{"id":5063,"date":"2012-04-25T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T17:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=5063"},"modified":"2012-03-21T08:12:58","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T14:12:58","slug":"be-cool-and-give-your-air-conditioner-a-tune-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2012\/04\/be-cool-and-give-your-air-conditioner-a-tune-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Be Cool and Give Your Air Conditioner a Tune-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Dog-days.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5064\" title=\"Dog days\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Dog-days.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a>The dog days of summer are just around the corner and it\u2019s time to give your air conditioner its annual tune-up. Without regular maintenance, an air conditioner loses about five percent of its efficiency for each year of operation. Studies show that regular tune-ups will allow a unit to maintain up to 95 percent of its original efficiency.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>LCEC energy advisors recommend hiring a reputable air conditioning company to perform the tune-up for you. The cost is quickly recovered in savings on monthly electric bills. Your annual service check should include cleaning the condenser unit and evaporator coils, checking the compressor, oiling the fan motors, checking to see if belts are well adjusted and checking the system operating pressures and temperatures.<\/p>\n<p>LCEC customers can easily see the impact a tune-up makes by going online to check the daily energy usage on their account. This is an easy way to monitor how efficient your system is working also. A sudden spike in usage without changing any other habits can indicate that your unit needs service or repair. Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lcec.net\/\">www.lcec.net<\/a> and enroll in the kiloWATCH program to monitor daily energy usage and receive alerts when usage exceeds the threshold you set.<\/p>\n<p>A small commitment on your part will keep your air conditioning unit running efficiently and help keep your pocketbook in good shape too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dog days of summer are just around the corner and it\u2019s time to give your air conditioner its annual tune-up. Without regular maintenance, an air conditioner loses about five&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5063"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}