Can An Air Conditioning Attached To The Furnace In Your House Blow Up?
July 1, 2009 by admin
Filed under Air Conditioning
Every once in a while you hear of bgger industrial air conditionings on sky scrapers or commercial buildings getting old, and then people reposrt a big bang, and the air conditioning blows up.
Can this happen to a house airconditioning???
And what signs should you look for when you try your air conditioning out for the first time in the spring after a cold canadian winter?
Dan and Irv are right. Your home A/C unit isn’t likely yo explode on you. Your water heater however…. that is a different story.
The first thing you should do before you fire up your A/C is to make sure it warm enough outside. Operating the unit when it is below, say 55F (13C) is inviting liquid refrigerant to damage your compressor. Slugging is the term.
Other things to check:
- Clean filter
- Clean condenser (outside) coil. Just hose it down. Be careful not to bend or damage the fins. If it looks really dirty, then call for a service tech to do it. They will come armed with a foaming coil cleaner that will fix it right up.
- How’s your evaporator (inside) coil? Be honest now. How many times has the furnace been run with a damaged filter or none at all? Smokers in the home perhaps? Might consider having a pro clean it then.
G’luck!
I have never seen any residential units do that( I don’t work on commercial units). The first startup requires a visual inspection, remove accumulated leaves from around outdoor unit, make sure the fan is turning on the outdoor unit, check for any chewed wires, put a fresh air filter in the indoor unit, turn or block off humidifier if so equipped, after it operates a little while make sure condensate drain is running freely.
no it can the motor can go , and it can get on fire but it can,t bblow up. lot of people hear the fan brake lose and hit the housing .
Big industrial air conditioners sometimes use steam, (chillers),
some will use flammable refrigerant.
This is not the case with domestic units.
Not to worry.