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I have a central air ac unit with the outside fan unit and the air handler inside. I believe it was installed in 2011. So it's a bit older. I noticed my outside unit was louder than usual, and I could hear a water trickling sound inside where the two lines meet the blower. I pulled my air filter and it was clogged, ( bad homeowner). I went and bought new filters mrv5 which were the cheapest I could find at home Depot and least restrictive. I also used my hose to spray the fins outside. It seemed to work fine, but every night it ices up outside (typically in the early am), and I hear that water trickling sound from the copper lines inside. I tried to open up the unit to clean the A Coil, it is near impossible to take that thing out with all the copper coils in front of the panel. I managed to peek inside and it didn't look super dirty but I cannot see between the coils at all. Maybe there's a bunch of dust built up in there. I had two techs come out. One guy said the refrigerant was a bit low but not low enough to need any more recharge, he said the pressure was holding fine and the temperatures all looked good. The second tech came back a week later and I told him everything I posted earlier, he went to do the same process as the first guy. He came out and said my capacitor for the blower was rated at 5V but was testing at 3.5V so he changed it, told me my blower might be going out and next time listen to the blower inside if it ices up again. I got charged once for a visit and second for a capacitor. My unit still ices up at night and during the day there is so much condensate on the outgoing vents from above the A coil housing, it never did that before. I think I messed it up by letting the filter go so long without being changed. Any advice here? It runs for hours on a 80 degree day to reach an inside temp of 76, the house gets warmer than outside even with windows open, so ac would be nice. Thank you for reading my novel.
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Summary
The post is about an air conditioning icing/condensation issue, not windows or window replacement.
Reasoning
This is a HVAC troubleshooting post focused on the AC unit, blower, refrigerant, capacitor, and condensate; windows are not mentioned as a problem or consideration.
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“I have a central air ac unit with the outside fan unit and the air handler inside.”
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“My unit still ices up at night and during the day there is so much condensate on the outgoing vents from above the A coil housing”
Model: gpt-5.4-mini · Prompt: v3 · 8/9/2026, 9:01:26 AM