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AC Handler leaking water. Please help?
June 12, 2015 at
10:41 AM
Hi all,
Slick Dealers are collectively the smartest group of people I know, so I thought someone would be able to help.
I have an Bryant FA4ANF036 AC handler that has me stumped. From what I understand, there should be a drip tray right above the filter. The only drip tray I have is *vertical*, running up and down the left side, seemingly useless. So water is dripping directly onto the filter, off of the washboard- looking thing (sorry - don't know what it's called). I've attached a photo that will be more helpful than my explanation -- you can see the vertical black drip tray on the left and the water that has dripped onto the filter.
Is my drip tray truly misplaced, or should water not be leaking from where I described? How can I fix either issue? I cleaned out the condensate line and replaced the condensate pump; (basement unit), so that's not the issue. Thank you and +4 for any helpful advice.
Slick Dealers are collectively the smartest group of people I know, so I thought someone would be able to help.
I have an Bryant FA4ANF036 AC handler that has me stumped. From what I understand, there should be a drip tray right above the filter. The only drip tray I have is *vertical*, running up and down the left side, seemingly useless. So water is dripping directly onto the filter, off of the washboard- looking thing (sorry - don't know what it's called). I've attached a photo that will be more helpful than my explanation -- you can see the vertical black drip tray on the left and the water that has dripped onto the filter.
Is my drip tray truly misplaced, or should water not be leaking from where I described? How can I fix either issue? I cleaned out the condensate line and replaced the condensate pump; (basement unit), so that's not the issue. Thank you and +4 for any helpful advice.
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Slick Dealers are collectively the smartest group of people I know, so I though someone would be able to help.
http://www.atexac.com/public/file...FA4BNF.p
Looks like in your poor quality photo that the 2 pipe-looking connections on the lower LHS are for drain connections per pg 16 in the pdf
http://www.atexac.com/public/file...FA4BNF.p
Looks like in your poor quality photo that the 2 pipe-looking connections on the lower LHS are for drain connections per pg 16 in the pdf
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Which way does the air flow - upwards?
From the PDF there are various ways to install this - upflow, downflow, sideflow, etc. Looking at pg 5 the default/factory setup is side flow - imagine your image rotated CCW. In this orientation (horiz) the drip pan is in the correct place.
I can't see any way in the current configuration that one could drain off the water while still allowing air to flow through the xchanger, meaning one cannot simply take a horizontal unit and make it a vertical flow. Even the drain piping is odd - it goes UPWARD from the drain? I am amazed that at this age the unit hasn't caused all sorts of problems or rotted out.