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I have the same reaction as Cambium when it comes to the 82F setting. As for myself I set my air conditioning thermostat to 61F, which is the lowest it can go, but in practice I keep my living quarters at 65-68F. 67F is the most common figure. At night I let it run and it gets cooler, typically reaching between 60-64F. I've found that the best overnight temperature for me is 62F.
So for me, you can put me down as 67 by day and 62 by night.
Interestingly, I typically keep my room at about the same temperatures in wintertime, though my autumn and winter temperatures are more variable due to my fondness for open bedroom windows. For air conditioning these figures are much chillier than the average person (by at least 8F at night), and would be beyond the capabilities of most air conditioning systems in hot weather. I used to keep my A/C on my maximum tolerance, which is 74F, but recently I have enhanced my cooling capabilities, and I feel quite a bit healthier sleeping in a 62F room than a 72F one.
I also just noticed that Cambium's thermometer also reads 62F by night .
I've never uses A/C where I currently live and never will. It never gets nearly warm enough for my preferences. When I lived in China, I'd set my A/C to 25C during the day and 22C at night.
It must be the frugal in me..... I don't think of AC as something to keep me comfortable. I consider it a tool to keep me from dieing of Heat Stroke. LOL (hence.... the 82F setting) I've been debating about raising it to 85F, but I'm worried my dog and cat might get stressed.
I tend to keep the winter toasties at around 72F. Sometimes 74F if it's a reallyyyyy frigid snowy blizzardy type of night. I think getting older is causing my blood to thicken. (lol) I get chilled too easily.
I find it curious that there is so much more disdain for air conditioning than there is for heating, with heating being considered a necessity and cooling not. I can understand one or the other not being necessary in some climates, but for almost everywhere in the lower 48 both are needed if you don't want to suffer. There's a good reason Houstonians got central cooling and set it to 68F as soon as they could . I don't have any grudge against those who want to "rough it", but I see people like SpringAzure who suffer in the heat but put the heating on a comfortable 72F in winter far more often than I see someone who claims heating is a luxury and/or just a tool to prevent frostbite, keeps the heating on 40F in winter and suffers in the cold, but at the same time keeps the air conditioning at a comfortable 70F.
I think there's an unfair bias against air conditioning due to it being a recent invention compared to central heating. People can't imagine being without central heating, but being without central cooling is within the cultural memory, so to speak. The subset of people who are growing up in the Sun Belt and have parents too young to tell them tales of life before air conditioning generally view central cooling to be as necessary as central heating, and I think in about 100 years cooling will be taken for granted just like heating is now.
Of course that won't stop some from sincerely making an effort at getting back to their roots, and in fact I hope many people keep up those sort of practices, on both ends of the scale. Even now there's a small group of people who eschew central heating, and in some climates where cooling was never necessary to begin with this shift in cooling views won't ever take place, just like people in tropical climates even now don't take central heating for granted even though it's been around for ages in Europe and America.
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. I don't have any grudge against those who want to "rough it", but I see people like SpringAzure who suffer in the heat but put the heating on a comfortable 72F in winter far more often than I see someone who claims heating is a luxury and/or just a tool to prevent frostbite, keeps the heating on 40F in winter and suffers in the cold, but at the same time keeps the air conditioning at a comfortable 70F.
