Airconditioning Dilemma
By Robert. Filed in General |Tags: common sense, humour
You work in an airconditioned office. The thermostat for the airconditioner is set to 23.5C. The thermometer gauge says that it is currently 24.2C. Do you:
A) Ignore it;
B) Close the door to the stairwell that all the cold air is escaping down;
C) Set the thermostat to 21C so that it gets colder. After all, it should go down to 21.7C, right?
Tuesday, September 20th 2005 at 1:08 PM |
Airconditioners these days seem to have higher and higher “hysteresis”, so they are always swinging hot to cold, yet maintaining the average.
I remember reading a study done that showed that humans were much more tolerable of high temperature and humidity variations when they were near open windows, with occasional breezes. In a sterile aircon office environment, even a small degree variation was enough to cause discomfort.
So perhaps the answer is open a window, if you can ! Or perhaps smaller offices. Who knows.
always switch to a laptop, put a pringles can wifi on your building and go and work at the regatta ! (everytime you break a build, have to chug a beer etc).
Saturday, January 7th 2006 at 11:48 AM |
Cold air escaping? Where to? It’s currently 2 degrees outside, where I am at the moment.
Unless you are somewhere in Australia or New Zealand, you picked the wrong time to post this…
Saturday, January 7th 2006 at 1:20 PM |
This was posted on in September, Tony. And yes, I’m in Australia.