Whether your air conditioner needs water depends entirely on what kind of unit you have. Central air, window units, and most mini-splits don’t need water to run; they cool your home with refrigerant and only produce water as a byproduct.…
A 1.5HP air conditioner cools roughly 50% more space than a 1HP unit, but the number printed on the box tells you less than most buying guides suggest. Manufacturers do not build a 1HP or 1.5HP compressor to one fixed…
A ductless mini-split typically uses the least electricity per hour of cooling, running on roughly 600 to 1,500 watts depending on size and technology, well below the 2,275 watts a central air system draws on average. But the lowest energy…
A heating and cooling tune up is a scheduled inspection and service visit for your HVAC equipment, but what it actually includes depends heavily on what kind of system you have. A furnace and central AC split system needs different…
A furnace and AC tune up is a scheduled inspection and cleaning of your heating and cooling equipment, done by a licensed technician before each system’s busiest season. Most homeowners pay between $75 and $250 per system, and a single…
A solar AC and an inverter AC solve different problems. An inverter AC cools your home efficiently on grid power. A solar AC (or an inverter AC paired with solar panels) cuts what that cooling costs you over time, at…
The solar air conditioning market is growing, but no two research firms agree on how big it actually is or how fast. Published figures for the global solar air conditioning market range from roughly $540 million to nearly $30 billion…
An inverter air conditioner saves electricity by running its compressor at a variable speed instead of switching it fully on and off, and in most homes that cuts the cooling bill by 25 to 45 percent compared with a fixed-speed…