off at night or for a few hours in the early morning. Air conditioning - one of the greatest invention of modern world. Electricity bill - one of the worst.

it has been sitting on his desk for a week now......

We've had miserable heat and humidity, and as my husband explains, AC units can only cool to about 20 degrees cooler than the outside ambient temperature plus humidity. The more humid it is the harder it is for the unit to get the moisture out and cool the inside air. I wouldn't worry too much about it, you can't expect miracles from your AC unit when it's like an oven outside.

But you can oversize your air condition and cool down more than 20 degrees but it gets expensive...

Once the inside air is cool, it recycles and can cool it down another 20 degrees, and so on. You must not have enough air conditioning for the house. Or, if you are dealing with a swamp cooler, this could also keep you from getting what you want. But since you are in Orlando, surely you are not using a swamp cooler.

The heat overwhelms the air condition...It's a battle between the heat and machine... I drink plenty of cold water...

It's been in the mid 90's all week. We have a dehumidifier in the lower level that's been pulling out about a gallon a day. That seems to take some strain off the AC, but it's still running a good bit of the time.

You can cool things down until the amount of
heat sneaking into your house (through the walls,
through the roof, through the windows, and through
air infiltration *MATCHES* the amount of heat that
your air conditioner is pumping out.

So if you have a, say, 6,000 BTU air conditioner,
then things can get cooler and cooler until you
reach the point where 6,000 BTU are leaking back
in; at that point, it's as cool as it's going to
get and the AC runs continuously just to "run in
place".

The other issue, of course, is humidity. The less
humidity, the better you'll feel, even if it's
still kind of warm. And humidity control is basically
just an issue of air (humidity) infiltration. Seal
things up nice and tight and the AC will be able to
drain more humidity out of your interior air. But
again, the decrease stops when infiltration (and
the humidity from your own exhalation and sweat!)
matches the amount that the AC can condense.

If you like, you can find web sites that will help
you calculate how big your AC must be for any
given house design and indoor/outdoor air temperatures.

Tesha

It won't blow up but it might blow up your bank account when the 'lectric bill comes...
:shrug:

going all day and night. Atlanta's burning!!!!

it was 99+ this week with the heat index hitting as high as 113. Last night, after midnight, while I was walking the dog, I felt the most wonderful cool breeze moving in. It was fresh and clean, sending the heavy overcast scudding away. After that, the temp dropped significantly and it only got to be about 83 today with hardly any humidity. I hope that breeze visits every one of you soon!

Not a cloud in the sky.

A beautiful night for a concert in the Park.

Today & tomorrow are only in the upper 90's, a cool wave! :eyes:

tomorrow back into the mid 90`s and wet

It's going to cool down overnight. I wouldn't post this except my sister used to drive me crazy e-mailing me the temperatures in Houston during January and February.

We go though 6-10 weeks of hell every winter, but I think the rest of the year is great. I think it's hell because I can't stand the cold, but other people like it.

right now in upstate NY. It is going to be one of the best chances to watch the night sky.

even with hot flashes it is cold in NW WA

I'm in Seattle and it's pleasantly cool...

www.scarebaby.com

Everyone will wonder why you are walking around with wet ears, but you won't care, because you'll be cooool.

It's not hot here in Honolulu, strangely. There's a hurricane that's passing south of us (hopefully) because the cool northern waters are pushing it away. Wonder how much of that cool is melting polar ice. Wonder how badly we'll get hit by the many hurricanes that used to be pushed south, when the ice to the north is gone.

Le sigh.

Anyway put icewater on your ears. You'll be amazed.

Do you have ceiling fans? I know a lot of non southern people think they're tacky, but they will keep your bills down and the house cool in the summer. If you have curtains, close them. The darker you keep your house in the summer, the cooler it will be. Like I said in another thread, this is how my mother keeps her house, with pathetic insulation, cool in the summer and her bill in the lower $100s.
Duckie

A lot of Florida was swamps, orange groves, or brush so not many trees...

And the developers used to just run em over because it was quicker...

Well, I hope it gets better. Fall is a month and a half way. I guess that's a bright side.
Duckie

That kind of heat at home would drain all my energy. :shrug: :shrug:

it is really nice at the moment - cool air, low humidity. The AC is off and my windows are open. It's been a hot summer with more than one dangerously hot day but we have had a few cool nights, like tonight.

I stayed at Charleston Place twice...

I'd love to go back...

Plants that were flourishing from all of the rain and cool temperatures are now feeling the heat. We usually hit 100 before August and feel pretty lucky that we have had lovely weather until now.

can save you $$ over time.

Also check the compressor - when the a/c is working that hard, they tend to freeze up, and sometimes they get crushed.

I had it serviced three weeks ago...

Hey, I could be like Richard Nixon and run the a c and the fireplace simultaneously...

the colder I like it ...

Perhaps it's because I preserve better. :)

But we get about a dozen cold Winter days...

When I went to grad school in Tallahassee it got down to 8 degrees...

I'm not crazy ya know!

Not a big fan of humidity. Or heat. Or funky air (although I'm sorry to report we get some funk here - from China they say (?).

We headed up to the mountains to get warm. It's 73 outside now down from 82 earlier in the day.

It's weird to be talking about global warming in a sweatshirt and warm-up pants in the middle of summer. :eyes:

Mz Pip
:dem:

with three pairs of socks on.

I've got a fleece vest I add to the sweatshirt when I have to leave the house.

Mz Pip
:dem:

Green Mountains of Vermont it is 67 and sky is clear...great night to go out to watch the meteor showers in about an hour.

And it looks like Houston is headed for more of the same for at least the next week. With really hostile humidity. The AC hasn't turned off all day. :(

On edit: forgot to mention it's 81 in the house. The AC can't keep up at all.

The high today was 101 plus the index. I just have a window unit (came with the apartment) and one portable room a/c (that I bought last year). both of them have not stopped running for a week. the weather has just been too hot.

Normally it cools down some by 8:30/9pm. But not this week. though it does look like we are headed for a cold front with the highs only being in the 90s next week.

And more humid every year. "Dry heat" my *ss!

If it keeps up, the record of 19 days in a row of 90 or above temps could be broken.

And school starts next week. x(

...along with a Triple Black Death Ozone Alert.

Those popping noises outside must be birds exploding.

Although it gets a lot hotter just a few miles inland. Our house doesn't even have air conditioning.