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Posted by on October 18, 2007, 2:19 am
> Noon-Air wrote:
>
> >
> >>On 5 Oct 2007 13:00:28 -0400, nicksanspam@ece.villanova.edu wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>I like the "front door rule" :-)
> >>>
> >>>http://www.fsec.ucf.edu/en/publications/html/FSEC-PF-289-95/index.htm
> >>>
> >>>Nick
> >>
> >>One of the most telling bits of info is the "reasons for oversizing".
> >>The most common reason is because the customer requested it.
> >
> >
> > This is done strictly out of ignorance.
> >
> >
> >>That
> >>suggests to me that in the real world the Manual J and other "correct"
> >>ways of sizing are too often giving undersized results and the
> >>customers have learned from past experience that they need a bigger
> >>unit then the "experts" tell them they need.
> >
> >
> > This is only because the customer is trying to get the system to do
things
> > that its not designed for
> >
>
> That's the customer's choice to make. Who are you to say what he should
> be able to call upon it to do? He's the one paying.
>
> >
> >>Almost every place I've
> >>lived in has had undersized cooling.
> >
> >
> > Probably not.....a correctly sized system is designed to *MAINTAIN* the
> > average comfort levels at the design conditions....not bring the temp in
a
> > 100 degree home down to 70 degrees in 30 minutes. Its not gonna happen.
> >
>
> If that's what the customer wants, and he's willing to pay for it, and
> it's not illegal, then who made YOU king?
CJT if you had a clue, you would know it's not expected from a system that's
correctly sized.
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