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Innovative technology and design have made today’s air conditioners more comfortable and efficient than ever before. When you need cool, comfortable, cleaner air, we are dedicated to providing the very best investment you can make in ensuring the comfort of you and your family.
How Does An Air Conditioner Work?
Air conditioners and refrigerators work the same way. Instead of cooling just the small, insulated space inside of a refrigerator, an air conditioner cools a room, a whole house, or an entire business.
Air conditioners use chemicals that easily convert from a gas to a liquid and back again. This chemical is used to transfer heat from the air inside of a home to the outside air.
The machine has three main parts. They are a compressor, a condenser and an evaporator. The compressor and condenser are usually located on the outside air portion of the air conditioner. The evaporator is located on the inside the house, sometimes as part of a furnace. That's the part that heats your house.
The working fluid arrives at the compressor as a cool, low-pressure gas. The compressor squeezes the fluid. This packs the molecule of the fluid closer together. The closer the molecules are together, the high its energy and its temperature.
The working fluid leaves the compressor as a hot, high pressure gas and flows into the condenser. If you looked at the air conditioner part outside a house, look for the part that has metal fins all around. The fins act just like a radiator in a car and help the heat go away, or dissipate, more quickly.
When the working fluid leaves the condenser, its temperature is much cooler and it has changed from a gas to a liquid under high pressure. The liquid goes into the evaporator through a very tiny, narrow hole. On the other side, the liquid's pressure drops. When it does it begins to evaporate into a gas.
As the liquid changes to gas and evaporates, it extracts heat from the air around it. The heat in the air is needed to separate the molecules of the fluid from a liquid to a gas.
The evaporator also has metal fins to help in exchange the thermal energy with the surrounding air.
By the time the working fluid leaves the evaporator, it is a cool, low pressure gas. It then returns to the compressor to begin its trip all over again.
Connected to the evaporator is a fan that circulates the air inside the house to blow across the evaporator fins. Hot air is lighter than cold air, so the hot air in the room rises to the top of a room.
There is a vent there where air is sucked into the air conditioner and goes down ducts. The hot air is used to cool the gas in the evaporator. As the heat is removed from the air, the air is cooled. It is then blown into the house through other ducts usually at the floor level.
This continues over and over and over until the room reaches the temperature you want the room cooled to. The thermostat senses that the temperature has reached the right setting and turns off the air conditioner. As the room warms up, the thermostat turns the air conditioner back on until the room reaches the temperature.
Heat Pumps are a great solution for your home comfort system. That is because they work to provide both heating and cooling. Whether it is the hottest day of the summer or the coldest day of winter, Trane heat pumps work day in and day out to provide your family with premium comfort.
We don’t just work to make sure your home’s air is warm or cool. We work to make sure it’s as clean and comfortable as it can be. With Trane’s breakthrough CleanEffects air filtration system, providing your family with the cleanest air in the industry is just a phone call away! A blessing for asthma and allergy sufferers, it can remove up to 99.8% of airborne allergens from your home’s air as it’s heated or cooled.
“Trane CleanEffects. The world’s most effective whole-house air filtration system”
Trane CleanEffects™ utilizes patented, breakthrough air cleaning technology to remove up to an astounding 99.98% of airborne allergens from the air that passes through the filter, making it 8 times more effective than even the best HEPA room filters and up to 100 times more effective than a standard 1" filter. What's more, Trane CleanEffects™ has been performance-tested by LMS Technologies and Environmental Health and Engineering, Inc. (EH&E), and the results verified by professors from the Harvard School of Public Health, so you know you're getting an air filtration system like no other.
LMS Technologies is a technology consulting company that specializes in air flow measurement, filtration testing and particle analysis. Environmental Health & Engineering is an environmental consulting and engineering services company that is dedicated to ensuring safe and productive environments, and is co-founded by Dr. John D. Spengler, PhD of the Department of Environmental Health at Harvard.
Trane CleanEffects™ specifics:
- Removal of up to 99.98% of particles and allergens from your filtered indoor air.
- An industry-leading clean air delivery rate of 1,200.
- Low operating costs, with no replacement filters to buy.
- Cleaning indicators easily visible on the outside of the unit.
- Easy to clean filters - just vacuum or rinse once every 3 to 9 months (depending on usage).
- Easy installation.
- Quiet operation.
- Minimal ozone generated, less than 5 PPB (parts per billion), well below the 10 PPB FDA voluntary emission limit for medical devices and significantly below some ionic-type room appliances that may reach hundreds of PPBs.
- Low pressure drop.
Why low pressure drop is good
The standard air cleaners on the market have filters that are very dense. Meaning they try to stop the dust by trapping it in a slightly porous filter. The fewer the pores the more dust it can trap. However, this not only stops the dust and dirt, but it also stops the air from moving as well. In other words, the amount of air that goes through your system is reduced so you may not be as comfortable. Less air is cleaned and less efficiently. This is called pressure drop. The revolutionary Trane CleanEffects™ air filtration system has the lowest pressure drop with the highest efficiency possible. Our unique patented technology is designed to let air flow freely through the most advanced filtration system available. The result, more of your air is cleaned faster and more effectively than anything else on the market.
