Derek Cole explains why air conditioners smell like wet socks: condensation drips into the drain pan, and if it doesn't drain properly, standing water breeds microbes. A UV-light coil scrubber kills the growth and stops the odor.
Yeah, musty is that kind of wet, damp, dirty socks, bottom of the hamper kind of smell. So that is musty. The reason it smells that way is because in air conditioning you have to remove moisture to get humidity out of the air. So air conditioning is all about removing heat, right? So you're taking heat out of the air, it's going over a cold coil which has refrigerant in it, and it's coming back out cooler air than what came in. So the byproduct of that is water. So that's why you have drain lines That's why you see water dripping outside. So what will happen is when you have that hot air going across that cold coil, you get condensation, and that's going to drip down to the drain pan. Well, if that drain pan is not draining or something is the matter, things will start growing in that drain pan because you have cold water sitting in a damp, dark spot. So the thing that happens is growth, right? The way to prevent that from happening is to introduce UV into that system somehow. Now we do it here with the coil scrubber, which shines on the indoor coil, has the UV power so nothing can grow in UV. In the indoor air environment, in the air handler, that is not present, so we have to make it present with UV light. UV light will solve that problem. So the same power of the sun, the same energy that holds, we can bring into your system and that'll stop that damp, dusty musty smell.
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