AC not working

[Macho Man]

I have an AC unit set up with the cool side facing the room I wish to cool down and the heat side in another room. The AC is set too -270 C and it is hotter inside than it is outside

[Macho Man]

Update: All of my people have died from heat stroke. The AC is connected to power but it won't work.

[Bob]

AC needs to have the hot side facing a very large room or preferably outdoors. Otherwise all that heat is pooling up inside that room and bleeding back through the walls.

[its so balatrover]

Originally posted by Macho Man:

I have an AC unit set up with the cool side facing the room I wish to cool down and the heat side in another room. The AC is set too -270 C and it is hotter inside than it is outside

Why -270C? You only need to put the temperature down to -1 or -2C in order to freeze food.

[Astasia]

The hot air needs to go somewhere, you can't pump it into a hot room or the cooler stops working.

[whit]

Yeah, temps bleed into adjacent rooms...So, yes it's been said but you need to build at the very least vents to the outside.

[Macho Man]

Thanks for the advice <3

[Grishnerf]

for best help you can provide a screenshot if you want.
pictures tell more than 1000 words.

[RoboGerbil]

room is probably too big for just one ac unit. one unit can handle about 30 squares.

[LordAziki]

I personally only set an AC for keeping stuff frozen to -10C since it usually won't go above 0C during a heat wave with that setting. Setting it to -270C sounds like a good way to give your colonists hypothermia. After being certain there is space for the hot air to vent, I would suggest putting it on its default setting of 21C to prevent killing anyone. Putting a passive cooler in bedrooms and room that get a lot of traffic during a heat wave is a much simpler solution to heat stroke problems, but you need to have the passive cooling research completed and some wood to build them with.

[Devixian-Firehawk]

So I've had something like this happen, except instead of the hot air blowing into another room, its blowing outside. Anything going on with that?

[pheanox]

Please don't necro-post.