Backed by Trane's industry-leading limited warranty
- Trane CleanEffects™ has a ten-year limited warranty on the system's electronics, and a five-year parts limited warranty on the system filters.
- Extended warranties are available for Trane CleanEffects™ and also the rest of your Trane system. Ask your installing dealer for details.
“TRANE FreshEffects”
Exchanges stale indoor air for an equal amount of fresher outdoor air. Retains heat and moisture from exchanged air in winter, but pre-conditions and dehumidifies incoming air in summer - so your home is more comfortable year-round.
Trane FreshEffects™ specifics:
Every Trane FreshEffects™ Energy Recover Ventilator is packed with high-quality components. Each helps ensure that you can count on FreshEffects™ to deliver fresh air, time after time.
Today's homes are better insulated and tightly sealed to save energy. This prevents a number of home odors (cooking smells, pet odors, paint or new carpet fumes) from escaping. Trane FreshEffects™ helps these fumes and odors to dissipate by bringing fresher outdoor air into your home.
Static Plate Energy Transfer Core means efficient transfer of heat and moisture.
High Performance, permanently lubricated ball-bearing motor.
Slide-out Filter for easy cleaning.
Includes Percent Timer Control.
Passive Defrost-Condensate Drain not required.
Multi-position Mounting.
Heavy Gauge, Powder Painted Steel Cabinet.
Closed Cell Foam Gasketing for insulation integrity.
Backed by Trane's industry-leading limited warranty.
Five-year limited warranty on internal functional parts.
Ten-year limited warranty on energy transfer core.
Optional Extended Warranties are available. Extended warranties cover labor, refrigerant, and other costs not covered by the Manufacturer's Limited Warranty, so you are covered for all parts and labor for the lifetime of the extended warranty.
Warranties are for residential use.
Ask your dealer for full warranty information at time of purchase.
Trane Perfect Fit™
The air in your home circulates through your heating or cooling system, carrying millions of airborne particles through the ductwork. When this air goes through an electronic air cleaner, the prefilter traps the majority of the large particles. The smaller particles continue to pass through the prefilter and receive a positive electrical charge. Collector plates, which carry a negative charge, attract these small particles like magnets, holding them until they're washed off. Cleaner, filtered air is then circulated throughout your home. The 1" filter that comes with your system is intended to protect your system but doesn�t do much to clean the smaller particles in the air.
The benefits of cleaner air
Particles in the air often aggravate conditions like allergies and asthma. With an electronic air cleaner, your heating and cooling system does more than circulate air-it actually works to clean it. A system that includes an electronic air cleaner can remove up to 95% of unwanted pollutants from the air passing through it, such as:
- Dust
- Pollen
- Animal hair and dander
- Dust mites
- Lint
- Smoke
- Cooking grease
- Some bacteria
Also, since an air cleaner draws the particles out of the air, your home's interior surfaces, such as wallpaper and paint, stay cleaner longer, helping prevent the kind of particle build up that can cause reactions in family members with allergies or asthma.
Adding a Trane air cleaner to your central cooling and heating system can make an enormous difference in the indoor air quality of your home while using less energy than a 40-watt bulb.
Backed by Trane's industry-leading limited warranty
- Trane electronic air cleaners have a five-year parts limited warranty.
- Extended warranties are available for electronic air cleaners and also the rest of your Trane system. Ask your installing dealer for details.
Thermostats
Trane XL800 Deluxe Programmable Thermostat
Your Comfort, Optimized
Every Trane control is packed with high-quality components. Each helps ensure that time after time, your system will provide total comfort your family can rely on.
Flexible comfort control
Set your thermostat for seven-day programming you can copy, 24-hour programming or manual operation.
Reliable operation
Will retain memory, has a real-time clock and changes for Daylight Savings Time.
Memory capabilities
Your programming function can be stored in permanent memory.
The Trane XL800 deluxe programmable controls include:
- Bright back-lit display with interactive touch screen
- Arm chair programming with removable screen
- Filter clean/replacement key
- Programming functions stored in permanent memory
- Manual or auto changeover
- Minimum compressor run time
- 3 - 10 degrees F dead band between heating and cooling set points in the "auto" changeover mode
- Conventional or adaptive intelligent recovery
- Min and max heating range
- Min and max cooling range
- Daylight savings time key
- Programmable fan can be programmed in the "on", "auto" or "circulate" mode for each period
- Vacation/leave program will hold vacation/leave temperature for up to 256 days
- Five-minute time delay for compressor protection
- Outdoor temperature display (as an optional accessory for the TAYSENS100A)
- 5-Year limited warranty
Air Handlers
An air handler is an important part of your home's comfort system. Your central air conditioning system consists of two main parts - an outdoor unit and an indoor unit. The air handler is the indoor unit and its job is to effectively circulate conditioned air throughout your home. When matched with a heat pump, it circulates both cool and hot air, depending on the season.
With properly sized Trane air handlers, your family has the right amount of clean, comfortable air all year round.
Plus, Trane air handlers make a significant contribution to the overall efficiency of your system. That's because the more efficient your air handler is, the less work your outdoor unit has to do to make your home comfortable.
A packaged unit contains the same components you find in a typical split system, however, they're all engineered to work together in one cabinet. And, just like other Trane systems, you have a variety of efficiency levels and air handling options to select from.