Duck Pond Redneckery

[GAnthony]

In order to reach the fan and splash out, the water has to accumulate quite a bit. It didn't start spitting water until it built up a nice puddle in there..

So it's not all going to evaporate. Not when it's inside a sheltered area and deprived of sunlight.

So mold is a concern as well, not just adding extra humidity to a storage area.

There's a little bit of mold on the shop floor right by the drain for my air compressor.

Well there was, until last week when I sprayed a little bleach on it.

well my a/c's splash the water around, i know, i can hear it as i try to fall asleep. do as you wish (we all know you will) but it was designed and built that way for a reason. i think in the end, by drilling a drain hole 2 things will happen, 1 rust will form inside the a/c, and 2, you may actually shorten the life of that a/c, since you a re taking away it's self cooling capabilities.

oh well.

 

[Rigjockey]

In order to reach the fan and splash out, the water has to accumulate quite a bit. It didn't start spitting water until it built up a nice puddle in there..

So it's not all going to evaporate. Not when it's inside a sheltered area and deprived of sunlight.

So mold is a concern as well, not just adding extra humidity to a storage area.

There's a little bit of mold on the shop floor right by the drain for my air compressor.

Well there was, until last week when I sprayed a little bleach on it.

It needs to be mounted so the outside part is tilted. I go through this every year. being as you got it mounted so nicely there, I would do what you did and drill a hole in the bottom.

 

[GAnthony]

It needs to be mounted so the outside part is tilted. I go through this every year. being as you got it mounted so nicely there, I would do what you did and drill a hole in the bottom.

go take another rorschach test!

 

[Duck]

well my a/c's splash the water around, i know, i can hear it as i try to fall asleep. do as you wish (we all know you will) but it was designed and built that way for a reason. i think in the end, by drilling a drain hole 2 things will happen, 1 rust will form inside the a/c, and 2, you may actually shorten the life of that a/c, since you are taking away it's self cooling capabilities.

oh well.

Yeah because the older units they've been making for like 70 years with freakin' drain holes all rusted out and burned up after a week.

BTW I kinda cross-threaded a bolt into the hole to let it fill up today.

Condenser temp was 115°F dry, and when it started spitting water, it didn't drop enough to rule out the randomness factor of the temp gun. Reflective or shiny surfaces are hard to get a reading on, so you gotta move the laser dot around and average it on your head.

I left it spitting water at the condenser for an hour and it's still at 114°F so I pulled that bolt out and it was a steady piss stream for about a minute... Waited 20 minutes and the condenser is 115°F.

So spitting water on the condenser only makes a slight difference... Just another idiotic idea by the greenies

It needs to be mounted so the outside part is tilted. I go through this every year. being as you got it mounted so nicely there, I would do what you did and drill a hole in the bottom.

It's tilted slightly.

The accordion flaps, bottom and top lips are designed so when they're flush on a vertical surface, the unit is tilted back. But even so, if I hadta tilt it more, I installed it with that in mind.

In the picture you can see a piece of flat steel in the middle at the bottom. That holds the bottom in place. To tilt it more all I gotta do is put washers between the steel and the wood to let it slip forward a little.

 

[Rigjockey]

It's tilted slightly.

Apparently, Not enough.
So drill, and then drill some more. I had the same problem and my first thought was, I am drilling ten holes in the bottom of this motherfucker

 

[Injun]

Good gawd. Freakin' air conditioner is not supposed to spit water into the room, ffs.

Here's what the pros say:

An air conditioner that is spitting water is due to a malfunction in the condensation drain, which may be due to a few separate causes.

If a window air conditioner is installed improperly, its condensate pan may overflow and get water on the circulation fan, which can cause water to spit. Window units are constructed in such a way that, when properly seated on the windowsill, they have a slight slope away from the house, which enables water to drain outside the house instead of overflowing and draining indoors. Verify that the unit is properly seated in the window and is sloping away from your home.

Why Is My Air Conditioner Spitting Water? | Hunker


You people can argue about anything.

 

[Rigjockey]

You people can argue about anything.

I think you are wrong! We can argue about everything

 

[Duck]

Apparently, Not enough.
So drill, and then drill some more. I had the same problem and my first thought was, I am drilling ten holes in the bottom of this mother****er

It's visibly tilted. I don't need a level to see it.

