Many people choose to keep their A/C running as much as possible during the Summer months. They may leave it on when they leave the house just to have a nice cool place to come home to after work but leaving the A/C on all the time is just not a good idea. You burn excess energy, hike up your power bill and lower your body’s ability to deal with the heat outside of the home. What need to do to have a positive impact on the aforementioned issues is to turn up the heat on the unit.

One of the reasons that many A/C units run so often, is due to their temperature setting being set to low. Try setting the A/C unit temperature at around 75 degrees. This could save you up to ten dollars on your power bill. You can also try playing with the temperature setting, going even higher depending on your location and the environments weather.

If you’re still not convinced that turning up the heat can be a good thing for your local environment, take into consideration the power drain that cooling your home can cause. The standard central A/C systems in a home can suck up 3500 Watts of power and when you consider the amount of homes that run central cooling in the Summer that’s a huge toll on the local grid systems. A standard window A/C unit can use between 1400-900 Watts of power depending on their size which also adds up to a large pull from the local grid system.

The lower you run temps that your run your A/C unit on the more power drain you cause, the higher your power bill will spike and the more you deprive your body of fresh air and the ability to regulate heat.

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