Space efficiency – Unlike split-system units, all components of a complete heating and cooling system are contained in one location, making package units ideal for situations in which indoor space is at a premium.

Energy-efficient heating and cooling performance – All Amana package units offer 13 SEER or higher cooling performance. Our package gas/electric units offer 80% AFUE heating performance, as well.

To understand how the science behind how an air conditioning condenser works, it’s helpful to think of it not as cooling the air but removing the heat from the air. Outside at the compressor and condenser plant, the heat removal or cooling process begins with refrigerant flowing into the compressor as cool gas. The compressor pressurizes the refrigerant and what was a gas becomes a hot liquid. The now-hot liquid refrigerant flows into the condenser which is made up of groupings of long hollow coils filled with the hot liquid. The condenser allows heat to escape from the refrigerant via multiple fin-like vents in the condenser casing so when the refrigerant reaches the end of these coils, it is markedly cooler and in liquid form but still under pressure. With this pressure, the refrigerant is forced into a tiny valve and escapes the condenser in a fine mist. The refrigerant mist begins to evaporate while flowing through another set of hollow coils. This evaporating action draws heat out of the air surrounding the coils, thereby cooling it. The AC or jointly used furnace fan blows air across the coils that reduce the air temperature and that cooled air is blown into the ducts and vents of the house.