Juice in my Air Conditioner?!?

[genoxy]

So I was cleaning my air con filters today, which I do every few months, and was surprised to find what looked like e liquid covering the filters and condensing in small pools down the bottom of the filter frame and inside the metal fins of the main unit...

I live in a warm climate and run my split system air con pretty much from waking up to bed time every day and vape quite a lot in that room so is it possible the air con in sucking in the vapour and condensing inside the unit? The colour and oily consistency was very similar to e liquid and had a faint smell but since I vape different flavours during the day I couldn't exactly say what it was. The room is in the vicinity of the kitchen which I do some cooking in but never noticed any liquid build up like this before.

Not a major concern but I'm curious now and wondering if anyone else has had this experience or if it could be something else entirely...

 

[llamainmypocket]

I've heard people say that it's only water that comes out but that hasn't been reasonably explained to me. It would be PG and VG which would sink to the floor, dry out, and get swept up. In this case it's getting sucked into your AC and consolidating.

I'm not saying that's what it is and if your really curious and have a couple hundred to blow then you can send it to a lab. If you have the time but not the money then you can do some research and deductive reasoning to come to a belief which is probably true.

 

[Ref Minor]

Clear it up, vape it, if you get the nic hit, it is, if you die, it is not.

 

[genoxy]

I've heard people say that it's only water that comes out but that hasn't been reasonably explained to me. It would be PG and VG which would sink to the floor, dry out, and get swept up. In this case it's getting sucked into your AC and consolidating.

I'm not saying that's what it is and if your really curious and have a couple hundred to blow then you can send it to a lab. If you have the time but not the money then you can do some research and deductive reasoning to come to a belief which is probably true.

I'm not entirely scientific but pretty sure PG and VG mixed together and heated don't create water...

 

[genoxy]

Clear it up, vape it, if you get the nic hit, it is, if you die, it is not.

would like to avoid this if possible

 

[scalewiz]

Ain't no way on God's earth you can vape that much! You'd have to be dead from too much nic and speaking from hell.

I'd say you're just experiencing some condensation of humidity in the air, combined with dust from the air and inside the unit. DON"T VAPE IT! 40 billion dust mites per hour can't be good.

But, on the other hand, you must have some really good juice!

 

[macdo]

The condensation from an evaporator(indoor coil) usually feels a bit oily. If you cook anywhere close to it this is normal. I do believe you could build up a film on the aluminum fins if you vaped full time and only blew it into the coil. If it can build up on car windows I'm sure it could accumulate on your coil.

 

[aubergine]

I had oily drippy goo in my ACs long before I vaped. Not to get technical, but it's AC goo.

 

[orbach]

I ran an experiment a while back in which I attached a foot long transparent plastic tube to the mouthpiece and drew vapor from the other end. I kept the tube looped down so the condensation would accumulate there. It condenses into what looks, feels, and flows like water. The juices I vaped where very dark brown and the resulting liquid looked nothing like it. It did have an extremely faint smell of the juice but hardly noticeable.

What people call condensation (that looks and tastes very much like juice) at the vent tube and mouthpiece is not condensation but juice that has being drawn up or splattered up (or both) while vaping.

 

[lynch]

Vape heavy in the kitchen for a few months then look if you have it there also

 

[genoxy]

Its so gross... I've clean it all up and will check again next time I clean the filters

The only thing I've changed in the room is vaping there and have NEVER seen that oily brown liquid anywhere in my air con before

Weird

 

[orbach]

Could be grease from the kitchen. I regularly have to clean my stove's exhaust fan to clear the dark oily liquid that accumulates there.

 

[eratikmind]

genoxy, here in Las Vegas, Nevada, we run our spit system AC units around the clock all year long. I only shut my units down when I am back in the SF Bay Area.

Having 2 dedicated zones (1st floor and 2nd floor) and only vaping on the first floor, I have not noticed any physical nor visual differences in either the return air filtering media nor the AC coils, when switching out the filters and cleaning the coils.

As a retired mechanical engineer, whom specialized in high rise and hospital HVAC design, I am quite curious as to where your return air grille/grilles are located and what else might have been drawn into them.

- Andy

 

[volume control]

Used eliquid buildup isnt really sticky from my experience, and even if the eliquid is colored it tends to be clear (like it builds up in my drip tips)I guess the eliquid could be mixed with the dust in there and get pretty brown though.

It sounds like you have smoke oil in your AC which means you probably cook a lot and the smoke has been getting pulled into the unit. If you have a stove vent, and pull that off, if its similar goo, then its the same thing

 

[Butters78]

I change my filter every month.

 

[spider362]

Not sure I'd really worry about finding juice in your air conditioner, especially if it contains propylene glycol, since it's used to help prevent legionnaires disease.

Here's a little bit about it: http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/new-members-forum/265383-vaping-shields-up.html#post5221343

 

[genoxy]

I should have taken a picture because now I'm really curious as it what it could be...

Not really worried about it because I'm vaping it into my lungs so it doesn't bother me if its in my air con, mainly curiosity

 

[Butters78]

I'm going to pour some ry4 on my filter. It will make my apartment smell sexy.

 

[genoxy]

I'm going to pour some ry4 on my filter. It will make my apartment smell sexy.

haha go for it!

 

[Bewenched]

Couldnt be ejuice, I actually tested it on a small mirror a while back. For a vaping session each exhale I blew it on the mirror. There was "liquid" on it, and I left it there and in the morning took a look and the mirror was completely clean. it had all evaporated.

note I vape a high VG ratio. YMMV.