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Posted by Only1Miller on July 4, 2006, 4:04 pm
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> This is what I hve read in other brands' owners manuals.
>
> Yes, the fan doesn't use much electricity, and I have always found it
> surprising that they named it that. I want the fan off when the AC is
> off because the constant noise is annoying. During the day, and even
> moreso during the night, becuase often it cools off enough at night
> that the AC turns off for the rest of the night, and one could have
> actual silence if the fan turned off too.
>
> I had a room ac in Brooklyn, and it didnt' turn the fan off between
> cycles, so I rewired it so it did. No cutting or soldering or
> anything was necessary. Because it had spade connectors, it was just
> a matter of taking 3 connections apart and putting them back together
> in a different order. The goal was to put the thermostat in front of
> both the fan and the compressor, instead of having the fan in front of
> the thermostat, so the fan wire is always hot when the AC is ON, and
> the fan runs all the time. If the fan is in exact parallel with the
> compressor, when one is on the other is on.
>
> Some might worry I suppose that that model wasn't designed for the fan
> to go off, but there's almost no difference and it worked just fine.
>
>
> The fan in an AC is not very useful for personal comfort, when the
> compressor isn't on, espcially when one is sleeping and isn't moving
> very far. What works well then is a slow fan blowing right on your
> body, or your face if the rest of your body is covered by a sheet or
> blanket**. For much less money and much less noise, one can have a
> much bigger breeze.
>
> The AC is rarely in a place where its vent louvers will direct the
> breeze at your body, and because of the convoluted path through the ac
> and the vents, the fan motor makes much more noise for what breeze is
> geenerated than does a plain table fan. I use a fan speed control,
> meant for a wall, but installed in a platic box that I place next to
> my bed, to lower the speed until I can't hear the fan but I can still
> feel the breeze. There are other ways to do this too. Please post a
> question if interested.
>
> **It was hard not to use any covers at all, but I learned in my late
> 20's or 30's to sleep without any sheet or blanket. It's much more
> comfortable in the summer time, unless the room is 70 or less. After
> that I switched to very lighweight pajamas, stopped wearing the top,
> and eventually, by my mid or late 30's, stopped wearing anything, with
> no cover. That makes an 80 degree room feel like a 70 degree room. I
> never have any 90 degree rooms at night, but I'm sure they would feel
> like 80.
>
> I stopped using a tent when I went camping, unless it was raining or
> there was a need for privacy. A thin piece of ripstop nylon's not
> going to stop a raccoon or a bear. (Just don't take uneaten food into
> the tent.) But I think I was 42 before I learned to sleep outside, on
> top of the sleeping bag or a blanket, without any clothes. A group I
> belonged to had chosen a park in Southern NJ to go camping. As a
> group we were able to reserve our own island, and everyone else seems
> to like to sleep near each other. When everyone had chosen a place
> and most people were asleep, I took a walk to a place either I had
> found earlier or there was enough moonlight, about 300 feet from the
> others and because it was humid finally had enough incentive to sleep
> naked with no covers for the whole night. I know no one saw me or I
> wouldn't have gotten a lot of teasing the next day.
I get the sleeping inside in the buff... but outside? Doing that
around here would cost you plenty in blood taken from hungry mosquitoes.
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