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Originally Posted by jazzfest

I wonder how much the black air conditioner cover on the roof effects the cooling capabilities.

In my technical opinion -- essentially none.

The A/C moves a lot of air across condenser (100s of cubic feet per minute), so once operating the air passing through condenser won't have much time to heat up. Additionally, even if the condenser air warmed up a fraction of a degree (or even more), it wouldn't reduce cooling "capacity" appreciably. It would mostly increase the condensing pressure which makes compressor work a little harder, and pull a little more current, but it wouldn't affect cooling capacity enough to worry about. I doubt we could even measure the difference.

My biggest concern would be with plastic cover getting hot and brittle when the air conditioner wasn't operating.