Keeping Your Air Conditioner In Service
We either pay our motor mechanic a little amount now, for a routine service, or pay a lot more, later, for a major repair. The same idea holds true, for your air conditioners, if you don’t service your air conditioners regularly, you’ll find yourself uncomfortable and out of pocket.
Air conditioners are a very tough piece of equipment and engineered to withstand all types of misuse and keep on working. This is great in most respects, but it can lead to complacency about maintenance. Like a car, air conditioners need regular tune-ups to run properly.
Maintain good efficiency
Without regular maintenance air conditioners loose about 5% of their original efficiency, for each year of operation. The good news is that you can recover most of that lost efficiency through regular maintenance. Tests have shown that with regular maintenance, units will maintain up to 95% of their original efficiency. This means, the cost of an annual service, is recovered very quickly, with savings on monthly electricity bills and a reduction in repair costs. Properly serviced air conditioners will also do a better job of dehumidifying your offices or home.
Many local air conditioning firms offer special prices during the colder months of the year. A few companies even offer annual service programs, which ensure that you be reminded, of the need to service the unit, at the beginning of the cooler seasons.
Ensure high level comfort
The service check should include cleaning the condensing unit coils, checking the amp draw of the compressor, oiling the fan motors, checking that belts are well adjusted, and checking the system operating pressures and temperatures against the manufacturer’s specifications. One of the most important items to check is the coolant level in air conditioners.
There are some things in addition to yearly tune-ups that you can do to help ensure a high level of comfort and proper system operation. First, clean and change air filters on a regular basis. Next, keep bushes and other materials away from the outside unit of your air conditioner. Try to avoid closing supply air outlets, as in almost all cases, closing supply outlets, is harmful to the operation of the overall system.
Even with modern technology, today’s air conditioners also benefit from routine services and yearly services. They recover much of their lost efficiency, they are less likely to suffer a major break down and have a longer life span, increase your comfort and operate at a lower cost.
Significance of air conditioners
Air conditioning engineers broadly divide air conditioners uses into comfort and process. Comfort applications aim to provide an indoor environment, which remains relatively constant, in a range preferred by humans, despite changes in external weather conditions, or in internal heat loads.
Air conditioners make wide plan buildings feasible, otherwise they would have to be built narrower or with light vents, so that inner spaces receive sufficient outdoor air via natural ventilation. Air conditioners assist in taller buildings, since wind speed increases significantly with altitude, natural ventilation is impractical for very tall buildings.
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