@ssaner and I checked out room 3 yesterday and ran it for a while to find the extension cord itself was heating up, so was swapped with a more appropriate one. Though, I would like an even better one like a shorter 10awg there though. The plug is rated for the pull. (AC is 11.2Amp, Plug is rated for 15A)
I found for the second time in the past week that someone set it down to like 62. Please do not set the thermostats to something like 62. Setting a thermostat low does not increase cooling rate. It just means it will run even if it gets to a decent value. Please use something like 72F or so.
Simply put they will not reach 62, because of the low R values.
Though some of this did enable me to look up some newer work, and take over some of the AC controls, so there’s a little work to enable what was the plan of starting up before a class as @MAtherton mentioned doing, which is has been the plan, unfortunately, the ‘smart’ ACs we got were being problematic. (Old mechanical control ones you can set the controls and then turn power on/off (being careful to not do that rapidly to blow up the compressor) and make that easy.)
There are also some additional sensors/microcontrollers in Room 3 that were placed in room 3 yesterday. They are esp32s + sensor plugged into 2 port USB AC adapters, feel free to use the USB-C ports (they don’t have cables, and I think are 20W max), but please don’t move/unplug the sensors/microcontrollers from where they are. (If needed you can move them a bit.)
What (in the rooms that we can centrally control) we’ll be transitioning to where we can is a qr code (and/or button) that will drop the temperature for an hour or so. Unless there’s an even on the room’s calendar (in which case it will run from -1 hour from start to the end of the event.)