XPost: alt.home.repair   
   From: bobnospam@gmail.com   
      
   On 1/24/2024 2:49 AM, micky wrote:   
   > My rental, a Toyota Yaris, has a simple heater/AC and sometimes, with   
   > the fan on 1, the lowest speed other than "stop", and the temp on   
   > coldest, it's too cold.   
   >   
   > The solution seems to be to move the temp towards warm, but when I do   
   > that, am I not using gasoline to run the AC and then mixing warm air   
   > with the cold air, that I just paid to create?   If saving money were my   
   > only consideration, shouldn't I keep the AC all the way on cold, but   
   > turn it on and off, like a furnace or AC unit at home works?  (Yes, of   
   > course the car is much smaller than the house and so I'd alternate   
   > between being too hot and being too cold, but this is an academic   
   > question.)   
   >   
   > What about my own car, that has an automatic setting which it says will   
   > keep the temp at whatever temp I set it to?  70, 68, 72, whatever. Does   
   > this work differently from the simple AC in the paragraph above? Doesn't   
   > it also mix warm air heated by engine coolant with cold air cooled by   
   > the AC, using extra gasoline?   
   >   
   > Isn't the only way to save money to set the AC all the way to the   
   > coldest, and turn it off if it gets too cold?   
   >   
   >   
   > BTW, when I was here 53 years ago, I dont' remember there ever being a   
   > hot day.  I was on foot, carrying a rucksack**, hitchhiking or walking   
   > around town.   
   >   
   > **A strange backpack with a metal frame but one unlike any other one   
   > I've seen before or since. The frame was not two parallel sides, but   
   > sort of a figure 8 (but not that narrow in the middle. I might still   
   > have it in the basement, but the  cloth is probably no good anymore.   
      
   You can change the setting, then watch the A/C compressor clutch cycle   
   on/off at different rates, I bet.   
      
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