[Ron61]

Steve,

Yes, mine is just the single speed and the air conditioner guy spent quite a while explaining a lot of that stuff to me. I know the pipes in the attic have super hot air after a while, which is why I keep mine running more than most people. My pipes are well insulated and I have attic fans, but it still gets to hot to breathe up there. I don't have an automatic sprinkler system as I never got around to putting it in after my Mother passed on. And now I won't water because I don't want to have to mow in the summer. But I have a couple of small whirley type sprinklers and that is why I asked you if one of them would work. Should the water hit the sides of the unit or just go out around it so the air passes through it? I talked to them a month or so ago when they were doing the service about a newer unit and he told me that right now I would just be wasting money. I believe mine is a 3 ton unit but it may be 3 1/2.

My whole house is electric and the largest electric bill I have ever had was a few Summers ago when we had three straight weeks of temperatures in the 115 to 119 range and only cooled down into the mid 80s at night. I just went back and looked at my records and that bill was right at $297 dollars for the month. I have triple insulation in my house and even the garage is insulated.

Ron