[Shop-talk] Cooling down an air conditioner

[John T. Blair]

At 07:07 PM 8/8/2016, Robert nogueira wrote:

 >I've got a window mounted A/C in my garage. It generally does a pretty good
 >job of cooling it down but now that the daily high is over 100 (f) 
it is having a
 >problem and is tripping the breaker after running a hour or so in 
mid afternoon (
 >unit gets full sun).
 >
 >Question: would installing a fine water mist sprayer behind the 
evaporator coil
 >easy the load on the compressor thus allowing it to continue to cool?

Bob,

Yes, a water spray would help but pulling some of the added sun heat 
load off by
allowing the water to evaporate.  So anything from one of the garden hoses with
holes in it, to a spray nozzle on a stick would help.

Let us know how it works out.

John


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