Air Conditioning - AC Blowing, Not Cooling. I'm dying here.

I recently moved into a new apartment and oddly enough this has been by far the coolest (temperature) apartment yet. For the last several days I've had the cool air blasting and as of tonight I came home to find my apartment was about 90 degrees.

I started doing some research online and eventually stumbled onto this forum. Good information here, but I'll admit - I have no idea what the hell I'm doing.

The blower (motor) turns on inside the apartment and it acts like it did before - the only difference is the air coming out of the vents is barely cool. It's basically like having a weak fan in each room, pushing somewhat warm air around.

I removed the panels to examine the unit itself and understand it but I haven't discovered much:

1. The fan is on and there seems to be no problem there.

2. The air coming out is not cool.

3. The lines are not frozen or wet.

4. Assuming I've figured out which outside unit is mine, the fan does run occasionally.

5. I touched the coils briefly and they're not cool at all.

6. There is no condensation anywhere in the unit that I can find.

7. The air filter is reasonably clean.

Judging by these factors, I am lost. I am going to call the leasing office but there's no telling how long it will take them to get out here. My biggest concern is that after reading a ton of posts on the forums I rarely saw anyone say the unit appeared totally dry in every sense with no condensation or water present. At the risk of being dramatic, this is making me miserable. I can't sleep without being cold (insomniac as it is) and I am basically pacing back and forth sweating profusely.

Please help soon.

Thanks,

SB.

I'm afraid there is nothing we can do for you here. This is not a DIY project, but a watch-the-apartment-maintenence project.


Depending on the age of your apartments there are dual units where one condensor unit services two apartments. Inside the condensor unit is two separate compressors and coils, but one fan and motor. Strange, but true. Anyway, annoy your apartment super and wait and watch. That's about all you should do. Oh, and annoy in a nice sort of way. Cookies or brownies usually helps.

Being rental property there isn't much you can do without permission. But at least check your electric panel for tripped breaker or blown fuse(s).

Well, several things. Is the thermostat set correctly? Programmed correctly? You sound like that you do not know which compressor unit outside that is even yours. Turn on the unit inside and see which compressors are on outside then, go inside and turn a/c breakers off then recheck if your comp. is off... If you do this again to make sure, it takes about 5 mins delay for the unit to come back on because it needs to equalize freon b4 coming back on. After determining that you have found your unit outside and it's running for about several minutes, is there hot air flowing out of the fan? There's more...
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Good Luck!

you need a professionl, from what your saying you sound like your short of refrigerant... perhaps not short enough to ice, but short enough to not cool, and this is a very fine line... Id say you evaporator may be dirty but even short on a dirty evaporator you should be starting to sweat on the coil ubends... and you mentioned your airflow is good which 99% of the time rules out a dirty evaporator.... you said your outdoor unit fan runs sometimes?.. if your compressor is running so should your fan.. so something could be dropping out on internal overload... again hard to say without exact equipment model #s... but call landlord.