Anyones House Central Air run 95% of the day

[JSB99]

Mine runs all the time on hot days too and at most weather above 85 degrees. The other day it was 93 degrees out and the thermostat didn't get below 76 degrees. God damn hot basement so the air rises.

Something you can do to help your AC work much better is to shade your outside compressor. It'll help dissipate the heat better. Just find something you can use to create some shade.

 

[Meast21]

Something you can do to help your AC work much better is to shade your outside compressor. It'll help dissipate the heat better. Just find something you can use to create some shade.

Thanks guys... The outside compressor is in the shade from 12:15pm on.

 

[RonnieB2]

Not talking about grow room central air, I'm talking about entire house central Air.. My house is hot and from 11am til 11pm it will run 11.5 hours and be off for the other 30 mins, is this normal? Is this bad for the central air system??

Problem is my basement is warm and warm air rises to the main level. I got central air down there too on all the time and on 90 degree days its still 77 degrees down there with the central air running 95% of the time.

Your unit needs service

 

[JimmiP]

My house is the definition of poorly insulated. I live in a house that was built in 1800 and I have some exterior walls that have no insulation in them and others with just broken up fragments of old newspaper.

Mine was too. New than yours though- 1920. But we found old newspapers in some walls too. I have actually stuck a few newspapers and beer bottles/cans in a few interior walls of other houses. But like yours, the ones we found in this house were used to insulate. Our home is being reinsulated one room at a time. So it's still on the list.

 

[JimmiP]

But, To the OP, like Richard Drysift said, change your filter often. We change ours every two weeks now in our house. It helps a lot.

 

[Renfro]

Something you can do to help your AC work much better is to shade your outside compressor. It'll help dissipate the heat better. Just find something you can use to create some shade.

I dunno if anyone has mentioned it but they sell those kits that fit on your condenser coil and hook up to the hose spigot and is activated when the compressor is kicked on by the 24 VAC signal. It then mists the condenser with cold water making it much more efficient on hot days.

 

[Meast21]

I dunno if anyone has mentioned it but they sell those kits that fit on your condenser coil and hook up to the hose spigot and is activated when the compressor is kicked on by the 24 VAC signal. It then mists the condenser with cold water making it much more efficient on hot days.

@Renfro what do you know about blower motor speeds? My living room is so loud, I'm thinking of dropping the blowing speed to quiet the noise some.

 

[J232]

I dunno if anyone has mentioned it but they sell those kits that fit on your condenser coil and hook up to the hose spigot and is activated when the compressor is kicked on by the 24 VAC signal. It then mists the condenser with cold water making it much more efficient on hot days.

Makes total sense, just like on your vette a wet cooler pulls more heat then air. Not sure how many transmissions I have rebuilt because people bypass there liquid cooler for a HD towing cooler... like run both lol. I’m looking into that misting the condenser thing, thanks for that tip.

 

[Rakin]

My AC never runs that much but when the temperature is getting down to teens and single digit temps my heat pump will run almost the entire night without shutting down.

 

[Renfro]

@Renfro what do you know about blower motor speeds? My living room is so loud, I'm thinking of dropping the blowing speed to quiet the noise some.

Well it sorta defeats the purpose of what the blower is trying to accomplish. If there isn't enough air moving over the evaporator coil then it can freeze up a block of ice.

Generally central air blowers have 3 speeds. It would be as simple as switching the connections on the control board. I still don't recommend it though. Just turn the TV up louder.

 

[Meast21]

Well it sorta defeats the purpose of what the blower is trying to accomplish. If there isn't enough air moving over the evaporator coil then it can freeze up a block of ice.

Generally central air blowers have 3 speeds. It would be as simple as switching the connections on the control board. I still don't recommend it though. Just turn the TV up louder.

Turning the Tv makes my tinnitus worse too. My goodman 2 speed blower I'm pretty sure is 100-1400cfm's and is prob on 1400 now.. Maybe I will try to turn it down to 1100-1200... Furnace is a lot lower when it reaches the 2nd quieter speed so I've been keeping it on 95% of the time. Basement is around 75 degrees bc of this so thats good too.

 

[Meast21]

Makes total sense, just like on your vette a wet cooler pulls more heat then air. Not sure how many transmissions I have rebuilt because people bypass there liquid cooler for a HD towing cooler... like run both lol. I’m looking into that misting the condenser thing, thanks for that tip.

This might raise humidity too, idk.

 

[Meast21]

Well it sorta defeats the purpose of what the blower is trying to accomplish. If there isn't enough air moving over the evaporator coil then it can freeze up a block of ice.

Generally central air blowers have 3 speeds. It would be as simple as switching the connections on the control board. I still don't recommend it though. Just turn the TV up louder.

I'm def moving that vent run 15 feet. Now the vent run is 3 feet and right below me, the main reason its loud.

 

[J232]

This might raise humidity too, idk.

Condenser is outside, on a split, spraying it won’t affect indoor humidity, just help pull heat out of the refrigerant.

I'm def moving that vent run 15 feet. Now the vent run is 3 feet and right below me, the main reason its loud.

Are you using ribbed ducting?

 

[Renfro]

Turning the Tv makes my tinnitus worse too. My goodman 2 speed blower I'm pretty sure is 100-1400cfm's and is prob on 1400 now.. Maybe I will try to turn it down to 1100-1200... Furnace is a lot lower when it reaches the 2nd quieter speed so I've been keeping it on 95% of the time. Basement is around 75 degrees bc of this so thats good too.

I bet some noise cancelling head phones would go a long way with your tinnitus. I have a pair of sennheiser ones, they are very comfortable and work amazing but the battery doesn't last as long as I would like before it needs recharged.

This might raise humidity too, idk.

No. That's happening outdoors.

 

[Meast21]

I bet some noise cancelling head phones would go a long way with your tinnitus. I have a pair of sennheiser ones, they are very comfortable and work amazing but the battery doesn't last as long as I would like before it needs recharged.


No. That's happening outdoors.

If I am in a quiet room, I can usually barely hear it unless its a bad day. Problem is I don't want to sit in silence like a mute.....On another note. I just started watching Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich on Netflix and its pretty good so far. 4 parts about 55 mins each.

 

[Meast21]

I bet some noise cancelling head phones would go a long way with your tinnitus. I have a pair of sennheiser ones, they are very comfortable and work amazing but the battery doesn't last as long as I would like before it needs recharged.


No. That's happening outdoors.

Can you hook those headphones up to the TV some how??

 

[Renfro]

Can you hook those headphones up to the TV some how??

They are bluetooth.

 

[kmog33]

I bet some noise cancelling head phones would go a long way with your tinnitus. I have a pair of sennheiser ones, they are very comfortable and work amazing but the battery doesn't last as long as I would like before it needs recharged.


No. That's happening outdoors.

Tinnitus is psychological though right? so I doubt anything external is going to help much. People used to essentially destroy their eardrums trying to get rid of the sound only to discover being deaf didn’t do anything to help with what they were hearing that was bothering them as far as I remember from my psychology of audio class in college lol.

 

[Renfro]

Tinnitus is psychological though right? so I doubt anything external is going to help much. People used to essentially destroy their eardrums trying to get rid of the sound only to discover being deaf didn’t do anything to help with what they were hearing that was bothering them as far as I remember from my psychology of audio class in college lol.

I just figured if the constant white noise was making it worse then noise cancelling headphones would eliminate that factor.