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jim
 
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Default Hvac question, do I clean the evaporator if I have access to it?

CMF wrote:

As you can tell from the question, I am not an HVAC person, but I recently
discovered a rather significant cold air loss in my attic due to a shoddy
job of evaporator replacement a few years ago. No telling how much money I
have thrown down the drain cooling my attic!

Anyway, I'm up there doing some cleanup and a little sheet metal work to
seal this beast off again, and I wonder if I should do anything to clean the
evaporator while I am in there? right now, I can't tell how dirty it is if
any because it was kind of frosty, but I have turned the unit off and will
go check shortly.

If I do clean it, what should I use? Personally I'm guessing that I should
leave it alone, but want to hear from experts. And I know I should hire a
professional to do this, but I'm not completely inept, however I am
completely broke.

--
Maury French

Wylie, TX
"I cannot teach my kids ethics if I do not
practice them myself"

disconnet the fixture from the power supply and make sure you got power
to it.. then take the back cover off the box in the light fixture(its
gonna be plastic) and there is a small fuse in it... go to radio shack
and get a replacement for it(about four in a pack for $2.50) and replace
it.. it probably blew with the power outage.. mine did.... real cheap
fix. and then you have 3 fuses left over for other things that might go
bad if you can find them when needed....