Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr.Big
No, the old spiny fin coil on my 19 year old Trane unit is still shiny and bright. Trane got that all aluminum coil from General Electric when they purchased the GE air conditioning division in the 70’s. Those old GE Weathertron units with the Climatuff compressors were almost impossible to kill!!! Trane had very little residential equipment until they bought the GE air conditioning division.
|
I saw a Youtube video on that Trane system. Someone has one that's 50 years old. Still works although it has a refrigerant leak so they need to keep charging it up. He never does maintenanced on it. Only fixes it when it needs it. It also has a "fur coat" but he says that's what's keeping it running but the outdoor condenser unit sounds like it's sufficating.
That's the funny part about maintenance. "People" say, "It's running just fine". But how do they know because it's coolng? But at what cost? They could be paying double in energy costs because it's old and or unmaintained and very inefficient.