SSLtech
Well-known member
Florida.
Summer.
Heat.
Humidity.
So the Air Conditioning upstairs in my (split A/C) house quit working… -Not a big problem thinks I... -Everyone sleeps downstairs and we can get it looked at over the weekend.
-Later on yesterday evening, the MAIN HOUSE unit quits working. –I investigate, and find the coil is frozen up… one solid block of ice.
I switch the A/C to its “heat” setting, pull the cover off, and point a hair dryer at it, to melt the ice. In doing so, I discover why it froze up… a leak seems to have let a significant amount of the Freon out… The leak of course appears to be in the central air handler's coil… -that’s expensive, -naturally! -But it's not connected to the other A/C unit, so there's still more to fix...
While the ice melts, I discover that the condensate drain is blocked. –Too severely blocked for me to clear using my flexi-drain rods, so I have to go to Home Depot and buy a twist-auger to clear it. –All this while the now-overflowing ice-melt runoff is flowing onto the garage floor, (via the -gypsum-board- A/C plenum... making it nice and soggy, and additionally soaking a few things along the way) -lovely.
So last night I got to bed late, and slept perhaps a total of 2 hours in the oppressive heat and humidity…
As a result, if anyone posts stuff which taxes my (somewhat strained) patience, because they don't understand that people don't have to pay to sell personal items, but that just about EVERYONE seems to agree that it's reasonable for those who financially support the forums to be able to promote their wares in a separate forum which people are quite at liberty to visit or avoid (according to their personal whim), or because they think that "the moderators" acted hastily or without significant consideration in dealing with anyone recently, they may get a rude response...
–Don’t worry though, the Air Conditioning repair people are going to make it all better by determining that my bank accaount needs lightening to the tune of several thousand dollars, I have little doubt!
-Bummed.
..and hot.. –VERY hot.
This morning I climbed into the car at 7AM and set the car’s air conditioning to recreate the conditions halfway up the Briksdal Glacier during a particularly severe winter, in the midst of an an ice-storm. –-it was BLISS!
-So this is to serve notice that I might be short-tempered today. -If however, anyone thinks that I should instead be the very model of polite deference and infinite patience in dealing with the significant number of private messages about a particular recent subject, they they are hereby invited to fly to Florida, rent the appropriate tools and equipment, make the journey to my house, repair either one or both of the blessed A/C units, and I will -at that point- entertain the notion of "seeing it from their point of view". But not before.
You have been warned. -I don't feel 'reasonable' today.
Keef
Summer.
Heat.
Humidity.
So the Air Conditioning upstairs in my (split A/C) house quit working… -Not a big problem thinks I... -Everyone sleeps downstairs and we can get it looked at over the weekend.
-Later on yesterday evening, the MAIN HOUSE unit quits working. –I investigate, and find the coil is frozen up… one solid block of ice.
I switch the A/C to its “heat” setting, pull the cover off, and point a hair dryer at it, to melt the ice. In doing so, I discover why it froze up… a leak seems to have let a significant amount of the Freon out… The leak of course appears to be in the central air handler's coil… -that’s expensive, -naturally! -But it's not connected to the other A/C unit, so there's still more to fix...
While the ice melts, I discover that the condensate drain is blocked. –Too severely blocked for me to clear using my flexi-drain rods, so I have to go to Home Depot and buy a twist-auger to clear it. –All this while the now-overflowing ice-melt runoff is flowing onto the garage floor, (via the -gypsum-board- A/C plenum... making it nice and soggy, and additionally soaking a few things along the way) -lovely.
So last night I got to bed late, and slept perhaps a total of 2 hours in the oppressive heat and humidity…
As a result, if anyone posts stuff which taxes my (somewhat strained) patience, because they don't understand that people don't have to pay to sell personal items, but that just about EVERYONE seems to agree that it's reasonable for those who financially support the forums to be able to promote their wares in a separate forum which people are quite at liberty to visit or avoid (according to their personal whim), or because they think that "the moderators" acted hastily or without significant consideration in dealing with anyone recently, they may get a rude response...
–Don’t worry though, the Air Conditioning repair people are going to make it all better by determining that my bank accaount needs lightening to the tune of several thousand dollars, I have little doubt!
-Bummed.
..and hot.. –VERY hot.
This morning I climbed into the car at 7AM and set the car’s air conditioning to recreate the conditions halfway up the Briksdal Glacier during a particularly severe winter, in the midst of an an ice-storm. –-it was BLISS!
-So this is to serve notice that I might be short-tempered today. -If however, anyone thinks that I should instead be the very model of polite deference and infinite patience in dealing with the significant number of private messages about a particular recent subject, they they are hereby invited to fly to Florida, rent the appropriate tools and equipment, make the journey to my house, repair either one or both of the blessed A/C units, and I will -at that point- entertain the notion of "seeing it from their point of view". But not before.
You have been warned. -I don't feel 'reasonable' today.
Keef
!!!!! I deserve this because I often share my opinions here on what the best capacitor is and I once helped a guy wire his G9 properly :-*. I should be compensated for my input.
