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jamie green Posted on Dec 03, 2013
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LG Gold window a/c unit W18TKM not dehumidifying the air - no water coming out the external hose, any ideas?

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Check the pressures of the refrigerant...sounds like it is low which means there is a leak that needs to be located & repaired.

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  • Posted on May 29, 2010

SOURCE: water coming through indoor unit

Clean drain.

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  • Posted on Sep 04, 2010

SOURCE: window air conditioner cools but doesn't dehumidify

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  • Posted on Sep 30, 2012

SOURCE: Blows very cold air during dehumidify mode.

se this fact: God bless you
air conditioning system cools but does not dehumidify the room. The most common cause of inadequate dehumidification by an air conditioning system is the installation of a cooling unit which has too much capacity, or is "over-sized" for the space it is being used to cool. What happens is simple:

If an air conditioning compressor unit is oversized (too many BTUH of cooling capacity) what happens is it cools the room so quickly that the system does not move enough total volume of air across the cooling coil to remove much moisture before the room temperature has dropped to the A/C cut-off point.

In other words, an air conditioner needs to run longer, and move more total volume of air through itself to drop room humidity than it does to just cool the air. So "bigger" cooling capacity or higher BTU capacity for an air conditioning system is not necessarily better, and it can actually be a problem.

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