shadow460
Senior Apprentice Appliantologist
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This is one of those with the slinger ring on it. I cleaned both coils yesterday and vacuumed out the metal pan. There's a plastic pan under the evaporator coil that's still filling up, and sometimes when the fan kicks off, it runs over that, over the metal pan, and down the wall.
When I pulled the unit yesterday, the wooden support was totally soaked, and there was water running down the wall. Still, the pan under the evap still fills up, and if you shut the unit completely off, the water will run over the edge of both pans and out of the unit.
The top of the unit is about 1/4 to 3/8 inch further into the wall than the bottom. This tells me that the unit is, in fact, leaned slightly back in relation to the wall.
The unit also makes the random click and pop here and there. It sounds like stuff (besides water) is hitting the fan blades. It was a whole lot worse before I cleaned the coils.
Is the unit designed to run with the plastic drain pan under the evaporator full, or is there some way for condensate to run from that pan to where the condenser fan can catch it? Most AC units I have worked with don't run with the pan full at all. Given the proper lean, clean fan blades, a clean filter, and clean coils, how does one stop the unit leaking into the room?
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