- Air conditioning drips water? (source: lgknowledgebase.com)
Air contains a certain amount of water or usually familiar known as moisture, with the amount that can keep in a vapor position being directly proportional to temperature & pressure. And as well we know that air conditioners have primer function to cool and change (decrease) the temperature of air of a room, so thus they can hold a certain water vapor from air which is the key why they can drip the water, particularly if the unit doesn’t get proper maintenance, used for wrong room size, etc. The evaporator coil will condense the water vapor from air and this process can run continuously and increasingly heavy during cold ambient temperature (under the dew point ‘phase thermodynamic curve’). If your air conditioner drips water, there are several procedures to solve this problem, from simple or basic procedures to other steps that require high technical skills.
There is always probability that all air conditioners will cause a liquid dripping problem, unless if the unit is operating in an extremely dry area, like desert. Air Conditioning units are one of the most important home appliances to through summer comfortably and successfully without having worry to unfriendly situation due to hot temperature of the air inside of your home. These units can run 24 hours a day – seven days a week during summer, therefore it is so important to check and inspect your units 2 weeks or a month before summer in order to make sure they can be operated properly during summer. Back to the topic, according to LGknowledgebase.com; the following are a few solutions to stop your air conditioner from dripping water inside of your room, particularly for LG window air conditioners:
1. First, like mentioned before, make sure you use your unit for the right large room!
2. Then ensure that your unit is already installed properly, especially if your unit is moveable unit (like window or portable air conditioning units). For window AC unit, it should have the front slightly higher than the rear; otherwise water can drip into the room. For proper draining, the distance between the rear and the front is around 1.25 inches. This is important to allow and make the water rolling out the back of the unit.
3. Check the drain hole of the unit. It may clog so thus will make water cannot flow that eventually will make your unit drips water into your room.
4. A buildup of water that can lead to dripping-water problem of an air conditioner can be caused by the condensation. Avoid a warm air flow from settling around the front of the unit otherwise this situation can lead to the condensation phase.
5. The problem is still not solved… then perhaps icing-problem is the reason of dripping-problem of your unit. The melting ice may drain into the room if the cooling coils are icing up. So check the coils of evaporator and make sure there is no ice buildup! If there is ice forming, once again check the large size of the room and ensure you use the right size unit.
6. Contact a professional technician for the further information if above basic procedures still cannot solve the problem.
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