It doesn’t heat or cool faster, this is simply the interface we’re talking about. They both do heating and cooling at the exact same speed and power, and they both stop heating and cooling the instant the ambient temperature reaches whatever temp you set the controls to. The only difference is one is controlled by a dial and the other uses buttons.
Automotive A/Cs with an automatic temperature control instead of the knobs actually will cool faster with it set to the minimum temperature. All you’re doing when you increase the temperature is adding heat to the cold air, therefore it takes longer to cool the interior down compared to setting it to Lo.
I’m essentially certain that it does. How do you think the heat/cool slider dial works? It’s the same as an analog thermostat in a house. Turning the dial further to the heat side doesn’t make the air coming out of the vent any hotter, it just controls when the heating should automatically turn off.
Interesting to know, but presumably it doesn’t change the main point, which is that a digitally controlled system presumably still shoots out the same maximum amount of heat per second as the analog dial controlled system can do. Like a house window air conditioner has 2 states: creating the maximum amount of cold air per second that it’s able to do, and off. The digital control on the AC is simply a thermostat that tells it when to turn the cooling on or off. I presume the digitally controlled car heater works the same way, when the ambient temperature is much colder than the thermostat is set to, then it will put out the maximum amount of heat per second that it’s able to produce, which is the same amount as the analog slider system can produce.
Preach. I much prefer it heating and cooling faster than it throttling itself because you don’t have it set high or low enough.
I actually like the quieter settings better most of the time. Just a low breeze, so I might be the target audience for automatic.
I do in every season except summer, really.
It doesn’t heat or cool faster, this is simply the interface we’re talking about. They both do heating and cooling at the exact same speed and power, and they both stop heating and cooling the instant the ambient temperature reaches whatever temp you set the controls to. The only difference is one is controlled by a dial and the other uses buttons.
Automotive A/Cs with an automatic temperature control instead of the knobs actually will cool faster with it set to the minimum temperature. All you’re doing when you increase the temperature is adding heat to the cold air, therefore it takes longer to cool the interior down compared to setting it to Lo.
No, the former doesn’t involve a thermostat.
I’m essentially certain that it does. How do you think the heat/cool slider dial works? It’s the same as an analog thermostat in a house. Turning the dial further to the heat side doesn’t make the air coming out of the vent any hotter, it just controls when the heating should automatically turn off.
Actually, it blends the hot air and cold air. No thermostat involved
Interesting to know, but presumably it doesn’t change the main point, which is that a digitally controlled system presumably still shoots out the same maximum amount of heat per second as the analog dial controlled system can do. Like a house window air conditioner has 2 states: creating the maximum amount of cold air per second that it’s able to do, and off. The digital control on the AC is simply a thermostat that tells it when to turn the cooling on or off. I presume the digitally controlled car heater works the same way, when the ambient temperature is much colder than the thermostat is set to, then it will put out the maximum amount of heat per second that it’s able to produce, which is the same amount as the analog slider system can produce.