meant that I didn't take the trouble to read the BTU or tonnage rating on the unit before I posted.
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meant that I didn't take the trouble to read the BTU or tonnage rating on the unit before I posted.
Yep, per hour.
Thanks for your help. I did call a company but they said that chemicals are no good and that I could do it with a hose. It sure seems like a good place to start. Do you suggest I keep calling until I find someone willing to clean the unit or do it myself and what chemicals? Thanks again to everyone. This ng is a public service.
Nope, your dimensions are in error.
I'd suggest rinsing the fins with a garden hose. Pull the power disconnect out, first. So you don't kill yourself or damage the electrical.
If you're mechanically minded, take a couple bolts out, and pull the fan off the top. Rinse from the inside out. Worth a try, before you spend money on a paid service. If you don't want to take the unit apart, spray from the top, pointing mostly down. Rinse the dust and dirt out the bottom.
Try to keep any wires or electrical dry.
Please post corrections. Even a parakeet can say "no you're wrong" but it takes wisdom to post truth.
Your errors include the heat of fusion of water and its units, what a "ton" of cooling is, trying to equate the two, saying that some amount of cooling would "convert a ton of ice to water", and that cooling equates to energy.
The heat of fusion of water is specified in units of heat/mass, such as
79.7 cal/gm, or 287 KBTU/ton. A ton of cooling is a rate of heat transfer, not an amount of heat. You cannot equate the first to the second, such as your saying it "works out" to some equivalence. Cooling is a rate of heat transfer, not an "amount of energy" as you said.Which all suggests you are a poseur when it comes to HVAC.
Stormin Mormon posted for all of us...
Especially when it rains...
You, on the other hand, post a highly technical writing on the subject which turns out to be incorrect. Which all suggests that you are an engineer, not a HVAC man such as myself.
I agree with the authority you quote. Your rendition is confused.
Agreed, if by "HVAC man" you mean someone who can't tell cooling from energy, or BTUs from BTUs/hour. Kind of like the garage mechanic who puts "pounds" of air into tires.
Well, a second tech came out to my house and looked at the unit. He did some checks on the pressure and found one low and one high so he added some freon to maybe flush out a blockage. Then he rechecked the system with the new freon and declared it fixed. As he was packing up the compressor stopped. He said that he could tell the temperature of the compressor by the pressure in psi and that there was a conversion on the guage to shoe how hot the compressor was. I don't get that at all. I've never heard of a pressure to temperature conversion table/convertor. He called in and got instructions on what to do and took the fan off and did something and said the senior tech would have to come out. He didn't leave a bill but the owner's wife called and said I owed them $70 plus freon. Nice people but I doubt that the tech was experienced and she said that putting freon in the system was not a treatment for blockage of the lines. She also said that he should not have quoted me $1500 for a new compressor 700 for the compressor and 800 for 4 hours of labor. I'm afraid to stiff them for the service call because they know where I live but I don't think I got much more than a sweaty shirt from sitting out in ths sun watching and hour of wasted time.
Well, you actually can put pounds of air in tires. And the number of pounds of air you put in will correlate strongly with the resulting pressure in psi !
Now you are mistaking a pound as a unit of mass, when it is a unit of force.
I'd like to see you put 30 pounds of air into a tire. It'll burst way before you even get one pound in there.
And I'm guessing you don't get laid much. Sorry just stumbled on this thread and had to laugh. I mean, geeze guys, if your start brokering in pedantry, at least be right. CJT was quite accurate in his nerdy foray into units, and didn't really need Rich's further intellectual masturbation trying to correct that which didn't need it.
So on a practical note, Rich, unless you know of any air compressors for filling automobile tires in places with a different gravitational constant than what we have here on earth, there is a rather well defined relationship between a pound as a unit of force and the corresponding mass. But yes, we're all impressed you know the difference. And if you go down to 3 significant figures and start waxing about differences in that constant based on elevation or something, I'll have to ask you to give yourself a wedgie and flush your own head in the toilet.
Best Regards,
-- Todd H.
Hmmm, No sense arguing with whom flunked out of HS physics class, LOL!
More of a schoolboy snigger at your own command of naughty words. Let us know when you get the joke.
Make that lbm, then.
My problem seems to have been a block in some line, I guess that carries freon. The third guy, a freind of a relative charged me $300 to fix the problem and charge the system w/ 4 lbs. of freon. I don't know if it was a good price but it was far less than the estimates I got and he didn't have to replace the compressor or "boost" it or anything else.
AKA Gray Asphalt posted for all of us...
So he gave it a laxative?
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