CNK Heating and Air Conditioning, Inc

Humidifiers: Humidifiers When it comes to the comfort of your indoor air, temperature isn’t the only thing to consider. For many families, a whole home humidifier not only provides the right amount of moisture for total comfort, it can also help to keep irritating airborne particles from circulating as easily.

Air Handlers: An air handler, or air handling unit (often abbreviated to AHU), is a device used to condition and circulate air as part of a heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning (HVAC) system. Usually, an air handler is a large metal box containing a blower, heating and/or cooling elements, filter racks or chambers, sound attenuators, and dampers. Air handlers usually connect to ductwork that distributes the conditioned air through the building, and returns it to the AHU. Sometimes AHUs discharge (supply) and admit (return) air directly to and from the space served, without ductwork.

Evaporator Coils: Installing the correct indoor or evaporator coil is essential for getting the highest performance and comfort from your central air conditioning or heat pump system. The evaporator coil is a piece of a equipment that is useful in sending cold air throughout the ductwork located in your home.

As air is passed through the system, the coil will absorb the heat and you in return get that cold breeze throughout the house. For best performance, it is recommended that you install a brand-name coil with a brand-name air conditioner or heat pump system. And as always, brand-name equipment offers some of the best warranty protection coverage in the heating and cooling industry.

Air Conditioners: A traditional air conditioning system has three parts: an indoor unit, such as a furnace or air handler, an indoor air conditioning coil and an outdoor condensing unit. The blower in the furnace runs and pulls air across the indoor evaporator coil which cools the indoor air and distributes the cool air through the supply air ducts.

The hot air is released to the outdoor condenser unit releasing the heat that the refrigerant picks up from the indoor coil. When the air conditioner is properly matched with a furnace or air handler, you get maximum efficiency and longer system life. Air conditioning and cooling efficiency is measured using a Seasonal Energy Efficiency Ratio (SEER). A higher SEER rating means higher energy efficiency.

Furnace: A furnace works to keep a home warm in the winter and plays a critical part in the operation of an air conditioning system. Furnaces produce heat through the combustion of natural gas in the furnace's burner. The heat produced from this process then passes through a heat exchanger.

Air from your home's return air ducts is blown over the heat exchanger, thus warming the air. The furnace's blower then blows the warmed air into the ductwork, which carries and disperses the warmed air throughout the home. During warmer months, the blower inside a furnace continues to circulate return air throughout the home--only this time, the return air has been cooled by being blown over the indoor coil portion of the home's split-system air conditioning system.