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Cole
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RandR,
Thanks for informing C.com.
What are the essential services needed in a tune-up?
What are unnecessary services that consumers should stay away? |
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RandR
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| Posted: 25 Mar 2008 09:50 PM Post subject: |
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| verbal wrote: | RandR,
Thanks for informing C.com.
What are the essential services needed in a tune-up?
What are unnecessary services that consumers should stay away? |
My pleasure! A good tune-up will involve checking and adjusting refrigerant and air flow levels. Not easy to do, but it is part of the IID "Check Me! Service". A third party, Proctor Engineering, analyzes field data and tells the "Check Me!" trained tech what to do to get the AC working at max efficiency. Any tune-up should involve washing your AC's condensor coil (a copper coil that generally wraps around the AC's compressor). That service is extremely important.
Unecessary services that I've come across are indoor air quality upgrades. They are supposed to be the most effective way to improve air quality inside the home, but they are expensive to install and usually a fuss to maintain. If not maintained these indoor air quality products (Electronic Air Cleaners, HEPA systems, thick media filters, etc) can be counter productive. Not worth it unless you have severe asthma or something, at least that's what I think. |
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Cole
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| Posted: 25 Aug 2008 02:59 PM Post subject: |
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RandR
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| Posted: 25 Aug 2008 10:14 PM Post subject: |
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| verbal wrote: | | How serious is a power outage to the AC? |
There is a problem that can pop up when the power comes back on -- a power spike. This can damage the AC's control boards, and those can be a bit pricey t replace depending on the brand.
Sometimes power doesn't go out completely and a building will get low voltage. That is usually more damaging to the AC because compressors will burn out if they run for a while on anything less than 200 volts. |
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chuco boy
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| Posted: 26 Aug 2008 12:36 PM Post subject: A/C |
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Cole
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| Posted: 26 Aug 2008 03:37 PM Post subject: |
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| RandR wrote: | | verbal wrote: | | How serious is a power outage to the AC? |
There is a problem that can pop up when the power comes back on -- a power spike. This can damage the AC's control boards, and those can be a bit pricey t replace depending on the brand.
Sometimes power doesn't go out completely and a building will get low voltage. That is usually more damaging to the AC because compressors will burn out if they run for a while on anything less than 200 volts. |
Thanks. As I was growing up, adults would always freak out when the power went out and the first they checked was to make sure the AC was turned off. |
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