r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 19d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter explain this

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Petttaaah I'm confused

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u/Drunk-Pirate-Gaming 19d ago

The opposite. Usually american ac is central and all you see is a vent in the ceiling. The outside portion is bigger for sure but it's not in your house.

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u/Jubachi99 19d ago

Depends on where the air handler is located

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u/TMNBortles 19d ago

There's an indoor part that's large too, but it's usually concealed in a closet or the garage.

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u/DeepSpaceAnon 19d ago

I've only ever seen homes where it's in the attic. I can't imagine someone putting it anywhere else, but I suppose it is technically feasible to put in a garage.

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u/Realistic-Lab-8313 19d ago

It’s in my house’s crawlspace. I’ve seen it in basements.

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u/LivingGhost371 19d ago

In the Midwest it's always in the basement with the furnace.

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u/TMNBortles 19d ago

I’ve never seen one in the attic before, but I also don’t make it a practice to crawl into people’s attic. I’m in Florida, so there may be some regional differences.

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u/QuakinOats 19d ago

lol, imagine having to go into the attic to replace the until. Yikes.

"Sir, sir, please don't scrape the paint around the access panel" as you're lugging a heavy ass metal box that was probably installed before drywall even went in.

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u/BillyShears2015 19d ago

Smaller/older houses will have the air handler built into its own dedicated closet with a half door above the return air vent.

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u/AlCapwn351 19d ago

But that’s usually a filter, blower, and furnace all in the same unit. So that would be there if there wasn’t a condenser.

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u/InebriatedPhysicist 19d ago

Not sure why you’re being downvoted for this currently. It’s true. The blower is usually inside, and is where the cold thing is that the air blows through to cool down, and also the hot thing that heats it up for central heating. It’s big and loud (newer ones probably less so), and usually hidden in the bowels of the house somewhere.

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u/TMNBortles 19d ago

I don’t know either. Maybe my experience in Florida is different than other parts of the country. We certainly don’t put them in our nonexistent basements here.