Q&A on Types of Air Conditioner

Q&A about the different types of air conditioing system & eqiupment.

This article series provides a guide to types of air conditioners & cooling or heat pump systems.

Q&A on Air Conditioning System Types

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Home made condenser installation located indoors

Curious if anyone has seen this type of a/c unit - single family home split into two units with one of each of these for each side.

Delivery is by a large "box" located centrally in the ceiling of each unit. - On 2019-01-06 by Jennifer

Reply by (mod) -

Looks to me [photo above] like a home-made or modified AC system - the "attic box" you describe is probably the air handler.

But look further. Somewhere we need to find the fan and coil that cools hot compressed refrigerant gas back to liquid refrigerant - that ought to be outdoors.

Question: How can I add air conditioning / cooling for my apartment?

I recently purchased a co-op which had what I thought to be a heating/ cooling system like in many motels. Instead, I discovered that the unit is only a fan that brings air up from a central heating and AC unit in the basement.

What's more, the two cannot be viable at the same time and that causes problems during the transition months. Now, today was the first really hot day where I live and when the temp reached the upper 70s it had trouble cooling the room.

When it rose to 90 degrees, the unit was almost worthless. I live in a studio apt that has about 500 square feet.

Please advise me on how I can cool my apt? I like it at about 65-67 degrees w/ little humidity. Today the humidity was 35%. I cringe when I think of those 95 degree, 95% humidity days and nights. Help! (June 18, 2014) Anonymous

Reply:

Anon you may be able to install a portable, window, or through-wall A/C unit as well as closing off a register that's supplying heat when you don't want it. Review this concern with building management.

Certainly some co-ops have restrictions on what you can poke through a wall or out of a window.

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