Finally got a free compressor but is it too big??

We just got a heat pump installed at my house (I'm home from college for the Summer) so Dad wanted to throw out our 25 year old (still works perfectly, I might add) A\C window unit. It's rated at 28,000 BTU and runs on a 220v outlet!! This thing's heeaaavvyyy too. The LRA rating is 74 on the compressor. I'm new to phase-change cooling, and I was really wanting to do a DIY, but I think this compressor might be a bit too hardcore for me, requiring the only 220v outlet in our house (not in my room, either). It's pretty nasty too.....it needs a cleanup of magnitude unheard of in this universe. Its out on the front porch now. Should I tell Dad to go ahead and can it or not?

Ge|atinousFury said:

We just got a heat pump installed at my house (I'm home from college for the Summer) so Dad wanted to throw out our 25 year old (still works perfectly, I might add) A\C window unit. It's rated at 28,000 BTU and runs on a 220v outlet!! This thing's heeaaavvyyy too. The LRA rating is 74 on the compressor. I'm new to phase-change cooling, and I was really wanting to do a DIY, but I think this compressor might be a bit too hardcore for me, requiring the only 220v outlet in our house (not in my room, either). It's pretty nasty too.....it needs a cleanup of magnitude unheard of in this universe. Its out on the front porch now. Should I tell Dad to go ahead and can it or not?

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Yeah it is pretty large, waste of power for chilling/direct die.But you should clean it up and get it nice and put it in the paper and sell it.At least get some money from it.

yup too big , get something around 6000btu-10000btu should work fine and 120v, 220v are not good, waste as aenigma point it out

Well 220 is fine if you have it.Not all compressors that are 220 are big.
10,000btu is also overkill.And you don't need an a/c compressor, just use what you can get.
Air conditioner compressors are also pretty loud.
A refrigerator/freezer compressor is ideal.

Sell it and buy the right stuff you need.