“Water can be one of the biggest problems in air conditioner or fan coil systems. Although we may have plenty of it falling from the sky, let one drop of it get through a ceiling from a fan coil system and you can be in trouble,” said Gerry Hooper, technical director of EDC International, speaking about condensate pumps at a FETA Fan Coil Group meeting. According to the company’s press release, although they had a vitally important function he felt that condensate pumps were vastly underrated in fan coil and ac systems. “Too many installers”, said Mr Hooper, “regard a condensate pump as just another component to go wrong.  How wrong they are.  In a properly installed system, pumped condensate discharge can in fact solve many problems”.

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