{"id":959,"date":"2012-08-06T08:00:14","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T12:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.boehmerheating.com\/blog\/?p=959"},"modified":"2012-08-02T10:40:33","modified_gmt":"2012-08-02T14:40:33","slug":"pittsburgh-ac-question-refrigerant-and-load-capacity-how-are-they-linked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boehmerheating.com\/blog\/air-conditioning\/pittsburgh-ac-question-refrigerant-and-load-capacity-how-are-they-linked\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh AC Question: Refrigerant and Load Capacity \u2013 How Are They Linked?"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you\u2019re like most people, you probably don\u2019t think too much about how your Pittsburgh\u00a0air conditioning system<\/a> works. All you really need to know is that when you switch on the system, your house gets cooler. But if you\u2019re looking to purchase a new air conditioner for your home, it\u2019s a good idea to know how to select the right one to fit the space you\u2019re trying to cool.<\/p>\n

Air Conditioning Basics<\/h3>\n

Air conditioners use refrigerant\u00a0as a coolant to remove heat from indoor air and transfer that heat outside. To do this, they cycle the refrigerant\u00a0through a closed loop of coils. When the cold refrigerant\u00a0enters the cooling coil of the air conditioner, it absorbs heat from the air passing by, thereby lowering the temperature of the air. That cooled air can then be transferred into your home and more warm air can be cycled past the cooling coils.<\/p>\n

Air Conditioner Sizing<\/h3>\n

The more air your air conditioner can cool at once, the larger its load capacity. In order to keep a particular space cool, an AC unit has to have a large enough load capacity to accommodate that type of air volume. A unit that\u2019s too small will obviously never be able to keep your room cool enough, but one that\u2019s too big will have a similar problem.<\/p>\n

The truth is that when it comes to air conditioner sizing, bigger is not better. It\u2019s best to simply get as good an estimate as you can of what type of load capacity is ideal for the space you\u2019re trying to cool and stick as close to that as you can.<\/p>\n

Load Capacity and Refrigerant<\/h3>\n

Of course, if you want your air conditioner to cool more air at a time, you\u2019ll need more coolant. But simply increasing the amount of refrigerant\u00a0in your air conditioner won\u2019t make it cool any better. Refrigerant\u00a0is simply one of many elements that contribute to effective cooling. And the larger the entire system is, the more refrigerant\u00a0is needed.<\/p>\n

So more refrigerant\u00a0technically contributes to greater cooling capacity, but it\u2019s not enough to accomplish that all on its own. There is really nothing you can do to increase the load capacity of your Pittsburgh air conditioner once it\u2019s in place. So for best results, make sure you pick out an appropriately sized unit the first time around. For any help choosing the right AC for your Pittsburgh\u00a0home, give\u00a0Boehmer Heating & Cooling<\/a> a call!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you\u2019re like most people, you probably don\u2019t think too much about how your Pittsburgh air conditioning system works. All you really need to know is that when you switch on the system, your house gets cooler. But if you\u2019re looking to purchase a new air conditioner for your home…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[275,132,112,140,113],"class_list":["post-959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-conditioning","tag-air-conditioning","tag-air-conditioning-installation","tag-carnegie","tag-oakdale","tag-pittsburgh"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boehmerheating.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boehmerheating.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boehmerheating.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boehmerheating.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boehmerheating.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=959"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.boehmerheating.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":961,"href":"https:\/\/www.boehmerheating.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions\/961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boehmerheating.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boehmerheating.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boehmerheating.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}