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Can anybody tell what the seer rating is on my carrier air conditioner. The model number is 38CKC036510?
It was installed right before I moved into my house not to long ago and im just curious as to how effiecient it is.
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James M
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I have access to Carrier and that AC when used with an orfice type expansion coil, which I assume you have in your furnace, is 10.5 SEER. When used with a TXV expansion valve that SEER is 11.0.
I would not be too concerned about a unit that has a 11.0 SEER unless i ran the unit for many long months a year such as in Florida or the South of US where it is hot.
Your saving in the midwest with a 15 SEER on a yearly basis verses that 11 SEER which you have like in Chicago or Detroit or Dayton would only amount to about $50 a year in savings, if even that. Because not only would you be going to a 15SEER unit with expensive PURON coolant in it verses Freon 22, but you would be going to a high compression ratio and a high pressure system, wherein both the compressor and the lines are subject to lesser life due to the fact they are worked harder.
