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COboondocker
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Jul 06, 2016

Strange sweet smell coming from air conditioner

Our A/C (coleman-mach) has a strange smell, kind of sweet, almost like some type of aerosol spray lube. I can't quite put my finger on it but my wife thought it smelled like freon. I can't recall the ...
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COboondocker
Explorer
Jul 06, 2016
dougrainer wrote:
If you had a Freon/410 leak bad enough for you to smell it inside, it would then NOT cool. You state it has cooled correctly for a few days. They only hold 1 lb. of coolant, and if a leak bad enough to smell inside, it would not have enough coolant to continue cooling. Something else is causing that smell. Check the upper unit condenser and evap for foreign debris. Doug



Thanks, I'll get up there tonight and check.

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