Comfortmaker HVAC System Overview and A/C Startup
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- Опубликовано: 26 май 2012
- It's summer and the heat is definitely on! By request, here is an overview of my Comfortmaker EnviroPlus HVAC system and a startup of the air conditioning system.
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"Clips that go PLING into the great beyond" The sound no homeowner wants to hear! Great video Bill, makes me yearn for central air! - Lj
It sounds perfect and pretty quiet for furnaces that I heard that were installed in members of my family's houses of course they were different brand furnaces such as Nordyne or American Standard or Payne brands
working on computers well down to household appliances, very nice. quite interesting how you accomplished fixing the unit when the tech guy said it cant be done.
Thank You so much, uxwbill! Our local Library has one of those EnviroPlus 90 furnaces except for it's an Arco-Aire
it's been pretty cool in NY. barely got up to 80 yesterday.
Keeping them clean is the key to kepping them efficient and running well. I try to get somebody here every 2 years to do a professional check and clean. In between I will usually once or twice a summer clean it myself. Dad taught me well. LOL.
Totally agree about that. Still here at home we don't have A/C because we are "lucky" enough to live on top of a hill where it always blow some kind of wind from some direction.
Still sometimes 35°C with humidity is really unbearable. We can still deal with dry 40°C, still not a thing to stay outside in the sun and get our brain cooked like an egg! ahah Nice review!
I use a pressure washer with a low pressure stream to clean the coils of dirt. Amazing how brown the water draining off is.
We had our ac unit replaced when it got hit by lightening two years ago, the new ac unit outdoors is almost as tall as I am and I'm 6'3!
It's alive!!!
To help even out the temperature difference between rooms, you can do what is called "zoning". In the cooler rooms, close the registers slightly in order to divert more flow to the warmer rooms. After some trial and error, you will probably see some improvement.
My boss' furnace at home had the inducer motor go out not too long ago, was an expensive repair!
I live in Wisconsin and are weather has been pretty cool and we haven't had any problems with bees or wasps at all
We have a filter like that, but ours is called Dust Fighter 95. I got lazy and started using disposable filters, but I might go back to the permanent one this Summer.
Too bad our house is so old that the central air can't get it much below 75-78 degrees on hot days.
LOL, I should make a video of my electric meter. Looks like a 78 rpm record sometimes. But I think our central air is a 10 ton unit.
Hey Bill ,, You can replace that motor if you have futher problems. Just match up the specs at grainger. they carry a good selection.. i had to repace my condensor motor and grainger had it on the shelf. just use there motor mach up guide, put the specs in and it will show you a couple motors to replace it with ,,A motor like that will run about $60
nice to share your story mr.stelmer i subscribed wouldnt mind seeing some of it!
That EnviraStation has me envious. It is so much fancier than the Meade Instruments doodad I have set down on a speaker.
Have you ever found the lower levels of a house to be cooler than the upper ones? My bedroom is usually 3-5 degrees, give or take decimal values, hotter than the room underneath it according to my as-previously-mentioned hunk of plastic goodishness.
9:49 Ooh a nest thermostat!
Looks like you have had a good fight to keep it going bill, in the current weather conditions im sure it will make the house soo much nicer :-)
All you need is a similar unit for the guarage and a bucket full of dollars to pay the electricity vendor lol, hmm "A Bucket Full Of Dollars" sounds like a bankers western lol.
Part fridge, part fan, part heating system, clever.
We dont use them in the uk but if this weather continues baking us we may have to :-(
Smashing vid bill :-)
His Comfortmaker was made by Inter-City Product which at the time was not a UTC brand. But Comfortmaker and Inter-City was "bought out" by International Comfort Products (ICP) which is an UTC brand. Before Comfortmaker was made by Inter-City it was made by SnyderGeneral. SnyderGeneral revived Comfortmaker at it's start up and got it from AFCO, a furnace company based in St Louis, MO. SnyderGeneral was a division of Singer before being spun off as SnyderGeneral.
What area did the window unit in the background do?
I have the same comfortmaker central Ac installed in 1996 paired with a 2012 Lennox furnace. The condensate pan was replaced in October 2012 after the original comfortmaker furnace developed a hole in the heat exchanger. The Ac still works great and as far as I know has its original R22 charge and capacitors. Our furnace repair company has suggested a few times now that we have the Ac unit replaced but at the rate we seem to be going it would just make more sense to get a few more years out of the Lennox furnace and just buy a whole new Ac and furnace down the road. Are yours still in operation?
Very much so.
we have a old 60's or 70's carrier evaporator coil with a '03 carrier gas furnace and a new good man aka junk man condenser
Hey Bill are you using a Next thermostat?
If so awesome!
Is your exchanger/evap coil mounted right above your furnace blower motor? Isn't that not the greatest place to put it in regards to cooling efficiency?
My HVAC guy told me that the coil must be mounted after the furnace's heat exchanger else the heat exchanger will rust out from the cool air flowing over it.
You should scan those brochures and share them online...
Your Lennox had no circuit boards or inducer motor. I still have my similar Lennox, although I toy with replacement. Grandparents were Lennox dealers. I wonder if UTC Carrier owns your brand. Good vid...
Only 40% humidity? Lucky! Its been in the 80s with 60-80% humidity here!
Old CRT monitors sitting next to the furnace... just like in my basement!
Can you film your air conditioner and furnace?
@uxwbill a video of you straightening the fins with your nifty fin comb please?
Where's the burner in this unit? If it's a 80% model, is the burners in the white thing. If it's a 90% like I think it is (my Local Library has two of these same models but Arco-Aire units), it should be up at the top.
Can you do a video of it starting in HEAT mode this winter?
You do know that HVAC Professionals refer to them as Comfort Shakers. They are probably referring to the round models.
Only UXWBill could make a video of an air condition performing it's normal duties entertaining.
my AC stopped and i went to the box out side, left the switch OFF for an hour go back to it and turn it back ON and oddly enough it worked, just a tip for anyone having problems with their AC not turning on, this just might work like it did for me...
Lights dim at 9:33 :)
aren't you suppose to replace furnace filters every 4 months or something?
its 2023 and we still dont have AC.
I have my portable AC but that only cools you down if you sit in front of it. not a room.
Whats the window ac all about ?(in the background)
It served a part of the house that wasn't well served by the central system. I also used it as a dehumidifier. Since the plastic outdoor fan grenaded, it's long since been removed.
not gonna lie, 720p uxwbill would be amazing
paper filters???
wow...
gotta love central air...to bad it makes our hydro bills sky rocket lol
Since you have Central Air Conditioning, why do you use Window AC Units?
Using the Central Air Conditioning and Window AC isn't that hard on your power system, since it is a old setup.
You got lucky with your Gas Furnace and the flood, most times when your basement flood your Furnace is a total loss!!
Not a big fan of the high efficiency furnaces. i have lived in two different places both high efficiency furnaces. And they run way to much for something that climes to be energy saving and the air that comes out is only warm.
@kbhasikevin2 Aww I wish RUclips mobile allowed me to delete comments!
Noisy!
Watch out for the flood of 2014! I know it is coming...
umm...
If the heat exchanger was half submerged, no amount of cleaning is going to make that rig safe to fire up unattended. Spend $3,000 and you and your family will be safe.
You are incorrect.