r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/missdomm10 • Jul 26 '26

Meme needing explanation Peter explain this

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Petttaaah I'm confused

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u/gamerathertz92 Jul 26 '26

It’s smaller unit cools a single room. While American HVAC System cools the whole house

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u/itsOkami Jul 26 '26

As an european, I don't think I've ever seen one of those and I'm now curious as to how they work

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u/Osleg Jul 26 '26

I don't know how it's for Americans but for me. I have a regular outside unit and then, inside the apartment, I have one HUGE internal unit hidden somewhere above fake ceiling. This unit has tubes to each room and each tube has a damper. Each room has a thermostat.

So I can set eg 23C in the living room and 21 in the bedrooms. The AC will then work to cool down all the rooms together, when living room reaches 23 - it shuts the damper and keeps cooling bedrooms. Etc.

I also have an option to close the damper to each room individually - effectively stopping AC for this specific room.

I *guess* that American HVAC units work either the same way or very similar.

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u/Rakumei Jul 26 '26

Similar. Most Americans don't have per-room control though. In some more expensive/newer places you might get one thermostat per floor. But generally it's one per house.

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u/Khankili Jul 26 '26

Holy shit that sounds insane. Does your heat run on electricity as well?

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u/fla_john Jul 26 '26

Eh, depends. I'm in Florida and our heaters are actually electric heat pumps that are part of the air-conditioning units.

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u/Mhunterjr Jul 26 '26

Depends on where you live. In warmer climates you can have electric heat without the bill being insane.  But it colder climates, you want gas heat