They made air conditioners too?

[lightedcontrols]

We had

a Chrysler Airtemp central air conditioning/heating system in Mom & Dad's first house in Florida. It was installed in the mid 60's and replaced in the 90's. It still worked but they wanted more effeciency. Mark

 

[captainmoody]

My house has central air and I really had no need for that ac unit, but for 10.00 I thought it at least might make a good "emergency spare"!
Plus, how could I resist that neat looking late 60's/early 70's style? It should go well with my woodgrain Whirlpool Mark XII!

 

[jakins]

Fibber McGee

the link below is for an OTR isit that plays shows originally played in the current month. look for the show fibber mcgee wed. part 4. The sponcer was Airtemp. the show has the orig. commercials.

John

http://users.adelphia.net/~n1dk/

 

[appliguy]

Steven, Chrysler Marine was not bought by Mercury Marine

It waw sold to the manufacuter of Bayliner boats in late 1984 and the name was changed to Force. Into the early 90's all Force outboards were rebadged Chryslers sporting a design dating back to 1965 When Chrysler Marine (who up until that point had been an inboard manufactuer) bought the outboard division of West Bend Aluminum Company. As a matter of fact the 1965 West Bend Outboards were called West Bend By Chrysler.
PATRICK COFFEY

 

[alr2903]

captain moody no need for..............

Sure you need it, our Mstr. bedroom is in the front of the house, Kills the school bus and garbage truck noise.we rotate shifts at work around here,and often are day sleepers. Mighty nice to have on hand for the bedroom if the central fritz's out on a weekend. We have always had a widow unit hanging out that master bedroom window it,s low and the bushes hide it. In Fact we picked up a$50.00 clearance unit at h. depot. this past winter. we usually get around 8k btu. You know down here we March to a open box A/c sale like we are going to war. LOL arthur

 

[Cybrvanr]

Great! Glad to hear you rescued that cool lookin A/C. I bet the output is really cold. Is it an R12 or R22 unit? Some window units are R12, and they get REALLY cold...great for de-humidifying! I've got a Carrier window unit in my bedroom primarily because I like the BR a little bit cooler than the rest of the house. Instead of wasting money chilling the whole house down to where it's too cold, I can just run the window unit to supplement the central AC. The unit also heats too, as a heat pump, and supplements my whimpy central heat pump during the winter! You're right tho, a good window unit drowns out the outside sounds. I've always liked the pleasing hum of a good AC unit, it's very relaxing!

 

[tolivac]

I am a day sleeper becuase of my mid shift and have to run a fan and an air purifier-both are nice during the hot humid summer days-along with the central AC-the fan and purifier drown out my neighbors barking dogs.

 

[captainmoody]

It's an R-12 unit cybrvanr, gets real cold too! Was just running it today in the garage window and had the whole place cooled down quite fast.
Anyone remember Fedders? A friend had one of those from the mid 60's mounted in the wall at his mom's house, it never died but rattled and vibrated like heck! Were they normally that way? She claimed it was always like that since new, her son and I removed it in the late 90's (still working great)when she got central air.

 

[chad_hauris]

They were still using the Chrysler Airtemp window units at Ohio University in Athens as late as 1999. They were in some of the early 1800's era buildings on the College Green. I remember they had the Chrysler pentastar medallion on the outside.

I am missing my 22,000 BTU Kenmore window unit...the squirrel cage fan rotor appears to have gotten eccentric (bad mounting to motor? rust?) as I get a grinding noise and bits of rust blow out when I turn it on...compressor is still fine though, ice cold air. I even got a 40 amp contactor w/ 12 volt coil and hooked it up to a thermostat so I could have true thermostatic control of it.
I don't know how I will be able to fix it though unless I can find a new squirrel cage.

 

[chad_hauris]

Actually I guess my unit is a "Sears Coldspot" not "Kenmore"...its from the late 60's early 70's. It was left in the barn by previous owners and worked great for 5 yrs. Just recently it developed the problem. Thought it was bad motor bearings but oiled them and that was not it.

 

[bwoods]

Chrysler had a plant in Dayton, OH for years. (As did Frigidaire) Airtemp made window air conditioners, central air conditioners and furnaces.

Builders in the Dayton area used Chrysler Airtemp extensively in the 1950's.

My parents house was built in 1954 and had a very nice looking Airtemp oil furnace that worked well until they sold the house in 1999. I bought them a carbon monoxide detector in the mid-90's as I was worried about a furnace that old leaking fumes. No leakage whatsoever.

A funny story from my dad. The first year they moved in the furnace was not operating properly. After several attempts to fix it, Chrysler sent two men direct from the factory in Dayton.

My dad said they arrived in their white coats (like a lab coat), probably thinking they would just make a few adjustments and be out of their.

A couple of hours later my dad went downstairs to find the two technicians covered with black soot and oil and with the entire burner taken apart and spread over the basement floor.

Two dirty and unhappy factory technicians left at the end of the day, but the furnace worked!

If I am recalling correctly, Fedders bought the Airtemp Division from Chrysler in the 1970's.

A bit of trivia, Chrysler Airtemp was the first AC manufacturere to offer a window unit that fit casement windows.
It sat vertically instead of horizontally.

Barry

 

[toggleswitch]

even got a 40 amp contactor w/ 12 volt coil and hooked it u

Te he he he.
I did this with my 10,500 BTU/hr (purposely undersied) Freidrich brand wall A/C in my aparmtent also to get the room to be comfortable. I dotn care what the incimong air temp is on the coil I want my room to be XX*F damn it!

In my case I just used a (hydronic/hot-water heating) circulator relay. These produce 24v to shoot out to a low-voltage thermostat to control a 110v pump.

Low voltage thermostats are used because they are generally accurate to a 0.5*F (0.25*C) temperature swing; whereas line-voltage ones are accurate to about a 2*F swing (1*C swing)

The comfort level was GREAT!

Today however I believe the remote controls for A/C's now have thermistor/thermometers/thermostats in them so they actually DO sense room air temps!