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Welcome from Mississippi! Nice to meet you!
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Welcome from Colorado!
I worked on heating and air conditioning in the Denver area, like to have frozen the side of my face off working on a unit on the top of a church building, that was about the time we figured we needed to get out of the Denver area, spent about a year in White Deer,Texas, ran a Conoco gas station at the west edge of Pampa and then a tire shop in Pampa until we sold our home, Came to Oregon and worked for around 20 years doing custodial/maintenance for the local school district, now very happy to be retired but still doing things. Solar power, spring development and gardening, I'm beginning to think that I really need to retire and spend some time out gold detecting. Heating and air conditioning has gotten crazy with the elimination of most of the refrigerants I used to work with.
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True on the refrigerants, 410 a and now next year they are going to start with the 407c.
now we have r22+ r410a +r407c Freon plus recovery jugs and gauges for all the above, just once in my life time I would like for the government to make my job easier. Not going to happen I know.
Bienveneetoes from Lost Angeleez.. 
Nice 'niner' ya got there, Lookin forward to perusin yer Adventures..
jd
Nice 'niner' ya got there, Lookin forward to perusin yer Adventures..
jd
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Welcome from Indiana!
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Hello Hashbrown, looking forward to chatting with ya.
love your user name.
Welcome from the homesteading and prepping desert known as North Carolina.
So does the doctor behind mean you are practicing, until you become a journy man AC mechanic , Sorry just find it funny that doctors practice medicine and I just fix $hit once, Welcome aboard,
No I have 29 years in the industry, I own my own American Standard heating and air dealership.
i have been in business for myself since 1997.
the Acdoctor is a pun on let the doc fix your heat / ac problems.
i have been in business for myself since 1997.
the Acdoctor is a pun on let the doc fix your heat / ac problems.
Welcome!
We got our whole system changed out in 2019 to an American Standard system (silver series).
Good stuff, runs flawless, much comfort, and it blew a big hole in the power company's profits.
Best money we ever spent. Peace of mind is priceless!
Yes it is very good equipment, when sized and installed correctly they are almost bullet proof.Welcome!
We got our whole system changed out in 2019 to an American Standard system (silver series).
Good stuff, runs flawless, much comfort, and it blew a big hole in the power company's profits.
Best money we ever spent. Peace of mind is priceless!
I sold different brands in the past but non as dependable as them plus the don’t give me grief about warranty parts like some manufacturers do.
The 22 y/o one was a 3-ton and it would run non-stop (when it wasn't broke down
)I had them replace it with a 3.5-ton. Made all the difference! When it runs, it don't take long to do it's thing.
And then there is that much higher SEER rating!
.People don't realize how much money they throw away on old systems because new ones are "expensive".
If you run the numbers, you will spend the same amount of money either way over the next 10 years...
The question then becomes, will you have a 10-y/o, or a 25-y/o, system by then?
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Very glad you took my silly poke in good spirits, Heat removal or addition is a science, that actually uses actual science.
Welcome from wherever I am to wherever you are.
Finally someone who under stands seer = money in your pocket from then on.The 22 y/o one was a 3-ton and it would run non-stop (when it wasn't broke down
I had them replace it with a 3.5-ton. Made all the difference! When it runs, it don't take long to do it's thing.
And then there is that much higher SEER rating!
People don't realize how much money they throw away on old systems because new ones are "expensive".
If you run the numbers, you will spend the same amount of money either way over the next 10 years...
The question then becomes, will you have a 10-y/o, or a 25-y/o, system by then?
old systems will eat your lunch for you.
That's the issue I frequently saw, undersized systems, people would run them until the compressor motors would burn out and when that happened you had to be very careful opening up the refrigerant systems because with R-12 or R-22 you could easily have hydrofluoric acid in the system, very dangerous to health. I saw a number of outdoor units that were mounted in bad areas were they were re-using the heat they were exhausting and wondering why the unit went bad. Then there was the one time I watched a guy melting the ice block off the outdoor coils of his heat pump unit with a propane torch because his unit didn't properly go into reverse flow to melt the ice off, of course that unit was generally mounted in the shadiest, coldest area outside their home. I was always told that wasn't a problem because heat pump always the ambient heat in the air, I always felt that he units would do better in an area where the sun was on it in the winter months. Then there was the complaints of high electric bills from townhouse owners, come to find out, the power company sold them on putting in "Power Factor" meters, meters that had a needle that would indicate how much amperage was used at any given time, that's where their problems came from, if was below 30 degrees outside, the heat pump system would run electric heat coils in the indoor system, if you added cooking in the oven and doing laundry at the same time the power factor meter would push the needle past #2 and whatever the number was is what the small watt hour reading would be multiplied by, power company didn't tell the owners that the only way they would save money is if they had totally computer controlled systems in the home that would shed less important loads and keep that meter needle below #2, at that time period we were in a technology transition that very few people had any understanding of, that's one of the reasons I got out of HVAC. Our heating and air conditioning consists of opening the windows, turning on a few fans and dumping hot air at night during the summer months, in the winter, heating is by wood, also doesn't hurt to have a well insulted home. Here's another issue that was toublesum, most of the heat pumps my boss used were just about always Honeywell, good brand name, not always the best quality, refrigerant lines had problems if they weren't properly installed. I will say that Honeywell made good thermostats.
I confess, I'm a number-cruncher, you can always find me chomping on them
.Years ago, our only choices were between 'sux', and 'sux really bad'. Things have changed a lot, since then.
BTW, disclaimer: Super owns stock in an electric company because they send him a fat check every 3 months, like clockwork.
Please keep your old system as long as you can, because we love you very much!
As for me, I ain't gonna toss bunches of my money over to some greedy bastid... like me
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Welcome from Georgia! Pull up a bucket next to the fire and have a cold one!
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