Water from window ac?

[fisher15]

My Samsung 18k btu window ac is collecting water inside, on the bottom of the unit. Looking through the side vents, I see a nice pool below the fan, and spitting. I don't think I'm working it too hard, only two lights are on with small vegging plants. Its doing it's job, keeping the room at 82-85 when set at 69. Sealed room, co2, outside temps in the 70s and 80s. Could a hose have come off or broke in there? Anyone have experience with this?


here's a photo from the side vents near the window

 

[gregor_mendel]

All window and portable ACs do this. If it is pooling, it is not tilted as it should be. There should be a hole in the housing for it to drip from.

Find a way to collect it or run it to your reservoir, as it is distilled.

 

[gregor_mendel]

Looking again at the pic, all you need to do is lower the support so that the AC is not parallel to the ground.

 

[killedkilleryo]

i would think a 18000 btu would cool better then that .are your lights air cooled and how many watts .also whats the size of the room and how are u venting out the room.

 

[Wonderon]

Seems the legs might be covering the drain hole, damn stoners....LOL
It will cool better once its draining properly.

 

[fisher15]

Nice, thanks for the help guys.

Killedkilleryo- This is a 12'x8' sealed room, ac and co2. No in/out air. 4x 1000w hps, though only two are currently on. Fixing this stand will be soo much easier than taking apart the ac.

 

[killedkilleryo]

if i were u id aircool the lights .imagine when u fire the other two lights .u could still keep it sealed if u sucked air from outside and then vented it outside just duct 1 run right through all the lights using 2 inline fans 1 on each opposite side and run your lights mainly at night and in the morning.

 

[2buds]

Check the bottom of the unit for a rubber grommet with a plug in it. If you see a grommet pull the plug and insert you some clear tubing flush or slightly bellow the top of the grommet.. The tube comes in many sizes, one will fit tight in the hole. Then you can capture the water. Personally I think the chassis acts a reservoir for the unit using the slight spray of water as an extra cooling tool to help remove the heat from the coil. The presence of that much condensation says its been running a lot.

Peace

 

[fumancu]

That water should be there .look through the instructions it will tell you not to drain it.Do not drill hole or anything to get rid of water.

 

[badugi]

You mentioned CO2. Is that thing sucking out CO2? i.e., do your levels drop noticeably faster when it's running?

 

[yamaha_1fan]

badugi, portables have an issue with loosing CO2. Window units should not have that problem as they should be recycling the air.


My window unit has run for a 18 months w/o ever leaking water. IT would pool up inside.

Now it drips water like a SOB. It has a plug to pull out and even came with a drain plug to snap in and attach a tube. I finally had to hook it up. In 24 hours, it over flowed a 6 gallon container. I have a DH in the room, dont know why all of a sudden its pulling water like that. Maybe the higher heat and recently added CO2?

 

[badugi]

6 gallons? What type of window unit is large enough and designed so that 6 gallons can pool up?

I'm now getting concerned. My 14,500 BTU unit seemingly hasn't leaked water in a couple weeks of use. I should check it out.

 

[maryj315]

Check the bottom of the unit for a rubber grommet with a plug in it. If you see a grommet pull the plug and insert you some clear tubing flush or slightly bellow the top of the grommet.. The tube comes in many sizes, one will fit tight in the hole. Then you can capture the water. Personally I think the chassis acts a reservoir for the unit using the slight spray of water as an extra cooling tool to help remove the heat from the coil. The presence of that much condensation says its been running a lot.

Peace

That is the answer i was going to give at least that is how it was explained to me

Mj

 

[yamaha_1fan]

6 gallons? What type of window unit is large enough and designed so that 6 gallons can pool up?

I'm now getting concerned. My 14,500 BTU unit seemingly hasn't leaked water in a couple weeks of use. I should check it out.

24,000 BTU.

the 6 gallons isnt pooling up in it. The unit never dripped water before until the last couple weeks. Wtaer was all over the floor. Now I inserted a tube and used an empty nutrients jug to catch the water. The jugs are 6 gallons. The last two mornings I cam in, the jugs were full and water was on the floor. I will have to remember to empty it once at night.


I checked the unit, its not in dry mode and is running less now than before. Since I added CO2 I bumped up daytime temps to 85.


Just weird

 

[badugi]

You mean emptying the unit made it more efficient?

Man, I can *hear* water in my unit. Just don't know how to drain it. And no apparent leaking or other draining, maybe I'm due any day now.

 

[yamaha_1fan]

You mean emptying the unit made it more efficient?

Man, I can *hear* water in my unit. Just don't know how to drain it. And no apparent leaking or other draining, maybe I'm due any day now.

no its not more efficent, just different environment now.

Summer was hot plus a bad thermostat kept the thing running 24/7. It was like 60 in there at lights off. Once I fixed that it still had to maintain a room temp of 75 during lights on when it was 90+ degrees outside. Add to the fact the unit exhausts into the garage and there wasnt a good exhaust system, the garage got to 100+

All these factors made the unit work very hard. No dripping.


Now its winter, garage is cool, unit works less. Then since I added CO2, i keep the room at 85 during lights on. So it has to come on even less now


So it runs less, but drips now. I assume there is more humidity in the room now for some reason with the CO2 even though all my gauges tell me RH is low. The DH is still working because it emptys into a 13 gallon garbage can that fills halfway every day.

 

[mexilandrace]

sweet jesus I am glad I got out of the commerical biz, those fucking electric bills were killing me, even if I had a shit ton more money coming in I just couldn't feel right about it.

I was running the biggest window unit they make plus a few 1000 watters, first bill I got nearly made my head explode it was so high.

sorry, I tend to ramble about shit that isn't even on topic, reading the thread people got you going in the right direction

 

[melissa420]

. I assume there is more humidity in the room now for some reason with the CO2

Are you running a co2 generator? When you burn gas, you get co2 and h20 as the byproducts, so co2 generators will increase humidity.

 

[yamaha_1fan]

Are you running a co2 generator? When you burn gas, you get co2 and h20 as the byproducts, so co2 generators will increase humidity.

Yeah I use a genny.

Weird thing is humidity levels were really low when I first put it in. They were so low, I raised the setting on the DH. I need to check the DH and probably lower the setting

 

[badugi]

sweet jesus I am glad I got out of the commerical biz, those fucking electric bills were killing me, even if I had a shit ton more money coming in I just couldn't feel right about it.

I was running the biggest window unit they make plus a few 1000 watters, first bill I got nearly made my head explode it was so high.

sorry, I tend to ramble about shit that isn't even on topic, reading the thread people got you going in the right direction

Did payday also make your head explode?