The condenser is the most underrated component in an air conditioning or refrigeration system. Besides being a simple heat exchanger, the condenser has to desuperheat, condense, and subcool ...

Maintaining your AC unit is crucial to surviving the scorching summer. And with peak sun in July, it's the best time to take ...

There are two types of coils in an AC/refrigeration system–the evaporator and the condenser. They consist of copper or aluminum tubes with aluminum fins or microchannel tubes with fin strips. If these ...

Maintaining clean condenser tubes is of vital importance for reliable, efficient power generation. Two major problems result from fouled tubes: (1) Loss of heat transfer, and (2) Under-deposit ...

I asked my neighbor who hoses off his air conditioner condenser every spring why he does it. "Because my dad always told me I had to," he said. Conventional wisdom like what my neighbor's dad imparted ...

One to two times a year, call up your local HVAC professional to take a look at your all-too-important AC coils. Cleaning AC coils costs anywhere from $75 to $700, or an average of $125 per coil. Dirt ...