I've been looking at a post that was done earlier. People telling this guy it's to high and I got mine for this.
To the op of that post. Yes a 10 year old air handler that is tripping a does not need replacing. Most generally that is a bad connection on element, connecting parts or breaker. You need to find someone else.
Now on prices. His price was good of everything was being replaced.
Some of you on here that are bragging about how cheep you got it. Well it was cheep for a reason. You will found out in about 2 years when your replacing the compressor.
I'm not meaning to make to many people on here mad. But here is some facts. And it's all on the Internet also. Do some research.
Let's start with air flow. All units require a certain amount to be able to do its job. So let's look at a 3 ton. That means depending on seer rating that unit requires 1050 to 1200 cfm to work correctly. This unit requirs .8 static max for the blower on the average unit to perform at these levels of cfm required.
So for you that have the unit in a closet. Look at your return air grill. The max velocity you want is 500. 300 is better. The higher it is the noisier it is.
That means for a standard grill for an 1200 cfm unit at the grill needs to be 30x36 at 300 and 20x24 at 600. The last will well be loud and restrictive.
Now look at filters a filter should be sized at 300 fpm. Any more then that it will pull dirt through it. Most Pleated filter manufactures on 1 in only list what there good for at 300. They now there junk but they sell them anyway.
It will take a 24x24 minimum 1 inch pleated filter to move 1200 cfm of air at 300 fpm. And that is at an average of .23 static. Oops back on static.
So that means depending on the static of your coil let's say average of .3 a pleated filter at .23 your at .53. And max is .8. That's not good so now for that cheep guy that just through in your new unit, did not size your retirn grill correctly sold you on pleated filters. And we haven't even got into the supply side just screwd your eyeballs out. Yep. Cheep is always the way to go
If your Ac guy cannot tell you about static and what it does to your system you are using the wrong guy. But knowledge is not cheep
I saw this once. Static of an Ac system is like blood pressure. When the static is good all is good when static is to high. Well your system has an heart attic and dies
To the op of that post. Yes a 10 year old air handler that is tripping a does not need replacing. Most generally that is a bad connection on element, connecting parts or breaker. You need to find someone else.
Now on prices. His price was good of everything was being replaced.
Some of you on here that are bragging about how cheep you got it. Well it was cheep for a reason. You will found out in about 2 years when your replacing the compressor.
I'm not meaning to make to many people on here mad. But here is some facts. And it's all on the Internet also. Do some research.
Let's start with air flow. All units require a certain amount to be able to do its job. So let's look at a 3 ton. That means depending on seer rating that unit requires 1050 to 1200 cfm to work correctly. This unit requirs .8 static max for the blower on the average unit to perform at these levels of cfm required.
So for you that have the unit in a closet. Look at your return air grill. The max velocity you want is 500. 300 is better. The higher it is the noisier it is.
That means for a standard grill for an 1200 cfm unit at the grill needs to be 30x36 at 300 and 20x24 at 600. The last will well be loud and restrictive.
Now look at filters a filter should be sized at 300 fpm. Any more then that it will pull dirt through it. Most Pleated filter manufactures on 1 in only list what there good for at 300. They now there junk but they sell them anyway.
It will take a 24x24 minimum 1 inch pleated filter to move 1200 cfm of air at 300 fpm. And that is at an average of .23 static. Oops back on static.
So that means depending on the static of your coil let's say average of .3 a pleated filter at .23 your at .53. And max is .8. That's not good so now for that cheep guy that just through in your new unit, did not size your retirn grill correctly sold you on pleated filters. And we haven't even got into the supply side just screwd your eyeballs out. Yep. Cheep is always the way to go
If your Ac guy cannot tell you about static and what it does to your system you are using the wrong guy. But knowledge is not cheep
I saw this once. Static of an Ac system is like blood pressure. When the static is good all is good when static is to high. Well your system has an heart attic and dies
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