AC with Cieling Fan
Posted On Thursday, August 14th, 2008 By Ravi
The electricity department headed by Arcot Veerasamy in India is propagating a strange sort of message these days. To save power, let your Fans run with your AC, and that way the air circulation will be better and therefore your power bills will be low. What a foolish message to speread out. Well, a person induvidually might be smart and intelligent, but collectively, people are dumb. Especially Indians.
When you let the Ceiling Fan running along with the AC, the air conditioning compressor have to take the trouble of cooling the heat produced by the Fan, as well, and the fan’s air flow will be vertical while the ACs airflow will be horizontal, and that would disrupt the airflow completely, and the room will not be evenly cooled, and that will make the thermostat switch malfunction, and thus one part of your room will be really cool while another part would be completely hot.
Doing so would only waste even more electricity. The best way to save electricity is to set the AC at 24 degrees and let it run without switching it off, and thus the room temperature will be maintained in 24, and the AC would not have to take pains in managint the fluctuating temeratures. if you really want to save power, make sure that your room is well insulated and that no air leaks out, and make sure that you do not open or close the doors or windows often when the AC is running.