New Jersey Air Conditioning | A/C

The A/C includes the cooling and heating of air aspect of your home. Not only that but it also cleans the air and controls the moisture level. An air conditioner is able to cool a home because it moves heat from the indoor air to the outdoors. A chemical refrigerant absorbs unwanted heat and funnels it through a system of piping to the outside coil. The fan in the outside unit then blows outside air over the hot coil, transferring the heat from the refrigerant to the outdoor air. There are 5 mechanical components to most A/C units:

• The compressor
• The expansion valve or metering device
• The evaporator coil and blower
• The chemical refrigerant

The majority of central air conditioning units operate by on a split system. That is, they consist of a condensing unit or "hot" side (which includes the condensing coil, the compressor and the fan) that is situated outside, and a "cold" side (which consists of an expansion valve and a cold coil, and it is usually part of your furnace or some type of air handler) that is located inside your home. Your furnace blows air through the evaporator coil, which is what cools the air. This cool air is then circulated throughout your household by means of a series of air ducts.

Window units operate on the same principal except that both the hot side and the cold side are located within the same housing unit.