A/C Capacity
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Acura says the A/C can cool a mid-sized house, but I can't find anything anywhere which indicates its cooling capacity. Does anyone know how many BTU it's equivalent to?
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Originally posted by Nick:
Acura says the A/C can cool a mid-sized house, but I can't find anything anywhere which indicates its cooling capacity. Does anyone know how many BTU it's equivalent to?
Acura says the A/C can cool a mid-sized house, but I can't find anything anywhere which indicates its cooling capacity. Does anyone know how many BTU it's equivalent to?
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A friend's Dad who has been in the HVAC business for many years told me most car A/C units are about 5 ton units and my houst, about 1800 square feet, has a 3 1/2 ton unit. Car's are just so thermally inefficient with all the windows and thin insulation so they need massive A/C units to be able to cool.
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Originally posted by Nick:
Acura says the A/C can cool a mid-sized house, but I can't find anything anywhere which indicates its cooling capacity. Does anyone know how many BTU it's equivalent to?
Acura says the A/C can cool a mid-sized house, but I can't find anything anywhere which indicates its cooling capacity. Does anyone know how many BTU it's equivalent to?
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Originally posted by imax:
Hey, all I know is that I have a two bedroom condo with no A/C and I use the 3.2TL-S to cool my condo and it works fine. I just set the TL-S' climate control and we're very comfortable; and I live in South Florida. Terrible gas mileage though.
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Hey, all I know is that I have a two bedroom condo with no A/C and I use the 3.2TL-S to cool my condo and it works fine. I just set the TL-S' climate control and we're very comfortable; and I live in South Florida. Terrible gas mileage though.
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Yeah me too...just drive the car into the living room, close all the doors and window in the house. Start your engine, open the doors on the car and crank up the A/C. You're house will definitely get cool eventually but you'll be dead from the carbon monoxide coming out of your exhaust.
I'm not kidding either. It really works.
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Originally posted by ucla107:
LOL.. yeah I dont think there are BTU ratings on car A/Cs
LOL.. yeah I dont think there are BTU ratings on car A/Cs
So we looked at the base model and added a tape player and, since we live in Houston, an AC. The AC was a dealer-installed option and the price was $1200.
My dad questioned why the AC costs so much, and the salesman said that the air conditioner had 1200 BTUs. Then he commented that it had more BTUs than a Cadillac (and my dad asked him why it needed such a big AC in such a small car). Anyway, I'm sure it was all BS on the salesmans part, but I guess some people think that's how car ACs are rated.
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I use the AC in my TL-S to cool my boat. I run a pipe from the car interior to the boat cabin and drive along beside it when we're out in the boat. It's really good if someones water skiing, twice the wake.
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Originally posted by tea elle:
Yeah me too...just drive the car into the living room, close all the doors and window in the house. Start your engine, open the doors on the car and crank up the A/C. You're house will definitely get cool eventually but you'll be dead from the carbon monoxide coming out of your exhaust.
I'm not kidding either. It really works.
Yeah me too...just drive the car into the living room, close all the doors and window in the house. Start your engine, open the doors on the car and crank up the A/C. You're house will definitely get cool eventually but you'll be dead from the carbon monoxide coming out of your exhaust.
I'm not kidding either. It really works.
Actually it will only make your house hotter, it's like open the frige...
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