kelvinator room air conditioner

Just moved into our new home and it has a kelvinator refrigerator room air conditioner.

On the hot days we have had in Melbourne (very few) I have used it. It is situated on the wall of the garage next to the house with direct access to the lounge room. However I noticed that a lot of water is dripping from the base at the rear of the unit. The instruction card we have suggests ( I quote)remove the plastic plug in the base of the unit remove any material which blocks the drain hole (unquote) I removed the plastic plate at the rear but it appeared to be clean, you cannot see much as it ia a small hole at the base. Is this normal due to evaporation, on the days it was on it was very hot.

Thank you

Jean Bloom

I think you will find it is extracting humidity from the air

David

One feature of domestic aircons is that by default they de-humidify the air, it's part of the process. You would be amazed at the flow out of my 3hp Daikin. :eek:

thank you both for your replies




jean Bloom

its the way they are meant to work
start to worry when they dont drip any water at all

cheers Ian the aircon man :)

Drip? The one at my last place tried to outdo the Murray. Mind you, that's probably not a great feat these days

Richard
did I mention my greenie tendancies?

Thanks once again to you both

One lasr thing, I guess there is no problems with connecting a tube
to the knozzle because the water runs onto a work bench, and the first day we turned it on all the water dripped all over my husbands tools (quite a lot)


Thank You

Jean Bloom

Macklin, if you connect a tube make sure you check it regularly, it's a favourite place for wasps to build a nest and block it up.

thanks termite

it is only about 1/2 inch in diameter anyway


Thanks

Jean Bloom