Explain how the water leaked outside the pan and failed to cause the float switch to trip? That would indicate there is nothing wrong with the drain pan at all and something else is happening.We actually have a safety shut off switch on the current undersized drain pan. However, the water leaked outside of the drain pan, so the switch didn’t flip.A larger pan is not the solution, a drain that actually drains is*. Having said that, I had my annual "tune up" in May one year and in June (110° in AZ) the AC all of the sudden shut off one morning (mine had the safety switch). I paid $200 to have the drain unclogged (which they should have checked at the "tune up").
Do you think it is worth it to pay $1000 to enlarge the drain pan and fix the sensor, even though a full replacement job of the Evaporator Coil would be maybe $3000?
If you are talking about the drain pan that the HVAC unit sits in, then you are being fed some misinformation from the company.
"Undersized" isn't really a thing for that drain pan. That drain pan is a backup catch pan in case there is a leak someplace else with the air conditioning condensate drain. It should be dry 100% of the time *unless* something else is wrong. It is there to catch a leak and the float is there to shut off the HVAC system and prevent any more A/C condensate from draining and thereby overflowing the pan.
Statistics: Posted by twh — Sat Jun 15, 2024 12:26 am