Why is my a/c cycling on and off every five minutes?

[Anonymous]

Repair folks coming tomorrow but in the mean time...any ideas?

I am home with a six week old baby and trying to think of options.

[Anonymous]

This can happen a few different ways, but the most common one is that there is a clog in the pipe or the system is otherwise working too hard, causing water to accumulate in the pan, lifting a float and turning off the machine. Often times a thorough cleaning and then resetting the fuse will resolve the problem. If you need a temporary solution replace the filter, so the system does not need to work as hard.

[Anonymous]

Also possible if pipe from compressor is frozen. Might just need new insulation.

[Anonymous]

leak

[Anonymous]

This happened when my DH put the filter in the wrong way.

[Anonymous]

turn it off. Let it rest. Turn back on. May be frozen which will need to be addressed but you can get a little more work out of it in the meantime by unfreezing.

[Anonymous]

Yep, was going to say to replace the filter. It might be really dirty which strains the system.