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Choosing
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Your
home may be trying to tell you something.
Trane understands the sense of frustration that surrounds the purchase
of an air conditioner, furnace, or other part of your heating and
cooling comfort system. It's not like buying any other appliance,
is it? And while it may not be necessary to learn how to completely
program your VCR, learning to get the most out of your home comfort
system may be one of the most important things you'll do as a homeowner.
Take a look around your home. Are any of these situations familiar:
Cooking odors that linger in the kitchen for days on end. One room
in your home that is always warmer or colder than others. A bathroom
that's humid and damp. If any of these remind you of your home --
it is trying to tell you something.
Your house is not just a floor plan; it's an environmental system.
And that system can gradually slip out of balance. In other words,
maybe it's time to take a long, hard look at your home.
How an Air Conditioner Conditions Air
A little chemistry, a little physics, and a whole bunch of tubes and
wires. Here are the basics of keeping cool.
An air conditioner makes your home cooler, true. But in terms of how
the system actually works, it's more accurate so say that an air conditioner
makes your home less warm. What it's really doing is drawing heat
energy out of the house and transferring that heat to the outdoors
(where it's already so blasted hot that nobody notices the difference).
1. A gas (the refrigerant) flows into the compressor, where high pressure
turns the refrigerant into a liquid. The compressor pumps this chilly
liquid through tubes to .
2. The evaporator coil. Here the cold, liquid refrigerant absorbs
heat energy from the surrounding air and turns back into a gas. Also,
humidity from warm indoor air condenses on the evaporator and drains
away. Meanwhile
3. A blower draws warm air from the house, moves it through the evaporator
where heat energy is removed and blows this air on through the ductwork
into your house -- cooler, dryer and altogether more pleasant. As
for the heat energy removed from that air.
4. The once-gaseous, then-liquid, now-once-again-gaseous refrigerant
carries that heat energy back to the outdoor unit. Here the refrigerant
passes through the condenser (sometimes called the condensing coil)
where metal fins around the tubing transfer heat to the surrounding
air, which is moved over the condenser by
5. An exhaust fan. So you see, that air blowing out the top of your
outdoor unit is so hot because it contains heat energy that was inside
your house just a couple of minutes before. Whew! |
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