Why do People run AC with doors and windows open??

pappcam wrote:
I do it so I keep the fresh air flowing in the trailer. I've already paid for the electricity in my nightly camping fee.

It may seem selfish or wasteful but I usually only have the main screen door latched and no other windows open. I still need to go in and out and it also allows a lot of light in during the day.

X2 and yes, I do this at home too.

I like to leave the water running so it's always cold. Keeps fresh water flowing through my system too.

One of my Snowbird renters had the heater going and two A/C going at the same time this past winter in Yuma. I asked her "why" ? She said it got two cold then two hot. The heat and elect was included in the rent. Most of my rentals have separate elect meters but this unit does not. I just charge more per month. It takes all kind and I have seen most of them

It used to be just plain ignorance. In the early days of car a/c, I remember many folks running it with the windows open.

Doors open on the RV just means insects getting in.

Me?

Ooooooooo I'd just LOVE to pay the twenty dollars tacked onto the daily fee to try and cover the park monthly electrical cost. Pretty fartsmeller drive up cost of utilities. Next: Consume 200 gallons of water daily to wet down site to suppress dust.

One more great reason for doing it would be to let lots of warm moist air into the rv to keep it from getting too dry inside. If you like to run the AC with the door wide open, let her rip. Maybe the noise is a pest repellent? Lots of wonderful reasons.

When we do our budgets and set our prices we always consider the worst case scenario, so we always budget an increase in electrical consumption. If someone wants to air condition the great outdoors at my parks, it is safe to say everyone in the park is paying for that privilege.

midnightsadie wrote:
I think a lot of people have way to much free time on there hands to notice what other people are doing. me, I don,t care if you run your ac 24,,7

X2 BTW. If I see someone doing this, I will go up and ask them so I can let everyone here know the reason.

Why do people run the a/c with doors and windows wide open?

We do it when we want a fast cool down of the RV, when the temps outside are cooler than inside. This happens when we have been driving for hours or when we have been out and about all day. The RV cools down faster and we have it on less in the long run. We don't leave it running all day when we are gone which is just as wasteful. Our thermostat is set at 76 rather than the typical 71 degrees.

More than half of our power consumption is power we make ourselves - through our solar panels (2/3s of our time is spent dry camping). Since we full time, we aren't heating and cooling an additional 2000 sq. ft. house while we are 'camping.' We have a carbon footprint that is less than 1/10 of the average American household. So, before you point fingers at the wastefulness of others, please check yourself first.

whydo? threads are some of the funniest on these forums. :)

Can we make a top ten list of commonly repeated whydo's?

1) lights on all night (my favorite)
2) walk through "my" campsite
3) let their dogs bark constantly
4) idle their diesel for long periods of time
...
10) run A/C with doors/windows open

what else?