AboutJim Barnhart Expertise Fifty plus years working with Heating, Air Conditioning, Ventilation, Sheet Metal,Hot Water Heating.
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Expert: Jim Barnhart Date: 7/2/2008 Subject: condensate drain pan
Question Hi,
The A/C coil unit that sits atop my air-handler in my basement is leaking water. I pulled off the hose that runs the condensate into a floor drain, and saw that the plastic piece that connects the hose to the drain pan has some cracks in it. Can I replace the entire drain pan (this piece is connected to the entire pan)?
There is no brand name on the coil unit but it does have a tag listing the following:
Model No. EAA3036QA1 867.811630
MFR. No. NEAA3036QA1
Serial No. L882062740
Style No. EAA30A
R-22 oz. 1
Test pressure 150
The home was built in 1973 and this might be the original unit. The actual air-conditioner that sits outside is a Janitrol.
My family is really broke right now so I'm trying to avoid paying a contractor to come out and do the job. I'd like to know whether this is a part that I can buy from somewhere, either online or locally, and just slide the new pan underneath the coil. Or is it more difficult than that?
Thanks for any help you can provide.
Answer Jeff,
I don't know what your coil is?
Your calling the unit an air handler as opposed to a heat pump or a furnace etc.
No body has a library in there home that has literature on a 1978 cooling coil with all those numbers.
I don't remember any plastic drip pans in 1978?
The drip pan connection should be a 3/4" metal threaded female pipe connection?
Someone screwed a plastic nipple in. Unscrew the plastic and screw in a new one.
