when you set the AC to a lower temperature, are you turning it UP or turning it DOWN? - intellectual and philosophical debate with @Forgetful Gynn

[Lurker]

@Forgetful Gynn is under this retarded notion that you turn the AC DOWN because you're turning the temperature down, but i counter with the far more correct answer which is that you in fact turn the AC UP, because you're turning UP the intensity of the AC unit

DEBATE

first thread btw, definitely worth it

 

[FramerGirl420]

Gynn is correct. Debate over. Lock thread.

 

[Forgetful Gynn]

You turn the temperature down.

 

[Lurker]

You turn the temperature down.

your mother.

 

[Michael Janke]

turning the temperature down equals more power, therefore the AC unit is being turned up.
common vernacular includes.
it's hot as fuck, turn up the AC
crank up the AC, it's hot as hell.

 

[PFM]

You're "turning the thermostat down"

 

[KingFriko]

You don't turn a thermostat "up" or "down" as much as you adjust it. You don't "turn" anything. Signed, HVAC guy

 

[Neurotypical Mantis]

turn down for what

 

[Lurker]

You're "turning the thermostat down"

You don't turn a thermostat "up" or "down" as much as you adjust it. You don't "turn" anything. Signed, HVAC guy

owned

 

[PFM]

You don't turn a thermostat "up" or "down" as much as you adjust it. You don't "turn" anything. Signed, HVAC guy

No knuckle dragging HVAC guy is going to tell me how I manipulate my thermostat

 

[Osmosis Jones]

The only time I hear "turn down" the AC is when someone is bitching that it's too cold.

 

[Lurker]

The only time I hear "turn down" the AC is when someone is bitching that it's too cold.

see this nigga fuckin gets it

 

[Wintersun]

Turning up the AC means increasing the output. Turning it down means you are decreasing the output.

 

[KingFriko]

You better watch your fucking mouth. We don't fuck around. The second I find out where you live I'm telling those HVAC guys where you live what you said so you can cook in the heat and die in the cold. You won't be calling me a knuckle dragger when your family has no hot water... BITCHASS!

No knuckle dragging HVAC guy is going to tell me how I manipulate my thermostat

 

[Forgetful Gynn]

Turning up the AC means increasing the output. Turning it down means you are decreasing the output.

Turning up the AC means increasing the temperature. Turning it down means you are decreasing the temperature.

 

[BiggerChungus]

Do you raise your car window down?

 

[Forgetful Gynn]

Do you raise your car window down?

No but on my car's ac cold is down.

 

[Wally]

You turn down the temperature, you turn up the AC. You turn on the furnace, you turn up the temperature.

t. have an abomination of a AC/Heat Pump/Furnace/Water Heater the size of a room.

 

[Big Fat Frog]

The AC is inherently negative. Therefore when you “increase” or “turn up” the AC, you’re “increasing” or “turning up” the negative value. So when it’s hotter than a well-digger’s ass in the car and you turn up the AC, you’re adding colder air or taking away heat.

Also you never say “turn up the AC” when it’s cold and you want it warm. You say, “crank up the HEAT.”

 

[Unpaid Emotional Labourer]

Where is the unit located, and what sort?

If central A/C in a home or hotel, turn it down, run it down, all these things mean make it colder. It isn’t the blowing intensity that is impacting you with central unless you’re putting your face at a vent. It’s the overall refrigeration. Sure you can run “just the fan” on central, but that’s more about white noise.

If a window unit or in a car, one is impacted both by refrigeration and intensity of the fan action. And those are controlled separately, usually. There, turn it down would probably mean make it blow less hard. Especially in the car.