Window AC takes spells on cooling?

Our 1 year old Frigidaire window ac has started taking spells of not cooling. I though it was due to our high temperatures, but I am not sure that is the case. It will cool, then by noon time it only blows out air like a fan. It will go back and fourth with fan air and then cold air. We have cleaned the filter recentally and doesn't seem to have helped. We also have a smaller room ac, which is much older, and it has been doing fine, so that is why I am confused about it just being too hot. It has the energy feature, but we keep it on constant cool. Any help would be appriciated!

Lissajayne05 Aug 28, 2007

Thank you for the advice. We took the AC unit out of the window, and my husband throughally cleaned it. It seems to be working much better now.

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One thing to check is to make sure the evaporator and condenser coils are clean. Any dirt here will short ccle the compressor.

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Glad to be of help.

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