Weird A/C problem

[mamamary]

OK - I just woke up. My house was kinda cool so instead of fumbling with changing the temp I just shut my unit off. I have an air/heat pump (electric). Then as I'm sitting here on the dis I hear my air still coming thru the vents (this is one hour later). I just went to my thermostat to make sure I actually did turn it off - lol. Yes it is in the off position. Do you think my thermostat is broke? I wonder if when I was on vacation all of last week if my air was on? The actual fan in the outside unit is not turning so I'm a little confused. The air feels kinda cool that is coming thru the vents.

Any ideas?

 

[XYSRUS]

Make sure the fan is on "auto" and not "on". That my suggestion.

 

[polkadotsuitcase]

On ours, you can turn the heating/cooling part off separately from the fan part. (I'm sure there are technical words for these things, but that's all I've got! )

To get even more technical, the thing that actually blows the air -- the fan -- is up in the attic, not the unit that sits outside. So you could look out and see the fan on the unit not turning, but the air pusher thingamajig is still functioning.

...clear as mud, right?

 

[Tina]

To get even more technical, the thing that actually blows the air -- the fan -- is up in the attic, not the unit that sits outside. So you could look out and see the fan on the unit not turning, but the air pusher thingamajig is still functioning.

...clear as mud, right?

Yours is in the attic because you don't have basements in NC. The OP is in MD, so the blower is likely in the basement, unless they have a zoned system.