Sparky-WishItWas
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Re: NEED MacGyver diverter/drip catcher for spitting window AC
Please do not tell me to tilt or clean... read the post
Haire Window A/C blows condensate into the room. The drops come spitting in, airborne. I have had it apart many times. Meticulously (lights and micro mirrors) checking drainage. I've drilled bigger drainage. Nothing works.
Condensate gets sucked off the first coil and into the blower chamber. From there it should gravity-drain down the styrofoam sides and out the drainage hole. But gravity's force on the droplets is less than the force of the wind blowing upwards along the foam. This drives the droplets UP instead of DOWN. Eventually they get blasted out of the unit and go flying helter skelter into the room, making a rain shower in my office.
I'm a handy guy. Testing, I've installed it with everything from a tilt IN towards the house (with the rear elevated 1/2" above level, against the instructions) and tested again and again, dropping the rear by 1/4" increment (to 1" below level). It makes no difference, the drops do not gravity drain and get blown into the room. And as I said, I've had it apart many times and I once had the crevices clean enough for surgery.
I'm down to three ideas. Slow the blower fan, somehow treat the styrofoam to reduce surface tension and friction, or (my current favorite) make an accessory to just catch the spit.
The basic idea is to add some sort of diverter. The unit could blow its cold air into the diverter, and the diverter could reroute the cold air a short way before letting it into the room. If the diverter were configured the right way, presumably the drops would fall out of the air stream, run down the inside to some sort of collection area, and from there I could gravity drain the spitted water through the (already beat up) floor into the basement and from there to the water heater drain pain line.
Has anyone ever solved this problem, after "clean" and "tilt" didn't work? Any ideas? Thanks for any help!
Please do not tell me to tilt or clean... read the post
Haire Window A/C blows condensate into the room. The drops come spitting in, airborne. I have had it apart many times. Meticulously (lights and micro mirrors) checking drainage. I've drilled bigger drainage. Nothing works.
Condensate gets sucked off the first coil and into the blower chamber. From there it should gravity-drain down the styrofoam sides and out the drainage hole. But gravity's force on the droplets is less than the force of the wind blowing upwards along the foam. This drives the droplets UP instead of DOWN. Eventually they get blasted out of the unit and go flying helter skelter into the room, making a rain shower in my office.
I'm a handy guy. Testing, I've installed it with everything from a tilt IN towards the house (with the rear elevated 1/2" above level, against the instructions) and tested again and again, dropping the rear by 1/4" increment (to 1" below level). It makes no difference, the drops do not gravity drain and get blown into the room. And as I said, I've had it apart many times and I once had the crevices clean enough for surgery.
I'm down to three ideas. Slow the blower fan, somehow treat the styrofoam to reduce surface tension and friction, or (my current favorite) make an accessory to just catch the spit.
The basic idea is to add some sort of diverter. The unit could blow its cold air into the diverter, and the diverter could reroute the cold air a short way before letting it into the room. If the diverter were configured the right way, presumably the drops would fall out of the air stream, run down the inside to some sort of collection area, and from there I could gravity drain the spitted water through the (already beat up) floor into the basement and from there to the water heater drain pain line.
Has anyone ever solved this problem, after "clean" and "tilt" didn't work? Any ideas? Thanks for any help!
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