Air Conditioning Appreciation Days 2022

When I was in the 5th grade I recall daddy getting our first air conditioner. It was a window unit he installed into the rental property in which we resided at Hanahan, SC.

The cooling and dehumidification was luxurious to me personally.

Over the years we lived in several Navy housing units and these had central air which we pretty much maxed out during the summer months. I don't recall them ever failing.

When Dad retired we moved to his homestead in Salley SC and there too we had air conditioning. There was a window unit in the first shotgun style house in which we resided. A year or so later we had central air in the new home daddy built out there in the boonies. By and large I recall spates of suffering at those places nearby where there was no air conditioning and I have been a proponent of air conditioning since childhood.

Something about South Carolina, the heat, humditity, gnats, and yellowflies brought it all about.
 

As an adult I have been one to include air conditioning in my list of priorities. A few years back we replaced my old 3 ton unit with a new 3 ton Armstrong split unit. I need more air conditioner due to all the electronics operating in my house.

I maintain a locked down multihomed network featuring a server cluster, several workstations, as well as several routers with range extended wireless all over the place.

My outside compressor unit has a decidedly "Lennox" appearance to it — and looking over various brands sold as well as the literature included I suspect that this particular model is sold under a number of trade names. The other two pieces in the attic are not items I readily recognize in my decidedly HVAC challenged mindset.

Air Conditioning Appreciation Days are here. Corresponding to the dog days by and large this is an observance held from July 3 through August 15 every year.

The days mark the invention and role of air conditioning in modern existence. I for one could not live comfortably without air conditioning in the white hot humid summers of South Carolina.