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Posted by aka-SBM on August 28, 2006, 4:19 am
> The system was installed by a certified Tech from a company who has
> been around for about 30 years. The 5K was the equipment only that
> does not includ the labor , I believe the total bill was like $6741,
> the system is Concord Air which is a Lennox owned company. What I was
> looking for is someone who can give me a leg to stand on when the
> company comes out and try to pull the wool over my eyes by telling me
> the system is running at peak performance and doing what is suppose to
> do. Some info I can actually pull out and say he did you check this or
> that to make myself sound like I at least have a clue and not just say
> ummm OK.
>
> Or is it that a 13 Seer system is just not going to cool as well as a
> 10 Seer system? I live in Mississippi and it get on average around 95F
> here in the summer.
Properly sized and installed, they cool just like they are supposed to.
>
> Should this system be able to get the house down to 70 degress without
> running allday? Should the temperature increase 1 degree for each 1.5
> hour and top out at 78 and take until Midnight to finally get to 71F?
>
> What should the temperature be coming straight out of the vent, 60F-62F
> or 45-50F like my old system?
>
> I have heard that the new 13 Seer system are governed to only 75F when
> the outside temperature is 95+?
>
> Yes it is a 3 Ton system 1600 sq. house and two room have 12ft ceiling
> and the living room, dining room and kitchen are all open.
>
> I had also heard that 13 Seer system are known to have problems pulling
> the humidity out of the air for deep south states especially like in
> Florida and that the only way to have the system dehumidify is to use a
> larger system?
Gee....better tell that to the owners of an apartment complex that we just
put fourteen 14SEER units in. Upstairs and down, they had the damn things
down to 67F with plenty of condensate on a really sticky 98F day on thursday
during what they called, a performance eval...and btw...only 2 ton units.
>
> Anything info someone can confirm will help me get this show on the
> road and fixed.
>
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