Latest / Shafer Heating and Cooling Service Repair Podcast / ❄️ How Your Air Conditioner Really Keeps You Comfortable! 💧🏡
Transcript
- 0:00The fan that's blowing outside should be blowing hot air. So one of the jobs
- 0:05of an air conditioner is to remove humidity.
- 0:09So not only does it control temperature, but it also does remove humidity when it's running.
- 0:13When it's not running, though, we're not removing humidity. In the summertime,
- 0:16I'm sorry, you'll see a solid stream of water or water dripping out of that.
- 0:20That's that condensation, yeah.
- 0:21You put your hand over top of the AC outside in the summertime,
- 0:24there's hot air coming out of the top. That's the heat being pulled out of the house.
- 0:27You see the water running out of the drain. That's the humidity being pulled out of the home.
- 0:31And so the more humid it is, the more condensation you're going to see,
- 0:33the less humid it is, the less condensation you're going to see.
- 0:36Assuming that the system is dialed in and, you know, working correctly.
- 0:39The fan that's blowing outside should be blowing hot air.
- 0:44So if it's blowing cool air, ambient air, you know your system isn't pulling the heat out of the air.