Mine is set at 80 degrees during the summer. During the winter it is at 60 or maybe 65. I live in an over 100 year old dog trot style house in Alabama with only attic insulation and the original single pane double hung windows.
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65ยฐ while I sleep, 68ยฐ-70ยฐ while I'm home, off while I'm not
76F in the summer, 72F during the day in the winter, 68F at night in the winter.
68-75. This means if it's between those numbers, the HVAC doesn't turn on.
Does it turn off at the near or far end of that range?
What I mean is, if it were 76 and your cooling turned on, would it shut off at 75 or at 68?
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Minimum, but it still doesn't get below 23C in the winter
If I had one and was unbothered by energy, probably around 18-21 C. As it stands, I'm planning on storing a couple of spray bottles full of water in the fridge and having a fan pointed at me at all times when summer comes around.
House only has a traditional heating system with no temperature control. In summer I just drink a lot of water and wear short sleeves, in winter it's the lowest setting that can keep me from freezing.
You could probably just replace the dumb thermostat with an electronic one that regulates by temperature if you want. They are quite simple.
We don't have a set temperature for all year, that seems silly to me. The outside temperature, the price of electricity/gas, the energy efficient of your house, so many variables...
Apologies for not converting, but in the winter we stick to the mid to high 60s when it's in the 40s or below outside. For the summer if it's getting into the high 90s or low 100s we have to go up to the high 70s to avoid going broke on electricity.
PS go clean out the heat exchange fins on your compressor outside, sometimes animals or weather will clog them up with debris which kills the efficiency of the compressor.
Somewhere between 15 to 20 during summer and Somewhere north of 25 during winter for me.
I have electric panel heaters so there isn't a thermostat. I'd normally turn one on in the main room and bedroom for a couple of hours each day during winter, but last winter my electricity rates were so high that I just used them on the coldest days. The thermometer in my bedroom dropped below 10ยฐC, it wasn't fun.
71F always, year round
77F - day 75F - night.
Hah, thermostat
I'm the top floor apartment
My AC is set to 70f, it's currently 82f inside at about 0100.
My bedroom is 85f
If it could do the job I'd have it set to 75f and ideally keep it there but unfortunately I have to set it to 70 because the area near (like within a meter) the AC gets cold enough to get it to kick off any higher while the apartment cooks
on winters, I don't go above 20ยฐC. on summers, I completely turn off the heater and even cut the gas, have all the two windows fully open for the rest of the season. I have an AC system installed, tho it's really old and consumes too much power for my likings. In my country they fucking rob people with electricity/gas bills, it's the fetish of our president. Also the AC unit is in a wrong place and haven't even cleaned it in years, so... it's just decoration at this point.
my luck is that I have neighbors on two sides and under me (I'm at first floor) so I don't really need to crank up the heater, because I'm already surrounded by heated homes. since my home is small, heating with gas is extra cheap for me.
I'm from Europe.
I do 80F during the day and 78F at night in the pacific northwest US. It usually gets cold enough at night that opening windows will cool my house to the low 70s overnight. In the winter I have it set to 68F. I use ceiling fans and appropriate clothing to stay comfortable within those parameters.