An Air Conditioner Adventure

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Originally Posted by bart

Yes, I was going to ask you whether these devices are noisy.

So far, we haven't felt the need for A/C in our house, except for my practice, where I've had it since '16.
It's on a couple of weeks per year there, during the hottest days.

But with the heat waves of the last 2, 3 summers - we went up to 106F! - we might need A/C in the whole house in the future.
The bedrooms were hot during the 2 heat waves we've had in June and July! (About 90-93F).

106! That's hot! I'd consider A/C for your home, definitely.

My living room's a relatively small room at 14 x 18.5". And the acoustics are good in this building; several musicians live/have lived here. I can hear the tiniest click or pop when I play a record (haven't done that in a while). I'd say the new Friedrich is a bit louder than my previous one, but then I also have it on maximum fan speed plus it's a more powerful unit (15,500 BTU vs. 12,000). I always turned the fan down when I was going to play my system before, and things were fine. I haven't tried that yet with the new unit.

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Originally Posted by multiham

Growing up my dad would never let us turn on the a/c unless the inside temperature was over 90F. Most kids would try to trick their parents into letting them stay home by warming up a thermometer so it looked like they had a fever. I, on the other hand, was trying different things to try and warm up a thermometer on the wall so that it would hit 90 and we could turn on a/c!

Cracking up!!!!

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Something of a solution to the dilemma of being too cold when the A/C is on full bore and is shooting straight at me on my couch. I engaged the oscillation or "swing" feature for the fan and that helps a bit.

Maybe I won't need air conditioning today, as it's supposed to be only upper 70s, maybe 80. If it's not humid I could open the window and use the window fan in the kitchen on exhaust to get a flow-through effect.