The short answer is no, but it’s perfectly understandable why many people think shading your air compressor a good idea. The concept of shading an air conditioning unit—specifically the air compressor—is a widely circulated myth largely based on a misconception of the science involved and the way an air conditioning unit operates. Why Shading the Air Compressor Doesn’t Work In theory, cooling down the air proximate to an air conditioning unit should give the machine a bump in efficiency because […]