Odor leaking from Wall A/C please help

[kstampy]

I have a 4" intake and a 6" vortex with carbon filter in my room there's plenty of negative pressure in there but odor is still leaking from my wall A/C when it runs. I can't do anything to the outside of the A/C due to security reasons. Should I just put some ONA product inside the A/C or what do all you craft masters suggest? Something as low maintenance as possible of course but any amount of extra work to avoid the odor is worth freedom so please give any and all suggestions or links!

 

[RedRain]

DONT USE ONA, it will make your weed smell/ taste like ONA,

Basically you will always get smell leaks when using a window shaker, portable AC.

You can bulild a wall like 2-3 feet infront of the window and cut a hole in the new wall u just build. Put your window shaker in there. Then scrub that little section of hot air before you exhaust it outside.

do you pay for water? ever though of doing water cooling?

 

[kstampy]

I wasn't too keen on the ONA so thanks for the heads up. Yes I pay for water but I don't have an option on changing this AC any time soon. Not much space to build a wall but I see what you're getting at good idea.

 

[RedRain]

i have ONA sprayers in my condo, but no where near my intake, or inside my room

 

[Hammerhead]

Either get a larger scrubber or add another one. You should not be smelling anything anywhere if it's all set up properly. Over kill on the scrubber is a good thing IMO.

 

[Baba Ku]

First off, you need more intake area. 4" is choking you down. Optimum is just barely negative pressure. You will need less AC with the proper air flow.

I may be confused, but are you talking about a window AC? If so, be aware that most have vents built into them for fresh air intake. This needs to be shut, glued, and caulked. If it is sealed there will be no more odor leak from there.

 

[Hydropimp]

double post

 

[Hydropimp]

Anyone ever tried to make a box with a filter like for a central unit and a fan matching the same cfm of the intake on the window banger and put one of these on a fan connected to the box.



Seal the box get a fan and this maybe extra charcoal

 

[N'Kata DelGormo]

Very simple....Place DOWNY DRYER SHEETS in the filter portion of the front of your ac....Put a thick layer of them..Works perfectly..I have had this problem before with my ac right beside the damn electric meter outside!!!Do this and go outside and smell...Just like fresh clothes out of the dryer!!..You must change the dryer sheets daily as they act as a filter for the smell and quickly absorb the chronic smell if you dont change them out...

 

[kstampy]

Thanks for the replies.

Baba - If you have any good DIY links on how to do this so that I can look at it prior to busting it open to seal those vents I would appreciate it. I don't have any experience with the insides of window ACs (I dono why I said wall AC) but I figure them to be pretty simple. I didn't know about the vent and that could be part or all of the issue, thanks!

Nkata - Nifty idea but that could get costly and irritating quite quickly lol... thinking about 365x10-20 dryer sheets per year with 365 change outs makes kstampy googly eyed o.0

 

[N'Kata DelGormo]

Actually its very cheap and quite effective...And an instant solution.....You requested help asap and thats the answer...IMO...Very cheap....less than $20 per year

 

[Baba Ku]

kstampy, I don't know of a tutorial existing on sealing the vent...but if you simply take the back of the unit housing off, you can see all the inner workings of the unit. There will be a door separating the two partitioned areas and it will more than likely have a mechanical latch that is visible. If not, simply turn the AC on for a minute and work the vent button. You will be able to see what opens and shuts with the vent button. THAT is what you want to glue shut and caulk up. You may want to disable the latching mechanism while there as well to make certain it never opens again.