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stew47
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Aug 02, 2017

Domestic ac freeze up

Well we had a successful trip to Panama City beach. Only cost a new truck lol and an ac that froze up in northern ga. It wasn't particular warm that night. What are some causes of freeze up and should I have looked at?

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  • Is this ducted or standard air box? I addition to the good advice already given, keep in mind, if the outside temp is near 80 or lower, the inside coil temp will be below freezing.
  • I've seen one freeze when the divider between the supply air and the return air intake comes loose or leaking a lot of cold air into the return.

    My neighbor's unit had a piece of plywood taped in with aluminium duct tape. It came loose.
  • popeyemth wrote:
    Some causes:
    1-low freon
    2-restricted air flow (dirty,clogged)
    3-freeze sensor has come loose/fallen
    4-running fan on low speed in high humidity


    Right on!

    ADD:

    5-plugged condensate drain

    Chum lee
  • It was running on low. It was cool but probably a decent amount of humidity.
  • When it's humid outside I find I need to run our Dometic AC with fan set on high as it has frozen up on me a couple of times. Another time we had it freeze up is when we had a roof vent and a bedroom window partially open. No more issues now that we employ these tactics, it wasn't a big deal anyway as we just shut down AC for a few minutes to allow ice build-up to dissipate and restarted AC again without further issues.
  • Some causes:
    1-low freon
    2-restricted air flow (dirty,clogged)
    3-freeze sensor has come loose/fallen
    4-running fan on low speed in high humidity

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