iranfarsi67 asked:


I have a chevy venture 2000. Recently, the air conditioner blows hot air even when the knob is turned on cold section and the ac light is on. Some one told me to change the freon but I don’t know where the freon container is located and how to replace it. Is there any one who has any suggestions?
Thanks.

Adam

lilmizzaniml asked:


The air blowing out of my air conditioner, even when it is only on fan, smells like dirty feet. The filter is clean. What can I do to clean it and get rid of the smell?

Catherine

Reed B asked:


I’m trying to rearrange my living room in my apartment, and I’d like to put my sofa against a wall that has a permanently installed air conditioner built into it. Is there a way I can do this without affecting the air flow of the air conditioner? Maybe something along the lines of an attachable scoop or something, to redirect the air? Or I don’t know, SOMETHING that’ll allow me to use that wall for furniture!

Ben

ShellBullet asked:


I have a 2006 Chrysler 300 and it all of a sudden has a musty-stagnant water smell that comes on for a few seconds right after turning the air conditioner on. The Chrysler mechanic says it wouldnt be covered under warranty but I’m seriously thinking of bringing it in anyway.

He even told me that running the recycled air all the time is bad for the air conditioner. And that I should use the ventilated air as much as possible. I live in Los Angeles so I’d rather not smell the outside areas of my car when I’m driving.

Can anyone please help?????

Gerald

Vince asked:


I would like to use a window air conditioner to cool my cellar. My cellar doesn’t have a window. I would place the unit on a table and run a drain hose to the floor drain. Will the unit work properly with the back side of the unit inside the room, not in the fresh outside air?

Cathy

Barney Garcia asked:


Although it is quite a serious investment to install an air conditioner, many of us just plug in the device and forget about any sort of maintenance, until our window air conditioner stops providing the service we have gotten used to. This is the last thing that you should do. Neglecting your air conditioner’s maintenance would not only mean that the efficiency levels would drop but you might also be faced with stiff repair costs. However, if you just follow a few proper maintenance guidelines provided in the instruction manual, you can avoid a lot of problems.

What we do in the following part of the article is to provide you with a basic plan on how to take proper care of your air conditioner so that it can perform at its peak and also a few troubleshooting tips when you have to deal with unforeseen problems.

The first idea is to prevent your unit before it starts showing up problems. Since all air conditioners use filters, it is of primary importance to maintain the filter as without the filter in a proper condition no unit will be able enough to perform. So if you need efficiency from your air conditioner you must have the filter clean. It is best to clean them once every month.

Also be sure that the condenser coils of the air conditioner are clean and not covered by dust and dirt. Sometimes dust and grime can hide at places where it is not visible to the naked eye. It is best to vacuum the coils with a crevice tool so that you can reach all the nooks and the corners.

Problems, however, might still crop up and you have to deal with them. Sometimes you’ll notice a musty smell coming out of your air conditioner. This may be because of the moisture dust and dirt which leads to the formation of mold and mildew in the dip tray. All you got to do is to remove the dip tray and wash it with soap and water. It is best to do this once every year which would ensure that you never get this smell.

If you find some water leaking from the window air conditioner it might well be the interior moisture. It may be because your unit is tilted inwards, though it actually should be tilted outward. This hampers the drainage. Just get the unit installed properly and you will no longer encounter the problem.



Marilyn

Yo asked:


It doesn’t happen often, but every now and then, right as the air conditioner tries to kick on, it will blow a fuse, and I’ll need to go to the fusebox to reset that particular fuse. Then it’s fine, and the air conditioner works no problem. This doesn’t happen very often, but it is annoying.

Anyone experience a problem like this before, and any idea what needs to be done and what cost something like this should be for an electrician? Thanks.

Harry

Ricky Lim asked:


Residential air conditioners are fast becoming common household items providing cool breeze during the hot summer months. In the United States of America alone, there are about 60 million home air conditioners that use fluorocarbons. Using these, we can have controlled temperature and humidity at our place. There are three types of residential air conditioners. They are the window room, ductless split and the ducted central residential air conditioner systems.

Most air conditioners uses Hydrochloroflurocarbon (HCFC) which is a major component of the refrigerators and has severe effect on the ozone layer hole becoming bigger. So the manufactures are trying to move towards another component i.e. Hydroflurocarbon 410A which is very energy efficient and reduces the emission of carbon dioxide gas.

The Life Cycle Climate Performance (LCCP) index is the measure of the release of Carbon dioxide in Kilograms which results in warming. The percentage of LCCP due to the warming effect of the air conditioner’s refrigerant emission is just less than 5%.

The use of hydrocarbon in the residential air conditioning system is lesser and the arrangements must be made to reduce the risk due to fire which requires additional investment.

The international standards for air conditioners are that it should have refrigerant in air tight containers so that the release of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere is reduced to a great extent. The refrigerant should be able to be recovered, recycled and reclaimed and should not become an atmospheric pollutant.

There should be professionally trained servicemen who know well about the working of the residential air conditioner and can handle any malfunctioning. They should be in accordance with the air conditioner standards and should have proper maintenance facilities.

The cost of a residential air conditioner would be in the range of $500 to $10000 and it depends on the different makes and models. It also depends on its seasonal energy efficiency ratio (SEER) which is the ratio of the total cooling output of the air conditioner when it is in normal usage period and the total energy input in the same time.



Valerie

JT asked:


I am in the Philippines and humidity is around 70. I have a room of about 40sqm. I am not into a room so cool where an A/c usually do. I am okay when the room is just into a normal room temperature or a little cooler, but not that cold where I need to cover myself in bed sheets or warmer. Can an evaporative air conditioner fulfill my needs?

Ann

badbillytk asked:


I have a single detached house and my 2 ton central air conditioner just broke down. I want to get a new one. I have being offered two different brand of air conditioner, one is York and the other one is Keeprite. Can anybody tell me which one I should get for the money?

Peggy