AC unit freezing up.
This is our third weekend using our ac and the other two times it worked great. This time the unit has frozen up twice. We like it cold the first time the ac was on 60 and today it froze up when it wa...
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Cuffs054 wrote:
So when you're running the unit on high both evaporator is blowing hard (good) but so is condenser which could drop the delta temp and over whelm the evap. I got this thought in a blinding flash. Unfortunetly I'm never sure if it is revolutionary or just another tia!
Sorry it does not work that way. The evaporator, condenser and compressor all operate on predictable performance curves. when operating in a system, you can plot the performance and graphically predict the balance point for that set of operating conditions. If you move more air over the condenser and the evaporator, it will increase the heat transfer and the unit will find a new balance point and it will not "overwhelm" the evaporator.
I have worked with heat transfer, thermodynamics, A/C and refrigeration since 1970 and it is not something that can be easily explained to a non-engineer in a few paragraphs.
It is amazing at the amount of misinformation on many subject you can find on the internet. You have to use dome common sense and filter out the male bovine poop.
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