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    Default Can You use a smaller coil to a bigger condenser

    Do these two work together
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    Default Re: Can You use a smaller coil to a bigger condenser

    It depends on several factors.
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    Default Re: Can You use a smaller coil to a bigger condenser

    umm, bad idea. Symptoms, poor performance, compressor failure due to high superheat.


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    Default Re: Can You use a smaller coil to a bigger condenser

    I concur with the statements above. I'd also add that you could see frosting and freezing of the coil more often as well.

    It is generally a bad idea to under-size your coil.


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    Default Re: Can You use a smaller coil to a bigger condenser

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    Do these two work together
    Whirlpool M# WEMIP50Cw-1
    S# 6209D05207

    Nordyn
    M#NS4BD-O60KA
    S# NSA090400o71
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    EM1P50 is the same as a WEM1P50
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    Default Blower motor to small

    What would happen if You put a smaller blower motor. On a 5 ton system say a 1/2 or a 1/4 horse power motor. The system still doesn't work they replaced the coil with a 5 ton coil.


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    Default Re: Can You use a smaller coil to a bigger condenser

    Quote Originally Posted by Art McKenna View Post
    Do these two work together
    Whirlpool M# WEMIP50Cw-1
    S# 6209D05207

    Nordyn
    M#NS4BD-O60KA
    S# NSA090400o71


    You can go a little bigger on the coil, but it's a bad idea to go smaller.


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    Default Re: Can You use a smaller coil to a bigger condenser

    Quote Originally Posted by kevinvantassel View Post
    You can go a little bigger on the coil, but it's a bad idea to go smaller.
    I've run into this a few times lately and have called for HVAC to check it. Surely there must be some reason that the sizing is supposed to be matched, not larger or smaller. Mismatching must be a problem, otherwise why label the evaporator? The unit doesn't say "OK for 4 ton or smaller compressor".

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