ReplyIt would depend on your outdoor temp, your indoor temp, what you have your unit set for on the t-stat, sq ft of your home, size of your unit! Need more info.
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I hear a lot about short cycling, but never what amount of time it is. For example would 30 mins on and 50 mins off be short cycling in a/c mode. Can you guy's give me some specifics on time frames? Thanks in advance.
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It would depend on your outdoor temp, your indoor temp, what you have your unit set for on the t-stat, sq ft of your home, size of your unit! Need more info.
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short cycling is starting a utilitization device, most commonly a motor, more often than its manufacturer's ratings, because the windings do not have time to cool down from the starting current surge.
usually the limit is 4 starts per hour, or once ea 15 min. seems like RoBoTeq stated specific values 2 y ago --
check Copeland --
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How do you know its a copeland, how can you make any claims with out the above requested knowledge?????
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just 45 years as a trained, practicing Electrical Engineer, with residential & manufacturing facilities responsibility.
How many 100- 1000 hp motors have you been responsible for in startup & maintenance? how many production lines have you kept running? some involving 800 workers? how about getting a whole mfg plant back up & running after a power outage?
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