john in la
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We have a small (about 6000 btu) A/C mounted in the wall of my bedroom.
I like it a little cooler while sleeping and with the kids gone it allows us to turn the central unit almost off at night.
It has electronic controls with a remote and a LED temperature display.
When you set it on the economy setting the fan goes off when the compressor goes off.
Problem is if you set it on 68.
It will come on and cool the room to 68 and then shut off.
But the temperature display and I assume the thermostat will continue to fall.
I have seen the temperature display in the high 30's or low 40's when the room is at 70 and it is above 70 outside.
This causes the unit not to come back on when the room warms up.
Now here is the weird part.
If you manually turn it on or set it on cool where the fan runs all the time and just the compressor shuts off the temperature display and thermostat work perfectly.
It has me stumped.
In short if the fan is on and drawing air threw the unit the thermostat and display work but if you shut the fan off and the unit is just sitting there it reads really cold unreasonable temperatures.
I like it a little cooler while sleeping and with the kids gone it allows us to turn the central unit almost off at night.
It has electronic controls with a remote and a LED temperature display.
When you set it on the economy setting the fan goes off when the compressor goes off.
Problem is if you set it on 68.
It will come on and cool the room to 68 and then shut off.
But the temperature display and I assume the thermostat will continue to fall.
I have seen the temperature display in the high 30's or low 40's when the room is at 70 and it is above 70 outside.
This causes the unit not to come back on when the room warms up.
Now here is the weird part.
If you manually turn it on or set it on cool where the fan runs all the time and just the compressor shuts off the temperature display and thermostat work perfectly.
It has me stumped.
In short if the fan is on and drawing air threw the unit the thermostat and display work but if you shut the fan off and the unit is just sitting there it reads really cold unreasonable temperatures.