HVAC Question

I have an outside compressor that I want to move. The electric is no problem but I am not sure about the plumbing part. Can I shut these off somehow and move it? I figure there must be freon or whatever in it so wanted to check before I went at it. Thanks.

Reply to
arthur.moore
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Yes, you must deal with the coolant. You will need an AC technician.

Reply to
Charles Schuler

Unless you are willing to invest in at least a kilobuck worth of specialized tools, including a vacuum pump, gauges, recovery tank etc., plus obtain a license to permit you to legally mess with freon, you better hire out that part of the job to an HVAC professional.

Things ain't like they were 40 years ago, when you could legally do your own automobile and home air conditioning work with little more than a set af gages and a tank of freon. Even places like Sears sold home AC equipment with precharged lengths of tubing to anyone with the ability to pay for it.

Jeff

Reply to
Jeff Wisnia

Well, you still can do your own automotive AC work as long as it's R134A, but most people are just wasting refrigerant.

I have 1 can of R12 that I bought at an auto parts store for $1. Sure miss those days..

-rev

Reply to
The Reverend Natural Light

I often wonder if the outside unit is intentionally installed right next to the patio or deck or balcony. How about putting it behind the garage or some other place where I don't have to listen to it all the time.

-rev

snipped-for-privacy@veriz> I have an outside compressor that I want to move. The electric is no problem

Reply to
The Reverend Natural Light

Comes down to money, mostly. The further away, the more tubing, refrigerant, etc. Most people don't want them sitting in the middle of the yard either. Some efficiency is lost with distance also.

Reply to
Edwin Pawlowski

Local codes often limit the possibilities as they want to protect the neighbors from the noise.

Reply to
Joseph Meehan

I think they're often found near the electric meter.

Reply to
CJT

Whatever you do, DO NOT POST THIS QUESTION on the hvac newsgroup.

Participants on that group have inhaled too much Freon.

Reply to
HeyBub

Ah the days when it was freon that was going to destroy the planet. Don't hear that much today, they have a new villian. I imagine in 10 years we will be hearing that hydrogen is the new destroyer of planets and that the proliferation of solar collectors is trapping heat that was supposed to be reflected back into space or absorbed by plants.

Reply to
gfretwell

The new villan du jour is carbon dioxide. So burning wood, charcoal, or other fossil fuels is now the enemy of the left.

Reply to
Stormin Mormon

The human world mostly runs via fossil fuels. Switching to alternatives is a HUGE undertaking and, at this time, NOBODY knows what the best paths are. We, perhaps, have outlived our time on this orbiting lump around old Sol. I mean to say that we have possibly damaged the ecosystem beyond our ability to repair it.

We have lured by the concept that science and technology will provide the answers. Not this time, in my humble opinion.

Necessary Doom? No, there is always hope; but given the current stance of world leaders we are indeed in deep doo-doo.

Better that we should be attacked by Klingons, and thus be forced to cooperate.

Reply to
Charles Schuler

Exactly. According to Eric Hoffer in "The True Believer," people join mass movements because their lives are otherwise meaningless. While a mass movement can exist without a god, it MUST have a devil - without something to hate, the mass movement will wither and die.

Reply to
HeyBub

Of course the very definition of "opinon" is "A belief or conclusion held with confidence but not substantiated by positive knowledge or proof."

Energy abundance, for sure, has given us a greater standard of living, greater life expectancy, less effort, and more material rewards. Whether this same energy abundance will be our undoing - via global cooling/warming (whatever's in vogue this year), pollution, wealth disparity, terrible balance of payments, or other doomlets - is unproven and problematic. I'll take certainity over conjecture any time.

Reply to
HeyBub

That certainly describes the Republican party in recent years.

Reply to
CJT

I don't know if you are right or not, but I can give a couple analogies to your position. Things you hear about all the time. A man 5 foot 8 smokes all his life and gets fat too, 300 pounds. Then at age 68 he has a heart attack and finally cuts out smoking and goes on a diet. He looses 1 pound a week, consistently, which is pretty good most would say. But at the end of the year, he's still going to be 250 pounds, and his lungs will still be clogged by most of the 50+ years of smoking. In 10 to 20 years the risk caused by earlier smoking will be down to near-zero, and in 3 years total his weight will be down to 150, what it should be. But will he live those 3 years or will he have a second heart attack in 1, 3, 6 months?

Will the people of the world stop hurting the world before a lot of people die? Probably not. The 3 major limits on poplulation have been famine, disease, and war. We have 5 pretty good decades, comparitively, especially from the US pov, but we are not free of any of those things. Will anything kill all of us? I don't see that coming any time soon. That's why I'm saving wood and nails, so that after the big catastophe, I'll still have enough supplies to do my home repair projects. I figure all the stores will be closed, or they will be out of stock because all the trucks have stopped running.

Another thing worth mentioning here is the sad state of asking questions in the news. They had an oil exective in a short interview and asked him if he was concerned about global warming. He said, Absolutely, very concerned. But the reporter didn't see the out the guy was relying on. The oil guy never said he thought oil and gasoline usage had anything to do with global warning. If the reporter had pinned him down, he would have said, "Global warming is a natural phenomenon. I am very concerned about it, but there is nothing the oil companies have done to make it worse, and nothing we can do to make it better."

Same thing when they asked that line of cigarette company executives, in a Congressional committee hearing, Do you believe that cigarette smoking causes cancer? They all said No. Supposedly a big victory for the anti-cigarette people becasue they had trapped these guys and could now punish them. But only in rare cases can one prove that someone doesn't believe what he said he believes. They never asked what evidence there was that smoking was neutral with regard to lung cancer, only what they believed. Even if yesterday one had said, "It's a shame how much cancer our cigarettes cause" today he could change his mind.

Reply to
mm

You mean Klingons like Pelosi, and the other liberal environmentalists? I'm sure we will be forced into submission.

Reply to
Stormin Mormon

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