AboutJim Barnhart Expertise Fifty + years in Heating, Ventilating, Air Conditioning, Sheet Metal Manufacturing.
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Question QUESTION: Unable to locate the model # but the unit is about 10 years old, some 4 feet in length, 2 1/2 feet wide and 1 1/2 or so feed deep. Its a attic unit and difficult to get around it but the main A/C and Heat run out of each end of it. Has a grate and flat panel on what appears to be the front of it. Now to the question, where are the water pans located and how do you go about getting to them to clean them out or replace them if needed. I know they should be under it as thats where the drain lines come from but wasn't sure about trying to pull the front panels off or how difficult it would be to get to them and get them out, any assistance will be appreciated. Thanks, Hayden, Brandon, MS
ANSWER: Hayden,
The cooling coil has a drip pan directly under the coil itself, it may be built onto the coil and is not removable, it may not be readily accessible either?
It all depends on what type of unit you have and how the cooling coil is mounted?
There should be an auxiliary drip pan that is outside of the unit that serves as an overflow safety drip pan which should not have water in it unless there is a problem with the main drip pan or drain line.
The drain lines connects to the drip pan's
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QUESTION: Do these front panels normally just snap off or do they have screws, I actually do not see any screws in either the panel with the grate or the solid panel? Many thanks for your quick response on this. Gonna wait for it to cool down a little before I go back up in the attic to look at things, its in the 90's here already. Thanks, Hayden
Answer Hayden,
I have absolutely no knowledge of what your dealing with?
Tempstar is a brand name that used to be Whirlpool, it covers maybe a hundred or so different units used for heating and cooling and that's just for the year, multiply that by a ten year old unit and I can spend hours and hours trying to figure out what you have, if I even knew what type of unit it was such as gas, electric, heat pump I don't have a reference book that tell's how all those thousands of units were put together, If you have a gas furnace the cooling portion is an optional add on and can be installed in several different ways, if it's a heat pump it probably is an all together cooling air handler type unit.
Some casings are screwed, nut and bolted, spot welded, or other mean's
of construction.
I have no Idea what your calling a "front panel" or a "grate".
