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Author: bcampbell Created: 5/6/2008 8:56 AM

Do you have rooms that are to HOT! Do you have rooms that are to COOL! Are you uncomfortable in your own home?

Tuesday, May 06, 2008

Efficiency in heating and cooling comes from control and monitoring. To make a heating and cooling system function at its maximum efficiency, you must break the system down into as many small systems as economically feasible and reduce the amount of ductwork by as much as possible. Think about it like the lights in a house. Imagine that your home only had one light switch controlling all the lights in the home. Although it would be convenient it would not be efficient. This is predominately how we heat and cool our homes. Most people go to a single thermostat on the wall and set it to a temperature that can only be monitored from that single location. Imagine the inconvenience to the occupants of the home if the analogy of the single light switch were really true. Now imagine that the heating and cooling system functioned like the light switches in most of our current homes. Each room would have its own thermostat for the comfort of that space. The occupant wo...