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❄️🔥 Does Running Your AC 24/7 During a Heatwave Damage It? · Shafer Heating and Cooling Service Repair Podcast

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Last summer when we hit that and it ran for that couple of weeks there nonstop,
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was we at that point and we were above 90 degrees?
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Um, did it maintain or not? It's not necessarily initially a big worry.
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Um, as far as affecting the AC, you know, and, and damaging it,
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it's kind of, I, once again, we relate back to a car, right?
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If your car could run for, you know, actually I was down there,
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uh, close to you, Jim, not, not long ago. Right. And I drove all the way down.
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It was an 18 hour drive down and
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my truck ran, you know, for 20 hours straight, doesn't hurt it one bit.
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You know, the cruise is set. We're just cruising. It's actually harder oftentimes, right?
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If I was driving through traffic, you know, or in town, I should say for 20
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hours and starting to stop and starting to stop and turning it on,
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turn it off, turn it on, turn off.
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That can actually have a lot more wear and tear components, you know,
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on that system. And so, um, does
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it necessarily hurt the system to run nonstop like that for two weeks?