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Remember folks it's more efficient to start your air conditioning early in the day and keep it running to manage the temperature, rather than cranking it up when it's already hot to cool down.
Applies triple if it's evaporative. Keep ahead of it.
We used our powerpal reader as a meter when the sun was blazing and cranked the aircon as far as possible while reading zero grid use. Now maintaining comfy as shit with very little oomphing.
So you're saying it barely used any power starting it up in the middle of the day?
Zero grid usage. One of the first things we did was install a giant solar rig