I really wish more AC coil cleaning videos were longer, more complete from start to finish and edited way less. It’s my favourite genre of video to enjoy because it is so incredible satisfying. Makes me sad that vloggers and techs cut out so much satisfying footage during editing.
I'll be honest, I'm not a fan of heat pumps but you did a great job cleaning that. May I suggest a pressure washer called a "coil jet", it's designed as a low pressure aircon coil cleaner and with coil cleaner liquid will greatly improve your HP efficiency. You can even get a hose you can use to get inside the top of the fan to push bio matter out the way it came in and the coil jet cleaner has an adjuster for ratio of water and chemical depending what the coil cleaner fluid recommends.
Jimmy, watch for ice on it during freeze/thaw cycles and ice storms. I've seen people go so far as to putting an open sided roof over those units to keep rain, sleet and snow off of it. People in the deep south don't typically have to deal with that, and that's why it is a more popular choice down there.
Keep in mind. Your heatpump is supposed to go into defrost as the outdoor coil sensor starts sensing ice build up. Essentially going into air conditioning mode, where the outdoor coil get super hot and melts the ice, but at that time your electric heaters in the air handle are supposed to bang on so you dont get a blast of cold air in the middle of winter. So maybe the outdoor coil sensor is going bad. Or the defrost board.
My system freezes up too in very cold conditions and it’s clean, I think it’s just due to it being cold moist air coming into contact with the cold fins. Also the recirculating filter in the house needs to be very clean, any restriction there causes a low pressure area to form in our hallway where the filter is, the low pressure then drops the recycling air temperature , which you need to reheat again, thats very inefficient
After you cleaned it and you show a temp of approximately 100 degrees is that the emergency heat temp or the heat pump heat? I'm in a rental home with a heat pump and I hate it. I've checked the vent air and it blows right at 70 degrees and it's in the mid to upper 30's outside. The owner says that's normal, I think he's just to cheap to fix it. I'll bet the vents in house are blowing warmer than 70 degree's.
About how long was the unit not cleaned for before you had to clean it? As soon as it hits below 40 here my heat runs all day barely able to hold 66 and its only a about 2 years old
Have you determined if there was a problem. My unit is four years old. It fell to 9 degrees overnight and I awaken to 56 degrees in the house. 😢 unit is inspected and maintained twice a year.
@Checkthisjunkout Heat pumps transfer heat from the outside to the inside, and the opposite in cooling mode. At 9 degrees, there is just not enough heat in the air for the unit to run efficiently. If it's that cold, it's best to run on the emergency heat strips, or the outside unit will just run hard all night. Your system is probably fine. Most will struggle below 20 degrees.
@@CarolinaCoinHunter Don’t the heat strips come on anyway when the system is not able to maintain the set temperature without them? So if I switch the unit to emergency heat, that wouldn’t do anything more, would it?
@Checkthisjunkout It would keep you from potentially damaging the compressor. If it can't keep up, it will run the crap out of it, and it can get extremely hot.
If the heat strips are on it will indicate auxiliary heat, and they also engage in defrost mode when the flow of refrigerant reverses back to ac mode sending hot liquid refrigerant to defrost the outside coil.
Hello, I have Amana prestige 2. The heating unit works great except for when the outdoor temperature drops under 40’s. So, if a cool front comes through and the outside air drops down into the 30-40's at night or even during the day, the heating unit will not turn on to heat the inside. The inside blower continues to run. After a few hours, and a few turn-on-off the heating pump may work or may not. This will happen over and over. I have to shut the unit off. I replaced the condenser with a new one and it is still the same. I also do not have this problem when the outside temperature is 50-60's, the heating unit starts and runs fine. Can anyone give me any feedback on what may be causing this? Any information you can give me would be greatly appreciated.
Oh yeah... call a "professional". I know alot about many things. Always had a lot of time to learn much from many sources about many things. Always thinking about what I am learning. Always paying good attention to details. And I have watched so called "professionals" do their jobs (not only heat pump, but other things too, like carpentry, electrical, and more). I have seen "professionals" do dumb things that are wrong. Then I see the results of it. Not all "professionals" are actually, really "professional". Some just don't care about their work anymore. Some cheated their way to good marks in their schooling so it looks like they know their stuff and get hired. Some just simply became lazy and take short cuts. There are even people who know little about their work that got hired because they're family or married a family member or is best friends with the boss, etc.
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I really wish more AC coil cleaning videos were longer, more complete from start to finish and edited way less. It’s my favourite genre of video to enjoy because it is so incredible satisfying. Makes me sad that vloggers and techs cut out so much satisfying footage during editing.
