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Racking frackin racket.
15 years ago
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Alright, today I had enough of the blasted noise from our air conditioner. It's one of them cheap arse Haier window mount units my mate and I bought last year.
Every since day one the thing would build up water in the inside of the cabinet and splash water around inside of itself to... according to the manual... help cool the compressor. WTF over... no other AC units do this!
The damb thing sounded like it had tiny pebbles rattling around in it all the time. Note I used the past tense.
Sick and tired of it I did a quick Google search and found out other folks had not only the same problem with the unit, but you could indeed modify the darn thing so it wouldn't make the noise. Other solutions included drilling holes in the bottom of the case to let the water drain.
I did it faster, and easier. I dug out my dremel and with the cut off tool cut a quarter inch notch in the case to let the water drain out. Bang, problem solved. By doing it this way I didn't have to disassemble the unit to make sure I didn't bore into anything critical, nor did I even have to take the darn thing out of the window. (In fact I didn't even shut the thing off.)
I stuck a picture over in the scraps gallery for folks to look at in case anyone has one of these noisemakers and wants to preform a little surgery on their own units.
PG };8>
Every since day one the thing would build up water in the inside of the cabinet and splash water around inside of itself to... according to the manual... help cool the compressor. WTF over... no other AC units do this!
The damb thing sounded like it had tiny pebbles rattling around in it all the time. Note I used the past tense.
Sick and tired of it I did a quick Google search and found out other folks had not only the same problem with the unit, but you could indeed modify the darn thing so it wouldn't make the noise. Other solutions included drilling holes in the bottom of the case to let the water drain.
I did it faster, and easier. I dug out my dremel and with the cut off tool cut a quarter inch notch in the case to let the water drain out. Bang, problem solved. By doing it this way I didn't have to disassemble the unit to make sure I didn't bore into anything critical, nor did I even have to take the darn thing out of the window. (In fact I didn't even shut the thing off.)
I stuck a picture over in the scraps gallery for folks to look at in case anyone has one of these noisemakers and wants to preform a little surgery on their own units.
PG };8>
It's a nice though, but bad design. From everything I've read on the subject it's standard operating procedure for Haier, but folks that mod the cabinets haven't reported any unit failures so I went ahead and did it to mine.
BTW.. nice to see you around again =p
PG }:8>