Home Air Conditioning Unit - Repair or Replace?

[Red Squirrel]

It's a big job as they need to bleed the system out and collect the refrigerant, desolder (debrase?) the compressor to change it then braise new one in and refill. But 1k still seems a little steep for that.

If the compressor is still under warranty than I imagine the unit is not that old.

Is it just me or do newer AC units break down more? At work we have buildings with really old units and they just keep chugging along but the ones with new units need to be serviced all the time.

We had both new units dump their glycol load all over one of our data centres, like a week apart! AC fail followed by high temp then followed by fire alarm is something that will sure wake you the hell up when working night shift. :biggrin: The glycol created a haze in the air which then triggered the fire alarm.

 

[iwajabitw]

OP I would check two things that are easy fixes that you can do yourself. Check the capacitor and then check the relay.

A/C guys are notorious on telling home owners the whole unit is shot and you need to replace it when all you need is a 40 dollar part.


EDIT**** iwajabitw you suck. why did you necro this?

Been gone awhile, what did I do?

 

[iwajabitw]

In my apartment, we have a 1.5 ton for 1000 sq.ft.. but get this when the apartment was build in the 80s someone tried to save a buck and went with 1/4" copper line. The Line coming out of the Roof unit and Air Handler is 3/8ths.. fuckers so basically it runs all night to get to 73F in the apartment.

See a lot of this on units before 80's. GE units(Trane) and Comfort Maker from that era had 1/4 liquid, 1/2 suction ports. One apartment community I service actually had Carrier installed in the early 80s. I'd say 75% still original today, but with 3/8 and 5/8 linesets.

 

[faisalali]

price to get a brand new unit + installation ($1400-$1600), which option would make the most sense?

 

[Genx87]

This thread has it all. Multiple necro and skull trying to troll and nobody biting.