AC and Heat

[blnk2007]

How are people figuring out how many AC and heating units are needed? Trial and error? Math? I seem to always get messages about AC units not being able to cool enough. I have added what seems like 75+ AC units and the message won't go away.

[Pazox]

Are you using the latest testing version 8.10.15? It is fixed there.

One unit is enough for around 375m². If you don't want to calculate, then create a blueprint of the building and look in the blueprint info window, how large the building is in square meters.
If the building has 1200 m², then you have to add at least 4 units to the building.

[cfranks007]

That's awesome. That was a acomplaint of mine. It was hard to determine the heating. Have you noticed if window heating effects are included?

[blnk2007]

Thanks for the info. That save is older than 8.10.15, but I'll remember for the future.

[Philip]

How do the central heaters work? Do they just need to be placed anywhere in the same building or is there some adjacency requirement? How is the heat distributed? Do I need something else to distribute it?

[Ninjadude501]

Originally posted by Philip:

How do the central heaters work? Do they just need to be placed anywhere in the same building or is there some adjacency requirement? How is the heat distributed? Do I need something else to distribute it?

So far as I know, and so far as I've used them, simply place them. There is no adjacency requirement that I've found. The heat is distributed based on what is connected to the building; one building's central heating/cooling won't heat another building without the two being connected.
Again, simply based upon what I've found.

[holmen38]

Forget the AC it make noise and not much else, I build my offices the size of the square you begin with, I use 4 radiators, and 4 small fans above the radiators, and that does the trick for me.
I put the heater in an basement, that I build under my office, a basement I expand as needed, the basement also serves as the Server-room.
In short forget the AC, you don´t need it.

[Philip]

Originally posted by Ninjadude501:

Originally posted by Philip:

How do the central heaters work? Do they just need to be placed anywhere in the same building or is there some adjacency requirement? How is the heat distributed? Do I need something else to distribute it?

So far as I know, and so far as I've used them, simply place them. There is no adjacency requirement that I've found. The heat is distributed based on what is connected to the building; one building's central heating/cooling won't heat another building without the two being connected.
Again, simply based upon what I've found.

Thanks.. Just tried, seems that if I make a "maintenance shed" and have it hooked up by a corridor, I can just throw a bunch of each AC's and Central heaters in there.

[Ninjadude501]

Originally posted by Philip:

Originally posted by Ninjadude501:

So far as I know, and so far as I've used them, simply place them. There is no adjacency requirement that I've found. The heat is distributed based on what is connected to the building; one building's central heating/cooling won't heat another building without the two being connected.
Again, simply based upon what I've found.

Thanks.. Just tried, seems that if I make a "maintenance shed" and have it hooked up by a corridor, I can just throw a bunch of each AC's and Central heaters in there.

Psh, I just throw them in my reception room with some walls separating the main room and the heating/cooling. XD
Noise isn't really a factor so long as they're in their own room.

[Chiddy Gives Gas]

I place them in the hallway and decorate it.