Air Conditioner Filters

Air Conditioner Filters

When people think about an air conditioner filter, efficency and how much dust they will stop are vital points. When replacing or upgrading your air conditioner filter you must take these thoughts into consideration.

There is also a very worthwhile thing that your air conditioner filter does. It is to help keep dust from appearing on the evaporator coil of your air conditioning system. The evaporator is found inside the air handler and is one of the principal components of any air conditioning system.

Most people know that any dust that passes through the filter ends up back in your house group and can be very painful to allergy sufferers and anyone else who is sensitive to dust and other allergy items.

The filter also serves another very worthwhile purpose. It also stops the evaporator coil from becoming bunged with dust and reducing the efficiency of the model.

The evaporator coil is built like the radiator inside a car. Like your car radiator, it wont be able to do its job without the correct amount of airflow. I am comparing the evaporator coil to a car radiator because we all know what a radiator looks like where as a evaporator coil works to cool air as it goes through it.

During the passing years dust builds up between the fins of the evaporator coil and can condition a layer on the surface of the evaporator coil fins. This happens over a length of time and can take copious months or years to occur.

If you have your air conditioner looked at regularly, the contractor will check this and forewarn you when it needs to be cleaned. Airflow through the evaporator coil declines and the equipment efficiency begins to suffer. Equipment failure can occur and lead to expensive, unwanted repairs.

As you can see cleaner air is not the only advantage you will get from using an efficient air conditioner filter. Money will also be saved because your air conditioning will perform at maximum efficiency.

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