Air Conditioning

Do you have an air conditioner? I don't. I did have one, but somebody came into my house and stole it. I figured they were just trying to tell me that I'm really, really hot.

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the concept of Air conditioning is to remove heat and put it(heat) somewhere else.. little bucket isnt removing heat like a condenser would. In fact :air conditioning: is the process of heating, cooling, cleaning, removing or adding humidity.

its just a bucket of ice with wind.
the work energy created is making more heat than its removing/rejecting.

 

The one at my work is broken right now. Sooo fucking hot in there

 

very little components on an AC to break, all serviceable and should be up and running in the hour with a little maintenance work..

 

Not when it was built over 50 years ago and the oil gasket breaks and no more parts to it

We r getting a new one in 2 months cuz the store is being remodeled but it's like 85 degrees in there

 

Yep ... and leaving your refrigerator door open will actually heat the room up, rather than cooling it down.

(I've still never managed to figure out how a gas fridge works, though ... I mean, how can you actually create cold by burning gas???)

 

oil gasket ?? confusion sets in .. on what part of the machine needs an oil gasket?.
Only oil goes in the compressor. The compressor is sealed or semi sealed.
if this is a semi-hermetic compressor > it must be really big to be that old.
Do you know where the compressor is, where the air handler evaporator is, where the condenser is, and or what type refrigerant is used?
It couldnt be that old. 20yrs maybe 50yrs would be pushing some safety regulation and in California , I dont think that would happen. but never know. we do find old stuff all the time still in service.

 

gas works by boiling ammonia. As the ammonia boils it vaporizes. The vapors rise up to the evaporator. This cools. It then collects and turns to liquid and falls back down thru some tubing to be boiled again by flame.

Ammonia is a great refrigerant however its dangerous .. In large facilities with Ammonia they have wind socks all around, case of leak you want to be upwind from Ammonia leak..

 

I work In A huge department store and this location has been around since 1962 I think. They had someone come out to look at it and there just what they said. I know nothing about it. Definitely not the first time it's broken either

 

i usually explain gas coolers work by change of state...utilizing boiling points to advantage

and electric generally do it by changing pressures (hence they have compressors)...althought some old ones are electric ammonia and use electric heat instead of a flame

 

We have one AC in the living room window and we have another window AC. That one is in my son's room. Hubby's and my bdrm is extremely hot, being that it's on the 2nd floor, w no AC and I am bout 7 months pregnant. (thank God we at least have a fan in there!)... but anyways, considering getting another window AC.

Ginalee, someone just came in your house and took your AC? Did they take anything else? And was it someone you knew... like someone visiting or some random person just walked in and took it? That's a bit odd.

 

I never figured out who did it but I suspect the old tenant downstairs might've done it. He didn't pay his last two months of rent before abandoning his furniture and trash and vanishing. I ended up with his furniture because the landlord said I could have whatever he left down there. I think he decided to go "shopping" in my apartment before taking off.

Oh, the reason why I don't know if it was that guy for sure is because a few months later, somebody stole one of my parakeets. The bird didn't disappear into thin air, and there's no way the bird could've flown out of the house or a window. I looked for a dead bird for weeks, never found it, so somebody stole the friggen thing.

 

My house is a passive cooling unit... Or "semi-passive" as I do use the ceiling fans in the greatroom, but they don't heat at any appreciable level. My "refrigerant" is underground air that is drawn up through the spiral staircase from the basement under the master bedroom/bathroom. I know "cold air rising" makes no sense until you put your hand into that stairwell and feel it. It probably wouldn't work with regular stairs, the screw-shape has something to do with it. The cold air circulates through the house and exits out through the garage end... I need to have a window/door open on that end of the house to make it work properly and I can control how much "cool" with the basement doors. It's more like a swamp cooler system but I can actually get a 10 degree temp differential by the end of the day when it's at it's hottest outside and it's not as damp inside as an evaporative system.

 

Yikes. I'd be really freaked out if anyone came in here and took anything at all. At the very least making sure I had some good bolt locks and all.

 

sound like an old tenant might still have keys ....

 

Is there an opening ty, does it go to a mine or anything?

 

I thought of that, of course. But my apartment was empty for more than a year before I moved in so I'm sure the prior tenants had long since moved on.

 

We have a swamp cooler that's seen better days. It sometimes works okay but 80 is about as cool as it gets during the summer. Lately it's been about 85 degrees at night in the living room, close to the window with the swamp cooler and probably about 90 in the bedroom where I sleep. Night time sucks.

My car's got an a/c though! It was giving me shit yesterday but I guess it figured out whatever was up and today it works just fine. lol

 

Ramona, Have you replaced the pads in the cooler lately?

 

We have one big window unit but it doesn't cool the bedrooms down. I dont mind sleeping in the heat, it reminds me of my childhood when we had no ac and I also feel like I detoxify a little while I sleep.