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Air Conditioners
Summertime is a time for family, recreation, vacations, and air conditioning. When the heat and humidity start to take their toll, air conditioners are an essential part of an enjoyable summer. To make sure that you are never without air conditioning on a hot and humid summer day, we offer the following information. How does air conditioning work? What are the essential ingredients for cooling? What kind of AC unit is right for your home? And, how can you reduce the cost of cooling your home throughout the summer months?
Cost Calculator for Air Conditioners
When you purchase an air conditioner you will pay for the equipment and the installation. And, you will pay to run your AC to keep your home comfortable. There will be maintenance costs and you will need to pay for repairs when required. Take a look at our cost calculator before considering any quotes from dealers or AC technicians. One of the first things to consider is what kind of system you need and what capacity it has to have. If you only need an air conditioner, that is one thing but if you need to heat your home as well, you need to consider a furnace or perhaps a heat pump that can do both jobs. Energy efficiency is important as are ease of operation and a quiet-running unit.
When Was Air Conditioning Invented?
Although refrigeration was first invented in 1851, it was not until the dawn of the 20th century that Willis Haviland Carrier invented a machine that cooled indoor spaces. The term air conditioner was patented around this time. However, home air conditioning units were not available until 1929 and it took until 1947 for affordable home air conditioners to appear on the market.
How Does Air Conditioning Work?
The majority of air conditioning units use a refrigeration cycle to cool the air in your home. But, some use evaporation to achieve the same goal.
Components
of Your Air Conditioner
Air conditioning systems have five major components.
Thermostat: This is the device that monitors temperature and turns the AC unit on and off in order to maintain your home temperature within the desired range.
Evaporator: This is the core or coil full of refrigerant that absorbs heat and creates the cold used to cool your home. It is where liquid refrigerant turns to gas.
Condenser: This is the unit outside of your home where the refrigerant loses the heat it picked up in the evaporator.
Expansion valve: The expansion valve is where warm, liquid refrigerant turns to cool liquid refrigerant on its way to the evaporator.
Compressor: This is the part of the system that increased the pressure and temperature of the refrigerant before it gets back to the evaporator.
Air Conditioner Types
There are different kinds of air conditioners and they are useful in different situations.
Split AC Systems
A split AC system has two distinct parts, one inside the house and the other outside of the house. The cold expansion value and evaporator coil part are inside your home. The system is placed in your furnace or other air-handling system. The air-handling system blows air over the coil and through the ducts throughout your home. The hot part is the condenser unit which sits on a cement slab outside of your home where it releases heat.
Ductless AC Units
A ductless AC system is a split system as well. But, the cooling unit that takes heat out of your home is mounted on an inside wall. It contains the evaporator and a small fan that blows cool air directly into the room where the unit is mounted. The outside part is the condenser and, like with the other split system it is placed outside of your home. If you want to cool more than one room with this kind of system you typically need wall-mounted cooling units in more than one room.
Packaged AC Units
These are inside units that contain all of the parts of the system in one box. The heat is generated using natural gas or a heat lamp run by electricity.
A packaged terminal AC system is also known as a wall-split AC system. They are usually installed in the wall of a building with the cooling parts on the inside and the condenser parts of exhausting heat on the outside.
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