I'll be honest, I'm not a fan of heat pumps but you did a great job cleaning that. May I suggest a pressure washer called a "coil jet", it's designed as a low pressure aircon coil cleaner and with coil cleaner liquid will greatly improve your HP efficiency. You can even get a hose you can use to get inside the top of the fan to push bio matter out the way it came in and the coil jet cleaner has an adjuster for ratio of water and chemical depending what the coil cleaner fluid recommends.
Jimmy, watch for ice on it during freeze/thaw cycles and ice storms. I've seen people go so far as to putting an open sided roof over those units to keep rain, sleet and snow off of it. People in the deep south don't typically have to deal with that, and that's why it is a more popular choice down there.
Got it, thanks!
Keep in mind. Your heatpump is supposed to go into defrost as the outdoor coil sensor starts sensing ice build up. Essentially going into air conditioning mode, where the outdoor coil get super hot and melts the ice, but at that time your electric heaters in the air handle are supposed to bang on so you dont get a blast of cold air in the middle of winter. So maybe the outdoor coil sensor is going bad. Or the defrost board.
Whats the coldest temp the heat pump can work at. Also, say its like 10 F what temp will come out of the vents. Thanks
My system freezes up too in very cold conditions and it’s clean, I think it’s just due to it being cold moist air coming into contact with the cold fins.
Also the recirculating filter in the house needs to be very clean, any restriction there causes a low pressure area to form in our hallway where the filter is, the low pressure then drops the recycling air temperature , which you need to reheat again, thats very inefficient
What temperature was it when you did this video
Thank you it really worked 💯%
After you cleaned it and you show a temp of approximately 100 degrees is that the emergency heat temp or the heat pump heat? I'm in a rental home with a heat pump and I hate it. I've checked the vent air and it blows right at 70 degrees and it's in the mid to upper 30's outside. The owner says that's normal, I think he's just to cheap to fix it. I'll bet the vents in house are blowing warmer than 70 degree's.
Yeah not normal he needs to fix your system.! It's simple maintenance and negligence on his end.!
Thanks!
About how long was the unit not cleaned for before you had to clean it? As soon as it hits below 40 here my heat runs all day barely able to hold 66 and its only a about 2 years old
Have you determined if there was a problem. My unit is four years old. It fell to 9 degrees overnight and I awaken to 56 degrees in the house. 😢 unit is inspected and maintained twice a year.
@Checkthisjunkout Heat pumps transfer heat from the outside to the inside, and the opposite in cooling mode. At 9 degrees, there is just not enough heat in the air for the unit to run efficiently. If it's that cold, it's best to run on the emergency heat strips, or the outside unit will just run hard all night. Your system is probably fine. Most will struggle below 20 degrees.
@@CarolinaCoinHunter Don’t the heat strips come on anyway when the system is not able to maintain the set temperature without them? So if I switch the unit to emergency heat, that wouldn’t do anything more, would it?
@Checkthisjunkout It would keep you from potentially damaging the compressor. If it can't keep up, it will run the crap out of it, and it can get extremely hot.
If the heat strips are on it will indicate auxiliary heat, and they also engage in defrost mode when the flow of refrigerant reverses back to ac mode sending hot liquid refrigerant to defrost the outside coil.
Hello,
I have Amana prestige 2. The heating unit works great except for when the outdoor temperature drops under 40’s. So, if a cool front comes through and the outside air drops down into the 30-40's at night or even during the day, the heating unit will not turn on to heat the inside. The inside blower continues to run.
After a few hours, and a few turn-on-off the heating pump may work or may not. This will happen over and over. I have to shut the unit off. I replaced the condenser with a new one and it is still the same. I also do not have this problem when the outside temperature is 50-60's, the heating unit starts and runs fine.
Can anyone give me any feedback on what may be causing this? Any information you can give me would be greatly appreciated.
That's nowhere near as bad as I've seen on service calls where it is working multiple other times.
Oh yeah... call a "professional". I know alot about many things. Always had a lot of time to learn much from many sources about many things. Always thinking about what I am learning. Always paying good attention to details. And I have watched so called "professionals" do their jobs (not only heat pump, but other things too, like carpentry, electrical, and more). I have seen "professionals" do dumb things that are wrong. Then I see the results of it. Not all "professionals" are actually, really "professional". Some just don't care about their work anymore. Some cheated their way to good marks in their schooling so it looks like they know their stuff and get hired. Some just simply became lazy and take short cuts. There are even people who know little about their work that got hired because they're family or married a family member or is best friends with the boss, etc.
Same problem i just buy a house. I have a alectric heat pump the dont heat at all
What about Duck tape?