put it in the oven

most mini splits have the option of sensing temp at the remote or at the evaporator.64 is to cold for most a/c,s to run and not eventually freeze up.You can have a fan cycle control installed on the outdoor to control the pressures also.This will allow the unit to run longer without freezing over.

Get over your energy wasteful ways and learn to sleep at a more normal temperature. Its not the ac unit that is broken here.

Do you drive a bulldozer to work every day too? How so inconsiderate of our earth to throw this much energy away for nothing.

"How so inconsiderate of our earth to throw this much energy away for nothing."
Oh geez, now we have a Mr Greenjeans in the forum. Use that liberal weenie save the earth crap for a different forum! Look, its texas als money and none of your damn business how he spends it. If he wants to sleep in a room so cold his willy shrinks down to nothing that his perogative!

bama dude, I had the outside unit of our current central air system equipped as you described. Basically the outside fan only runs when the head pressure reaches a certain point. But this is really so it can be run in cooler weather I thought. I wouldn't think an a/c should freeze up when its 75 outside even when you are trying to get the inside temp to 60.

Perhaps they put the limit of 64 on their unit because they have an inferior product that they are trying to protect.

Most of the other brands I've seen go down to at least 61.

It appears the thermostat is in the air handler and not in the remote. So I guess the air will blow out, be immediately sucked back in and when the immediate area is 64 it will shut off. It will probably be even warmer over on the bed where we are. Or, I'm hoping that the cool air will sink and the warmer air will be detected by the unit, which is about 8 feet off the floor, and maybe it can actually be cooler than 64 at bed level.

Can I wrap something around the temp sensor to make it less sensitive to the cool air coming in around it?

Dang AL you need a igloo,lol.I have noticed most of the new T-stats wont let you go below a certain temp, period.I would inagine if the equipment stays clean with no air restrictions it would keep it that cold.Your right ,with a lower ambient temp and a room at 60 degrees it would freeze up though.Theres no duct loss on a window unit or mini split.If you can manipulate the sensor your basically lying to the unit and it should run longer.You can measure the temp at the evaporator(return) and then at the disscharge to see what kind of drop you have when its cold in your igloo.Man your gonna have to keep that filter clean at those temps.

Bama Dude. Funny, the air handler only has one of those plastic screen filters just like our window unit has. We set the window unit on 60 every night and sometimes the temp says 59 or so. The unit actually cycles even set on 60. A light comes on when its time to clean the filter, but with this kind of filter is does not seem possible to keep the coils completely clean.

I am going into it open minded. We'll set it on 64 and see how comfortable it is before doing something to it. I'm also going to miss the loud noise of the window unit, great for sleeping. Since our current living quarters will become the guest house, I might have to come back if I can't sleep.

Not getting a good nights sleep every night. I have not been about to outsmart the thermostat. It cuts off when its 64 near the unit but I have a thermometer on my nightstand that reads about 67 usually when it shuts off. Usually after it only runs 5 minutes or so after we go to bed.

Hey guys.

This article could have been written by myself and my wife.

We just had the Art Cool 9k BTU installed on Wednesday (3 days ago) and are experiencing the same issue. We set the thermostat to 64, but most of the room does not get down to that temperature.

We used to use a window unit (actually still in the window) and that would cool our room down to the low 60's across the entire room. We hated the noise and the musty smell though and that is why we decided to go with the mini-split. Other than the 64 limiting temp, we love the new unit.

Curious if anyone has made any headway on this issue. As to whether or not the sensor is in the remote, or the wall unit and if there is a way to calibrate it or modify the sensor.

We will likely call our AC installers to see what they can do. If nothing comes out of that, we will call LG I guess and see what can be done. Some of the other LG units will go down to 60 I think and that would do the job.

Thanks!

Jay

jbeckcr,

Check your manufatcurer specs to see if there is an option for your remote to have a thermostat sensor, The Art Cool 9,000 thousand states the location of the sensor is in the indoor unit. Freidrick mini splits have a remote with a wireless sensor, It really depends on which brand you have. lol

Well, we have been in the new house for more than a year. We were not sleeping with the minimum setting at 64, so this is what how we get around it.

I drilled a hole in large white pencil eraser. I built a little insulated sleeve that the eraser fits into. Every night I microwave the eraser for 42 seconds and place it into the sleeve. I then insert the temp sensor into the eraser.

This usually gets the room to about 61 degrees for a couple of hours but then drifts up to maybe 63 by the time we wake up in the morning.

I wish there was another way.

In over a year the unit has frozen up 3 times. Once several months ago when the filter was dirty. But now it has frozen up 2 nights i na row and it is in the 70s at night. I cleaned the filter yesterday, and today I got the vaccuum and cleaned the coils. Didn't really look dirty.

Could be low on freon, I guess we will find out tonight.

I don't know that I have heard of anyone doing this but I can't think of why it would not work if you chose the remote function then place the remote outside of the room or in the farthest location away from the air handler you won't have much control but it should get down there where you want it does anything turn blue at 60 degrees?

Here is a link that might be useful: Air Conditioning and Heating Repair Made Easy

Thats kinda what i was thinking...or get you a little styrofoam cooler..a cheap one you get at a drive thru store..and see if it would work by sticking the remote in there. I doubt it though.

You know... they make these nice little all in one units we install on the tops of small 8'X 8' walk in coolers...

Long and short, the unit's lowest set point is 65* but the remote has a differential on it. Meaning the unit can run at a lower set point (5 degree difference) before shutting off. You're remote will only ever say 65, but the setpoint can be put lower. There's also the option to tell you're unit how high on the wall it's mounted which will change this as well. These are all in the "installer settings" of the remote. The remote it's self does nothing as far as reading the temp for the unit. The thermistor on all LG units is on the return of side of the coil (up by the ceiling). It's gauging it's temp there, not where you're at.