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I had a lot of people over yesterday. My son and dil brought my grand daughter down from CT, so all the more local people could meet her. I had tested the air conditioner the other day. I turned it on, made sure I got cool air, and then shut it down. Big mistake.
When I needed the air yesterday 92 out, it failed. I turned it on a few hours before everyone arrived to build some buffer. It froze over. I ran the heat to unfreeze it. I cut off the aluminum foil and blew the coils out as best I could on the A frame. starter it up again and again it froze over. There was no heavy accumulation of crud on the A frame, so I think I am low on freon... as far as I know it's never been serviced since 1987.. I bought in 99. So it probably has the older freon...
Anyway the blunder is assuming that it is working just because it came up cool. My advice... run it for a few hours if you are going to need it. We limped by with ceiling fans helping, but with all the people it was up to 85 for a while.
edit: wife corrected me, it reached 87..
When I needed the air yesterday 92 out, it failed. I turned it on a few hours before everyone arrived to build some buffer. It froze over. I ran the heat to unfreeze it. I cut off the aluminum foil and blew the coils out as best I could on the A frame. starter it up again and again it froze over. There was no heavy accumulation of crud on the A frame, so I think I am low on freon... as far as I know it's never been serviced since 1987.. I bought in 99. So it probably has the older freon...
Anyway the blunder is assuming that it is working just because it came up cool. My advice... run it for a few hours if you are going to need it. We limped by with ceiling fans helping, but with all the people it was up to 85 for a while.
edit: wife corrected me, it reached 87..
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