Reports results from an air conditioning contractor survey of residential air conditioning sizing methods in Florida. Results indicate that 33% of the respondents use the Manual J procedure, 34.4% use software, 24.2% use square footage, and 8.4% use other estimates. A room-by-room method of sizing is used by 52%. Some 38.5% say they have purposely oversized units, and 63.6% indicated they would use a split central unit smaller than 15,000 Btu/h if available.
KEYWORDS: year 1995, domestic, air conditioning, surveys, sizing, oversizing, calculating, questionnaires, USA
Citation: ASHRAE Trans. 1995, Vol.101, Part 2, Paper number 3893, 149-162, 10 figs., 6 refs.
Product Details
- Published:
- 1995
- File Size:
- 1 file , 1.4 MB
- Product Code(s):
- D-16895
