farmerjohn1324
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Some times the hole is there with a plug in it.
It would be on the bottom?
What if it's not? Where should I drill?
where you can be really sure you will not damage anything else.
It should tilt down at the outside so as close to the back as possible.
If that looks safer as to not hurt anything, go for it
The unit is designed to hold water and the fan blade should touch the water. The action of the fan hitting the water cleans the condensing coils and will make the unit run better and be more efficient.
If you think you know more than the guy that designed the unit go ahead and drill a few holes. After you run the drill thru the refrigerant tube and let the gas out you can ask the more challenging question of how to replace the coil and recharge the unit.
some are designed like yours because they can be used in situations where the dripping water would cause a problem where it dripped. Yours is supposed to evaporate the water with the fan pulling air across it.
Well obviously I wouldn't drill through the refrigerant tube.
Someone told me they design them that way so you have to buy a new one sooner.
They may well have what is called planned obsolescence in the product. I would think if they wanted to do that they would speck the motor or compressor to have a limited life and once they died you would have to buy another. Seems a strange way to make a product wear out would be omitting the drain hole and then designing a fan with a flinger ring attached to the fan and making it throw water on the hot coil cooling it and making the unit run more efficiently. They could have punched a hole and then the coils would collect dust and run hotter and people wouldnt spray them out and the unit would die quicker.
Let's take a better look at the actual problem. Is the water dripping into the wall or the house? Is it dripping out the back onto the ground? If so, is that causing a problem?
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