Time for a new A/C ?
SO we are getting ready for a trip next week and DW says A/C is blowing hot air. Well it's not hot just not very cold.
So I pull the cover and the compressor is too hot to touch.
Coils are all clear and flowing air.
So first thought is it is not starting. But I've got a warm line to the condenser and the capillary tube is ice cold.
I pull the cover off the evaporator and find a lump of ice at the point the capillary tube connected to the evaporator. The rest of the evaporator is at ambient temperature.
Shut it down and within 2 minutes the ice is gone. Total amount of ice was about the size of an ice cube.
Let it sit about 10 minutes and restarted it. Within 2 minutes the ice has returned at the same spot.
Thinking I have a very small leak at that point.
If so considering the unit is over 6 year old, might as well swap it rather than get into repairing an old unit.
So I pull the cover and the compressor is too hot to touch.
Coils are all clear and flowing air.
So first thought is it is not starting. But I've got a warm line to the condenser and the capillary tube is ice cold.
I pull the cover off the evaporator and find a lump of ice at the point the capillary tube connected to the evaporator. The rest of the evaporator is at ambient temperature.
Shut it down and within 2 minutes the ice is gone. Total amount of ice was about the size of an ice cube.
Let it sit about 10 minutes and restarted it. Within 2 minutes the ice has returned at the same spot.
Thinking I have a very small leak at that point.
If so considering the unit is over 6 year old, might as well swap it rather than get into repairing an old unit.
