The HVAC Lie

So let's talk about HVACs. I just spent a significant fraction of my savings on a few of them. I bought nice Bosch units. They're overpowered for their rooms' sizes, but there's no choice. You cannot buy decent quality small HVACS in Europe. Installers don't even understand the concept of 'overpowered'. "It's Bosch! Top of the line! You'll love it! It does everything!"

I recalled, deep in my brain, serious problems with overpowered ACs, but I couldn't remember specifics...until they were up and running. Let's cut to the atrocious upshot:

1. HVAC splits do not, and cannot, draw in outside air. It's like putting your home in a Ziploc bag. You know how musty and unpleasant it gets when you leave your car on "Max AC" too long? That's your life now.

2. There is a "Fan" function, but it just blows the stale inside air around.

3. I finally remembered the issue: overpowered units don't run long enough to dehumidify. You get cool and clammy. To kill humidity, you'd need to set a super low temperature and put on a parka.

4. But wait! There's a "Dry" mode that dehumidifies! Bullshit. It just cools less efficiently, ignoring whatever temperature you may have set. It will run and run until humidity drops, whereupon you and your family will be icy corpses.

The solution, suggested by ChatGPT, is to also buy a window fan to pull in fresh air, and a dehumidifier to dry it, and then run the HVAC to cool. And I am super stoked to buy all that equipment after gushing cash on these HVAC units. Also, the decor aspect will be fabulous, with multiple snorting boxes attending to my atmospherics. Maybe I'll order the CERN package, used to keep the Large Hadron Collider on-point.

Remember those ungainly inefficient 80 decibel boxes we used to hang outside our windows? Ancient history. These modern beauties are a mere triple the price, and they DO EVERYTHING.