Re: Central Air Problem

On Jul 6, 2:14 pm, sonia.a...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Here's the latest on my problem. It stopped working and checked the
indoor and outdoor control panels and nothing was frozen. It doesn't
look dirty so would the dirt be internal? Do you think it needs more
freon? The outside fan does run and air comes in but just not cold
air all the time.

Please don't take this the wrong way, but you're so clueless about how
your A/C works that you really should call a professional in. Trying
to do it yourself, you're just going to break it worse than it already
is.

If it needs freon, it has a leak, and any freon you add (provided you
manage to add the freon without blowing yourself to kingdom come) will
just leak out. A professional has a special dye and tools to detect
and fix the leak.

The whole discussion is moot, though. All you keep saying is "IT DON'T
WORK." There is no way to diagnose the problem without more
information, and even then, there still may be no way to completely
figure out what is going on without physically being there.

A little lesson on A/C: Air doesn't "come in." You are not getting
cold outside air when you turn on the A/C. The outside unit compresses
the freon and cools it. The compressed freon flows to a radiator
inside your ductwork in the house, where it is allowed to expand. When
it expands, it gets really cold. Your furnace blower sucks air out of
your house, blows it through this radiator where it gets cold, then
blows it back into your house. The cold air you feel is inside air
that has been cooled.

This radiator in the ductwork (called the condensor IIRC) is the part
that may be full of crud and/or frozen. Usually it is located near the
furnace because that is where the fan is.

.

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