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05-27-2011, 09:41 PM #1
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mismatched units
what are the results of installing a 2 ton condenser to a 1 and 1/2 evaporated[/LIST]
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05-27-2011, 09:45 PM #2
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Welcome EH!
Bummer about the mismatch.
Need more information, make and model numbers of both condenser and evap coil, size of piston or metering device txv ect.
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05-27-2011, 09:59 PM #3
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Welcome here.
Please post this question in the Residential section, you will get more response there.
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05-27-2011, 10:05 PM #4
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You typically don't want to have a condenser larger than the evaporator. But submit the specs.
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05-27-2011, 10:35 PM #5
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I don't know what the make is of the airhandlers is but they ar e over twenty years old. The condensers are Goodman. This is an apartment complex with many years of inexperienced techs playing with the units. Their idea of increasing cooling was to put 2ton condensers on a 1and1/2 ton airhandler
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05-27-2011, 10:51 PM #6
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Bad idea!
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05-27-2011, 10:53 PM #7
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Adverse affects could be frozen indoor coils or lack of cooling due to improper metering or compressor failures due to refrigerant floodback.
Possible benefit; superior dehumidification.
General concensus; really bad idea.Government is a disease......masquerading as its own cureEcclesiastes 10:2 NIV
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06-02-2011, 11:09 AM #8
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Welcome! Hmmmm....I wonder what those words in red mean up above??? Might try asking this in the residential or general sections.
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