hudoff
Jul 12, 2006, 06:10 PM
I live in a condo where we have water cooled 3 ton heat pumps for each unit. We have a large cooling tower on the roof. Our building is 25 years old and about a quarter mile from the beach in Florida.
My A/C shut down yesterday and when I restarted it it did the same after a few minutes. I found the water outlet to the cooling tower very hot. (It is usually about 105 degrees).
I removed the line and flushed the unit to a pail. A lot of what I would call sandy water came out of the heat exchanger. This has happened before. First, can I install a strainer/filter to prevent this? The lines to the A/C are 3/4 inch.
Should the cooling tower have a large filter on the run to the A/C units to prevent this? (The tower is about three years old).
I asked the manager and he thinks it is normal and is some kind of pipe scale...
Let me know what you think.
Thank You
My A/C shut down yesterday and when I restarted it it did the same after a few minutes. I found the water outlet to the cooling tower very hot. (It is usually about 105 degrees).
I removed the line and flushed the unit to a pail. A lot of what I would call sandy water came out of the heat exchanger. This has happened before. First, can I install a strainer/filter to prevent this? The lines to the A/C are 3/4 inch.
Should the cooling tower have a large filter on the run to the A/C units to prevent this? (The tower is about three years old).
I asked the manager and he thinks it is normal and is some kind of pipe scale...
Let me know what you think.
Thank You