Question about air conditioning?
Question:OK..we live in AZ and it has been about 112-114 for the past week so the a/c has been running a lot to keep the house at 80. On Friday, I was sitting on the couch watching a movie with the kids and it was a comfortable 80 degrees in the house. By the time the movie was over it was up to 86 degrees. My husband looked at the a/c and said it was frozen so we waited for it to defrost and started the a/c again last night and it got down to 85 degrees and now this morning it's back up to 87 and the coils are frozen again. Any ideas/advice/suggestions to prevent this from happening?
Answers:
One of two reasons why this is probably happening.
First, the airflow across the indoor coil is low. Due to either the filter or coil being blocked, cleaning these will fix that problem. Or the indoor fan or motor is not working properly.
Secondly, you may have a freon leak in the machine. If so then there is nothing you can do to fix it, you will need specialist help.
As suggested above, in some machines, mainly the window type, if they are run continuously over extended periods of time (I mean hours and hours) without cycling off then you may get ice forming on the indoor coil. This is also an indication that the machine is undersized and overworked.
Hope this helps.
I no its hard but dont run ur ac so high keep it a few notches from the highest
I would check the a/c filter to see if it is plugged or heavily coated with dust, pet hair,etc. Clean or put in a new filter. I would also use a coil cleaner (available at hardware stores) to clean the dirt that has collected on the fins of the coil. Dirty fins and filters reduce the air flow across the evaporator and turns it into a ice maker rather than an air cooler.
Your ac is overworked and freezing over turn it down a little. If the unit is overworked to keep you in a comfort zone you may want to look at a larger ac unit.
It's not a mater of how long it runs, a/c systems are designed to cut out on head pressure if over run. Your system is low on refrigerant. Call an air conditioning company and they will come out and put a charge on your condenser.
there is only three possible problems here 1 a-coil is dirty and needs cleaning 2 your unit is low on freon..3.. both problems 1 and 2
wwwstat is exactly right as this is what he told me was wrong with my unit and that is exactly what was wrong..had to have coil cleaned and freon put in system
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