{"id":13324,"date":"2013-06-05T08:27:42","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T08:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leedpoints.com\/?guid=4dc3a8968f4e85ac665d2b453fa6aa0e"},"modified":"2013-06-05T08:27:42","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T08:27:42","slug":"a-3-ton-air-conditioner-will-rarely-give-you-3-tons-of-cooling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/a-3-ton-air-conditioner-will-rarely-give-you-3-tons-of-cooling\/","title":{"rendered":"A 3-Ton Air Conditioner Will Rarely Give You 3 Tons of Cooling"},"content":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>Subtitle:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                    Even when a cooling system is perfectly designed and installed, three factors can reduce an air conditioner&#8217;s capacity        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Images:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blogs\/dept\/building-science\/3-ton-air-conditioner-will-rarely-give-you-3-tons-cooling\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/hvac-air-conditioner-size-capacity-ahri-manual-s-acca.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Air conditioner capacity\" width=\"144\" height=\"94\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blogs\/dept\/building-science\/3-ton-air-conditioner-will-rarely-give-you-3-tons-cooling\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/ahri-certificate-air-conditioner-capacity-actual-nominal.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"AHRI certificate for 3 ton air conditioner\" width=\"144\" height=\"101\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blogs\/dept\/building-science\/3-ton-air-conditioner-will-rarely-give-you-3-tons-cooling\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/thermometer-air-conditoner-capacity.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Indoor temperature\" width=\"144\" height=\"192\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Of course, there are more than three reasons that your 3-ton air conditioner isn&#8217;t really 3 tons, starting with the fact that it&#8217;s not 3 tons in weight. That unit refers to cooling capacity and harkens back to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyvanguard.com\/blog-building-science-HERS-BPI\/bid\/55629\/Why-Is-Air-Conditioner-Capacity-Measured-in-Tons\">the days of ice<\/a>. I&#8217;m also not talking about any of the multitude of reasons having to do with improper design, faulty installations, or lack of maintenance &mdash; topics that I discuss plenty in this space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9235,10288,2899,10289,10290,10291,10292],"class_list":["post-13324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-building-posts","tag-acca","tag-ahri","tag-air-conditioner","tag-cooling","tag-hvac-design","tag-manual-s","tag-space-cooling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}