In room A/C leaking water out exhaust hose

[scotts90ranger]

Odd question I know but this is a new issue with the stand up air conditioner/heater we have, it's a heat pump I believe (scrapped the box like 5 years ago) as we've just left it hooked up in the upstairs of the house. In the heat mode in winter a fair amount of water comes out of the drain which sounds normal with high humidity. What isn't normal from our experience is all the water that is now leaking out the exhaust hose and since it's an air duct it is leaking on the floor and the table I made for it to sit on.

So, what would make water get to the outlet side? Dirty condenser? I could bring an air tank up there and blow it out, there's some dust behind the filter...

Dumb thing is we got it from Costco so they would take it back but it isn't summer time so they don't have anything to replace it with and I don't really want to go with a normal electric heater... being that they would take it back makes me hesitant on taking the shell off (has a tape seam for some reason) and really investigating.

You guys have a VERY varied background so you never know

 

[franklin2]

How cold is the hose as it exits the window? There will be warm moist air exiting that hose, and if it's really cold outside and it makes the exhaust hose cold enough, the moist exhaust air is going to condense and turn to water inside the hose.

Can you sit the unit up high on a table so the hose going out the window is downhill to the outside?

 

[scotts90ranger]

Outside temperatures are low to mid 30's to high 40's lately when the problem has come up. The reason I made the table is to get the hose flat and short since the window is high:

The cookie sheet and plate are what happened to catch the water over the night, maybe a cup of water just last night.

Would insulating the hose make it better or worse? I imagine better as it wouldn't cool until outside... but sometimes I think upside down and backwards...

 

[Curious Hound]

Weird. Being wintertime, the air is normally much less humid and therfore less condensate than summer months. 2 things I can think of.
1. The condensate drain is clogged.
2. It is low on refrigerant and occasionally icing up the coils. Then the ice melts and runs out.

 

[scotts90ranger]

Weird. Being wintertime, the air is normally much less humid and therfore less condensate than summer months. 2 things I can think of.
1. The condensate drain is clogged.
2. It is low on refrigerant and occasionally icing up the coils. Then the ice melts and runs out.

This side of the country is backwards from your side , we have all the humidity this time of year then gets dry in the summer... for reference we have had almost a foot of rain this year so far I think...

Being that it's around 5 years old it could be low on refrigerant... I might wrap a towel around the exhaust hose tonight to see if it helps then blow out the coils tomorrow. The crazy thing is as soon as it kicks on I can hear water pouring out of the drain (it's 3' from my head going into a 5 gallon blue water dispenser jug) so I know it's not plugged but it sure is condensing a lot... I blew up the drain hose last night just to make sure it isn't plugged.