Podcast episode ("293. Is a bigger unit the answer?") hosted by Derek Cole discussing HVAC equipment sizing. The episode explains why oversized AC/heating units harm dehumidification and comfort (short cycling: frequent on/off reduces moisture removal), increases startup energy draw, and can be limited by undersized ductwork. The host also promotes the Healthy Home Challenge (free five-day series) and SimmonsOneHour.com CTAs.
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A bigger unit is not necessarily better for your home if the unit is too large.
So we, we go to your house.
We do a load calculation on the house, okay, Say this house needs a 3 ton unit, needs a 4 ton unit, 5 ton, whatever. So if you need a 3 ton unit, it does you no good to put in a five ton unit. And the reason is because you start having a problem dehumidifying that space. Especially in the summertime this time. Well, in the summer, that time of year where you have humidity problems, you have trouble dehumidifying the home because it's not staying on long enough to. It's cooling the house down, but it's not dehumidifying the house, if that makes sense. It's kind of start and stop, start, stop, comes on, gets it to 75, turns back off. The problem with that is you're not dehumidifying. You're not getting the moisture out of the air. So even though it's a 75 degree home, the humidity is so high it feels cold, clammy. You might have felt that in some houses before. It feels kind of feels cool, but it feels kind of weird. It's because the unit's too big for that space. So if it's not dehumidifying, I put it like this. All right, so let's relate to a car. So you go on a car ride and it's 95 degrees outside. So when you first get into the car, you're blasting the AC. Right. As you start driving for like 30 minutes, an hour, you turn the AC down and then eventually you actually turn it up a little bit because it's too cold. Right. The reason is because the actual the slower the fan is going, the more time it has over that coil, the more dehumidifies and the cooler the air feels. That makes sense. So the slower the fan, the more time it has over the coil and the cooler the air will be because it's extracting more heat and more humidity out of the air than if it was on speed. Five at high. Make sense? So that is why you need a properly sized unit for your house. Because too big, yes, it's cooling the house down quickly, but you're going on, off, on, off. Which therefore is affecting your electric bill. Because the most power that unit pulls is on startup. So you want it to run a long time. You don't want it cutting on and off as well as you are fitting the motor and the board. And everything in the unit is not made to go on off. On off is made to run for a period of time. It's just like miles per gallon. Your car, obviously it's more efficient to go on the highway or interstate than it would be to be in stop and go traffic. You get more miles per gallon if you go on the interstate than if you live in the city. Same principle with your unit. It runs efficiently the longer it runs. And it's made to condition that space. So if the unit is too big, it's going to be on and off, on and off. And if we change out a unit and it's not matching up to the existing duct system, it doesn't matter if we put a 20 ton unit out there. If you get a 3 ton duct system, it's only providing you 3 ton of air in the house. Make sense? So the unit cannot be bigger than the duct because it would do no good.
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