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

[Crazedking]

Both? You adjust the thermostats of your AC unit to the temperature you want the room in. It will increase or decrease its efficiency to meet that temperature.

 

[Lurker]

my husband insists, wrongly, that you turn it DOWN because AKSHUALLY you never turn UP the intensity of the AC, rather you just maintain the room temperature or something

he's from a family of people in HVAC.

however, he is still wrong and i am correct

 

[𝕺𝖑' 𝕯𝖎𝖗𝖙𝖞 𝕱𝖆𝖙𝖘𝖔]

Idk I just wanna smoke weed

 

[Wintersun]

my husband insists, wrongly, that you turn it DOWN because AKSHUALLY you never turn UP the intensity of the AC, rather you just maintain the room temperature or something

he's from a family of people in HVAC.

however, he is still wrong and i am correct

Which requires longer fan usage, or in a car, higher intensity fan speed. Same thing with a computer. You're still increasing the output the lower you dial the temperature, so you are still turning up the air conditioning.

 

[Vecr]

The AC heats up the outside, so the more you run it the more "turned up" it is. QED.

 

[Osmosis Jones]

It's not complicated. Turn it up = I want more. Turn it down = I want less. You turn up/crank/blast/max the AC when you want it to be colder. You turn it down/off when you're getting too cold.

If you're hot, you want more AC. Turn it up.

If you're cold, you want less AC. Turn it down.

If you fail to observe this fact then please face the wall

 

[ToroidalBoat]

both?

(quantum physics watness)

 

[Forgetful Gynn]

my husband insists, wrongly, that you turn it DOWN because AKSHUALLY you never turn UP the intensity of the AC, rather you just maintain the room temperature or something

he's from a family of people in HVAC.

however, he is still wrong and i am correct

Look bud, nobody refers to the internal whoozits of the machine when they say turn it up or down or on or off, they mean what it effects. Does pre-heating an oven do anything other than now-heating it? When we say "it's raining" do we refer to a single cloud, the whole sky, the planet, what?

You turn down the temperature. That is the relevant function of the AC regardless of how it achieves it.

 

[SPhobos]

down. the ac might not even come into play if it's in a large building with modern controls. a bunch of sweaty hogs making the air all stuffy and hot might trigger cooling in say, a big city skyscraper in the winter, and it's just going to bring in outside air

 

[Lurker]

Look bud, nobody refers to the internal whoozits of the machine when they say turn it up or down or on or off, they mean what it effects. Does pre-heating an oven do anything other than now-heating it? When we say "it's raining" do we refer to a single cloud, the whole sky, the planet, what?

You turn down the temperature. That is the relevant function of the AC regardless of how it achieves it.

NO

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

If you're setting a temperature as on a thermostat then you're turning it down.
If you're increasing power to it, like just making it blow faster like the settings on a fan, then you're turning it up.