reef broke air conditioner?

[ebojo]

So the AC for the upstairs of my house has not been working properly for like 6 months now. The house is roughly 15 months old, and thus is the AC, and the house has a separate AC for the upstairs. The AC guy came today and, after unsuccessfully fixing the problem on his last several visits, now has my mom convinced that my 20g and my brothers 10g put off too much humidity and is causing the AC to not be able to cool. Combined, we have a total of about 150W total worth of light. Keep in mind, these aquariums went up roughly 3 months ago, 3 months after the AC problem.

Somehow, my 90g setup downstairs with roughly 400W total does not have this problem.

Someone that has any experience with this please enlighten me. I find it hard to believe that this guy has any idea what he is talking about.

 

[Lynnmw1208]

um I think you need a new repairman

 

[ebojo]

everything else in the house is broken. i think my mom just hates the aquariums, and thus wants to believe him.

 

[b0bab0ey]

The guy is full of $@*!

I've had 100s of gallons of aquariums throughout a house that had central air, no problems.

Currently I live in a small, 1-bedroom apartment that has two window units. I have roughly 100 gallons in 3 different aquariums. Again, no problems.

Tell your mom to call another a/c guy. Preferably one that isn't trying to rip her off.

 

[ebojo]

The AC has been set to like 70 for the past month straight and never dropped below 78, even at night when none of the lights are on. I love people that refuse to do their job.

 

[jerpa]

There is a problem that he doesn't want to fix. That would be like saying a vaporizer in an infants room will stop an air conditioner from working. Bull.

 

[AquaReeferMan]

Bologna.

 

[disc1]

everything else in the house is broken.

There's a clue. They just don't build them like they used to.

 

[Crazed]

+1 to the the repairman is full of crap. The only possible problem excess humidity would cause an air conditioner is a buildup of ice on the evaporator, which should not happen if the unit is properly running (ie, not low on refrigerant and so on). 30 gallons of water isn't going to humidify a room so much, anyway, with so little surface area exposed.

I used to (and sometimes still do) work with my father (who is an HVAC technician) all the time and have a good grasp of this stuff. The repairman is lazy. I'd find someone else.

 

[ebojo]

Thank you all for your input. Makes me feel a lot better knowing this guy is an idiot.

 

[organism]

Thank you all for your input. Makes me feel a lot better knowing this guy is an idiot.

He sure is, that's some nonsense right there...

 

[0 tds]

Sounds like he did not know how to fix the problem so he put it back on you charged his service fee and went to the next customer. I would not do business with them again.

 

[Ethan Music]

There's a clue. They just don't build them like they used to.

I have to agree here lol my parents just bought a new house and my Dad is always fixing stuff. And his a retired vet so I guess it gives him somthing to do. Their ac wasn't working either can't remeber what the guy did but took like 10min lol.

 

[ebojo]

For the record, someone new came out today and found the problem in a maximum of like 10 minutes. A valve was stuck somewhere.