On Thu, 02 Aug 2007 19:22:16 +0200, Mxsmanic wrote:
>William Black writes:
>
>> European air conditioners are the same as everyone else's as far as I can
>> see.
>
>European air conditioners are not generally designed for high output, since
>traditionally the amount of cooling required has been small, and of course
>Europeans are too poor to pay for significant amounts of electricity (but not
>too poor to pay for vast amounts of fuel oil to overheat their homes in
>winter).
Said the resident penniless American still waiting for a personal economic
miracle.
>
>> Modern AC equipment does tend to have a thermostat. You set the room
>> tempture to what you want.
>
>Portable air conditioners usually don't have that. You can set an approximate
>temperature but it is sensed in the A/C, not in the room.
Only an idiot wastes his money year after year on a portable A/C when he knows
it is no good.
>
>> That must be fun if you want to boil a kettle and cook and have a computer
>> switched on all at the same time, never mind an AC...
>
>I don't boil kettles or cook in the main room of the apartment. The
>appliances are on separate circuits.
>
>> You can run a 7,000 BTU split AC from a 16 amp connection...
>
>I don't remember anything about BTUs.
Ignorance never stopped you looking up something before.
7,000 BTU is 2K Watts
>
>> But AC prices in Europe are down, way down. You can blame the cold wet
>> summer in the UK for that.
>
>They are still expensive for me.
because you are too lazy to earn money.
--
Martin
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