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Reviewing the Barn's Air Conditioning System

Bob catches up with Mike Donaghey from American Standard behind the barn to learn more about the compressors. The units are part of the barn's air-conditioning system. They dissipate the heat from inside. The units have a powder paint finish and ceramic-coated screws to prevent rusting for safety as well as aesthetic reasons. Inside the lid is a little motor and a fan and on the interior walls is spined fin - a patented heat transfer agent that's essentially the copper pipe through which the refrigerant flows. Mike takes the sound jacket off to show Bob the scroll compressor which is nestled deep inside the unit. Scroll compressors have now replaced reciprocating compressors because they are more efficient. This a a 12-SEER unit (SEER in an acronym for Seasonal Energy Efficient Rating). The government has mandated that in five years this will be the minimum rating allowed. The compressor and coil both have 10-year warranties but can last much longer depending on the part of country. Rusting out of the casing -- especially with exposure to salt air -- is one big issue with life expectancy but aluminum to aluminum helps as does the powder coating.

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Reviewing the Barn's Air Conditioning System

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" Donna he is here from American standard -- Now this is the part of the air conditioning system or that the studio for the barn and what you call list and condensing it. The condensing unit and what does it do we dissipate the heat we take it from inside and that's where we. OK so this is an American standard made in the USA and the finish on it just like an automobile practically yeah how they put it that way on purpose -- they they. -- harder paint. A lot of safety concerns he actually run a finger right on it without any problem and kids like to play around these very much yeah. Biggest thing in the yard with significant to get on top of its public safety concerns about what done the ceramic coated screws. We'll be no rust on the unit ever been so now you've got this -- so we can look inside which is the fun part ink and we just lay the fan down. This this is the lid it's got a little motor man but. What do you call us the -- spine feminism patented. So heat transfer agent and it's basically the copper pipe that has the refrigerant the refrigerant exactly and then this is helping did. Dissipate the heat that's concentrated in the right. Most efficient heat to superior aluminum upon aluminum can we take this jacket off of the -- restaurant -- does that sound jacket. Again to -- that's -- yes does not as -- And then what are we looking at here. Scroll compressor snort for the market scroll is the big name now in our industry instead of a reciprocating compressor reciprocating yet and so what does that do course what's the advantage well we get more efficiency out of it. I'd have to be a twelve seer unit as he hours a seasonal energy efficiency rating. The government has mandated. That in five years this will be a minimum twelve seer the twelve here right now we have these -- these units can take it up to we have eighteen right now."

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