I’m in my car and I set the AC to 67 it feels different than if I set my heat to 67. Shouldn’t 67 degrees be 67 degrees
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So there’s couple reasons it feels different.
First off, when you have AC going it’s blowing air that’s much *colder* than your target temperature (assuming it’s working) and a heater is going be blowing air that’s *hotter* than your target temperature. So that means it feels different because it *is* a different temperature.
Secondly, your body tends to adapt so going from hot to cold will feel extra cold and going from cold to hot will feel extra hot.
There are also potential differences in humidity that change how it feels, but that’s not always the case so I’m hesitant to say that’s a reason.
It should. But it’s not perfect. Plus, you’re not setting the air blowing from the vents to be 67 degrees. You’re telling the ACC you want the *average* of your car to be 67 degrees. It’ll still feel different depending on the weather outside though. Radiation is a big part of temperature that we often don’t consider. If the sun is shining and it’s hot out, you’ll be bombarded with radiant heat from outside, and the opposite if it’s really cold outside.
Because it’s relative to the temperature you were in before thag 67 degrees.
If you come in from outside in a snowstorm, 67 degrees will be warm. If you come in from a heatwave, 67 degrees will be cooling you off.
And when you’re in your house, with the heating and AC off, then you choose which you’ll turn on based on what you need, it’ll feel like what the goal is: An AC won’t warm the place to 67 degrees, it will cool it. A heater won’t cool the place to 67 degrees, it will warm it.
67 degrees is 67 degrees but you can’t feel temperature. What 67 degrees feels like is relative to the ambient temperature because you feel the exchange of heat not the temperature. If it’s colder out 67 feels warm because you’re gaining heat, if it’s hot out 67 will feel cool because you’re losing heat.
Neither blow 67 degrees air. Heater blows hot air (say 100+ degrees) until the overall ambient air reaches at least 67. AC blows cold (40 degree) air until the overall mixture of ambient air drops to at least 67.
Because you don’t feel temperature. You feel the relative change in temperature. You feel heat, either entering or leaving your skin.
Also, AC and heaters don’t pump out the temperature air you set, they pump out air past what you set, so it can get to your desired temperature faster, then it shuts off or adjusts.
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