The bottom is actually stamped in a way that makes a shallow area to pool that water around the bottom of the fan. The drains are located where that shallow pool has to overflow before it reaches them.

 

[ironpony]

You people can argue about anything.

It's sumthin' we're good at!

 

[Duck]

The drains are those coin shaped things. Notice how one of them is right over the end grain in the wall plywood.

The wall there is 3/8" plywood and a 2x4, flat. So less than 2" thick. So in a regular house window, that drain would be right in the middle of the sill.

But in this pic you can see how it's actually designed to hold water.

The old man was getting sprayed in the face by water droplets standing there.

 

[Injun]

So in a regular house window, that drain would be right in the middle of the sill.

Nawp. The part of the sill it sits on is the window trach, which is usually close to the outside of the wall. Except in 800 year old houses like yours.

 

[Duck]

Nawp. The part of the sill it sits on is the window trach, which is usually close to the outside of the wall. Except in 800 year old houses like yours.

Wrong.
The upper part of the window has to hold that lip on the top or it'll fall out. And the upper pane is the inner one.

This window is only about 15 years old.

 

[Injun]

Wrong.
The upper part of the window has to hold that lip on the top or it'll fall out. And the upper pane is the inner one.

This window is only about 15 years old.

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Go look where the drain is on that unit in relation to the wall.

 

[Duck]

Go look where the drain is on that unit in relation to the wall.

That would require a ladder or binoculars and I'm too lazy.

 

[Tazz]

When our central ac went out last year we had July waiting for the new system to be installed. We bought three window units and the first thing I did was pull these rubber plugs off the outside edge so water could drain. Wife says "No those stay in"

WTF do you mean?

"The installation instructions say to leave those in"

Give me those damn things. Yep sure enough.

F'That it is gonna hold water, short out the motor, they have to drain.

First two nights the damn thing barely kept our bedroom at 76 deg. Told her I was taking the POS back and get a bigger one.

"Put the plug in"

I got your plug in right here. The damn thing is not working.

"Your going to work, just put it in. I like it warmer anyways"

Dig through the boxes to find stupid little butt plug. Put it in. Kept bedroom at 70 until the new system was up and running

Twice now in my life I have been wrong, and she will not let it go.


Leave the plugs in. And do not drill holes.


Or do it I don't care. But these new things use that to help cool.

 

[Duck]

When our central ac went out last year we had July waiting for the new system to be installed. We bought three window units and the first thing I did was pull these rubber plugs off the outside edge so water could drain. Wife says "No those stay in"

WTF do you mean?

"The installation instructions say to leave those in"

Give me those damn things. Yep sure enough.

F'That it is gonna hold water, short out the motor, they have to drain.

First two nights the damn thing barely kept our bedroom at 76 deg. Told her I was taking the POS back and get a bigger one.

"Put the plug in"

I got your plug in right here. The damn thing is not working.

"Your going to work, just put it in. I like it warmer anyways"

Dig through the boxes to find stupid little butt plug. Put it in. Kept bedroom at 70 until the new system was up and running

Twice now in my life I have been wrong, and she will not let it go.


Leave the plugs in. And do not drill holes.


Or do it I don't care. But these new things use that to help cool.

Well that unit took a shit. Started shaking then the plastic fan flew apart.

Took it back and exchanged it, same unit.

Didn't drill drain holes yet.

Condenser temp was 119 before the pool of water built up. Once it started splashing water it dropped and has been holding about 95° but it hasn't been dripping out the drains at all. So it either splashes out or evaporates the water faster than it collects.

What I'll probably do is take the cabinet off so I can install a little valve in it so I can have it draining when I've got the big rollup door closed, and close the valve so it can steam off the water when the door is open.

I don't want to turn that storage area into a steam room.

 

[Keendriver]

At this point wouldn't it be easier to just point some fans at the party barge?

 

[Duck]

At this point wouldn't it be easier to just point some fans at the party barge?

There already were fans on it. It's the humidity.

 

[Keendriver]

There already were fans on it. It's the humidity.

So then........no?

I feel like the answer here is no.

 

[ironpony]

Twice now in my life I have been wrong, and she will not let it go.

You obviously skipped the chapters in The Book on "Wifely Memory" and "Reiteration of Tinyest Slight Ad Nauseum."