Happy Last Monday Of June Everyone!

[Torn Rose]

GG, Thanks, I been saving it up for something special.

Useless, check your filter and you may also be low on coolant; the ice is caused by being overworked. I just had this happen to me a few months ago.

[Useless]

Originally Posted by Torn

Useless, check your filter and you may also be low on coolant; the ice is caused by being overworked. I just had this happen to me a few months ago.

Yes, it happened the first time yesterday morning. At least that's the first time we noticed it. I melted the ice with a hair dryer and then combed out the radiator fins with a hair brush to increase the air flow and vacuumed the filter. That was yesterday. Today, I turned it from high cool to high fan and it looks like it has already melted and is set to go. Poor thing has been running continuosly for the last 72 hours.

[Cleo]

Originally Posted by Torn

the ice is caused by being overworked.

Yeah the little Freon workers start sweating ice cubes when they are made to work too hard.

Actually the evaporator pressure should be between 69 PSI and 78 PSI which corresponds to a temp of 40°F to 46°F. If the low side pressure in the evaporator falls into the 5* PSI range then the evaporator temp will fall below the freezing point of water and the evaporator will freeze. This can be caused both either not getting enough air across the evaporator due to a clogged filter or coil or a refrigerant leak that has allowed the pressure of the refrigerant boiling point to fall below the freezing point of water. In both cases this could allow still liquid refrigerant to return to the compressor and damage it due to the fact that liquid can not be compressed so it breaks mechanical parts inside of the compressor itself.

Not that I know shit about how a A/C works.