How can the aircon be at the same temperature for both heating/cooling modes and feel different?
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When heating or cooling the set temperature is the one the unit is aiming to hit.
If you are trying to warm a room to a set temperature, you could just blow out air at the desired temperature and slowly warm the room, but it will be quicker and more efficient to blow out air at a much warmer temperature – as this spreads out and mixes with the ambient air the heat will distribute out (so the whole room doesn’t suddenly hit the temperature of air the unit is outputting, it will gradually increase), and then as the room approaches the target temperature the unit can reduce its output.
The same happens in cooling – the unit will output air at a far lower temperature than the desired target to more quickly reach the final temperature, then throttle back to a setting that can maintain that.
The end result is that if you are sitting directly under the unit, you get blasted with hot and cold, but for those outwith the blast zone they will experience a quicker acting and more efficient unit.
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