I'm wondering if my A/C unit is about to go out on the fritz... It seems to be cooling properly. However, it sounds like one of those claming fountains with trickling water, or a fish tank... There is no pooling of water inside the house. I'm just wondering if it's normal to be hearing that. If it's not normal, is there something I can do to fix it without having to call a repairman?
2006-07-03 21:58:35 · 10 answers · asked by razorblade_barbiedoll2383 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
Some window air conditioners do use a slinger fan to throw water on an air conditioner's condenser coil. That is normal. However, if you're hearing the noise as soon as you turn the machine on, or if you didn't hear it before and now you do, you may have another problem. Or you may not have a window unit at all. If it is a split air conditioner, you most likely have a problem with the amount of refrigerant charge. Sometimes machines with a low or high refrigerant charge make noises similar to the one that you described. It is actually the sound of the refrigerant passing through the tubing in the machine. If you have a window unit with this problem, it may not be worth your time and money to bring in a technician. You may just want to replace it for what those guys will charge you for the repair. However, a split air conditioner (machine with an indoor and an outdoor unit connected by tubing) is a significant investment and is made to be serviceable. Sometimes just a cleaning will help with the noise. But you may need to have the charge adjusted. Make sure that the technician that comes to do the work is competent. If he is a good one, he will check the machine to see if it needs cleaning. A charge cannot accurately be done without cleaning the machine first. Then he will take temperature readings of the outside temperature and the pipe temperatures in certain areas of the machine. Then he'll look at a chart called a pressure-temperature chart and see if the readings he is getting on his gauge are correct. If not, he'll adjust the charge accordingly. An even better technician will recover all the refrigerant from the machine and recharge a specified weight of refrigerant that he finds on the nameplate. A word of caution though, I worked on a Carrier unit once that would not stop making that noise no matter what we did. The culprit was a combination of tubing length and diameter that was affecting the performance of the machine. In other words, sometimes there is really nothing you can do and if you can live with it, I wouldn't worry too much about it.
2006-07-03 23:56:01 · answer #1 · answered by chump 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Water Ac Unit
2016-10-19 05:11:38 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Long explanation, bottom line, don't call a repair man. You're unit while cooling the refrigerant (freon), cause's outside air (which has moisture, to condesated, and then drip into the condensate pan (bottom pan of the ac). Much like when you have a glass of soda with ice in it, water forms on the outside, condensation. The fan, is called a "slinger fan," which is designed to throw some of this water into the air flow to provide a 55 percent relative humidity in your room. An air conditioner, conditions the air, booth cooling it, and adding just the right amount of humidity, or mositure. If your ac didn't add moisture to the air flow, your house would be cool, but very dry, then you would have to buy a humidifier to offset this.
2006-07-03 22:06:54 · answer #3 · answered by Clipper 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It's normal,it's water in the drain pan and as the fan turns it's splashing the water a round.I had one that did that and it's normal for it to do.If you're concerned about it look in the back of it ,outside,and see if there's a plug or see if it's draining out the back.If there's no plug you can make one by drilling a hole in it to drain the water,but FYI the water helps keep the motor cool,and the unit cool.
2006-07-03 22:06:18 · answer #4 · answered by dragonsaver005 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think the drain line may have clogged.
In a humid climate, it is possible to get a sudden and heavy condensation in any AC unit.
Condensed water may drain slowly if drain is clogged or if it is not well sloped.
Check it out and look where it is draining. Look for for a clogged Darin inlet inside drain pan.
2006-07-04 05:01:29 · answer #5 · answered by hmm97 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
be advantageous you install horizontally and rear tilted 10 mm downward so as that water may be drained thro. the hollow. interior the humid section you are going to be able to might desire to install a basin with drain pipe below the ac. in the journey that your way of venting air motives low overall performance, you are going to be able to might desire to install an exhaust fan on the tip of the exterior vent to develop the cooling of ac.
2016-12-10 04:19:35 · answer #6 · answered by vogt 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
your unit needs to be tipped to the outside of the building slightly to allow for proper drainage (air conditioners drain, not leak on the outside)
2006-07-04 02:20:58 · answer #7 · answered by maintenance super 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This site has almost everything you want to know about buying air conditioners and air coolers. tinyurl@com/airconknowledge (Replace @com with .com)
2014-08-13 02:25:14 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
GET A MANUAL TO TROUBLESHOOT
2006-07-03 22:29:26 · answer #9 · answered by kzzxguy 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
its cleaning perhaps.....
2006-07-03 22:04:11 · answer #10 · answered by grayxenon 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