Thought my AC was acting up Dragged a tank leak detector, and gauges out to top it off

[G+_Eddie Foy]

Thought my AC was acting up.  Dragged a tank. leak detector,  and gauges out to top it off.

Nope superheat was dead one (well, off 1^F)

Just dang hot.

Pondering putting a sprinkler on the roof for some evap cooling.

Wish I had a big rain barrel.  I'd solar power the pump.

[G+_Ben Reese]

I was once told your doing good to have a 20° drop between inside and outside using AC. On a 90°(F) day that's not too bad, but 100+ and you may be tougher to keep the temp down. (I also think that AC technician was also trying to give himself room for error.)

[G+_David Wiggins]

Most a/c systems operate on something of a differential. The can typically only lower by a percentage. That's why cars frequently only cool a little.

On another note, one year my a/c died in a heat wave, but the culprit was only a bug that had crawled between the contacts of an internal switch. It got fried and prevented the circuit from completing. . . An the a/c guy didn't charge me!

[G+_Eddie Foy]

Sounds like Ada Lovelace.  See found the very first software 'bug', and it was a moth in the works.  Hence the term bug/debug we use now.

Cars usually cool better.  I was driving down the LIE one killer hot day and saw a rear window go poof!

Kid in the backseat was saying/pleading it wasn't him.