"NJ" wrote in message
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Hi,

We have a central air unit, and I was wondering if it is excessive to have the
condensor taken out and cleaned once every other year.

It's a Payne natural gas unit, (GB1AAV036065) with a blue plastic? cleanable
filter. They replaced the blue plastic filter with a fiberglass blue filter.
It fits poorly.

The two air vents do not have filters. I was thinking that air is getting
sucked in and clogging the condenser unit? Is this excessive?

Also, sometimes when the is igniting, it sounds like the gas is on, but it
fails to ignite? Or it sounds like it does ignite but the unit fails to notice
it's ignited? It happens about once in every 4 cycles.

It has been cleaned before because it would not heat. It would try to ignite 3
times and then just stop.

Just wondering if changing the vent opening and putting in a filtering vent
would help it out.

Thansk guys. I appreciate it .

This is Turtle.

Condenser coil is the coil on the outside of the house and can be washed out
every year with a water hose and does not need removing at all to clean.

The evaperator coil should not have to be removed and cleaned unless you are a
very poor filter keeper upper . If you keep a good clean filter in it you
should never have to pull it and clean it , but after about 20 to 25 year of use
i might say pull it to clean it.

Whay you have decribed on the furnace is a False start and you might have
furnace service come check it out for it should not False start at all.

TURTLE