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#280333 9-Dec-2020 13:34

I have a Panasonic Heatpump which when it's running at reasonable speed, frequently has a ticking or clicking noise coming from inside it at high frequency (often not high pitched).

It doesn't appear to to be the external fins and the noise can vary a little.

What sort of things cause these types of issues? It's driving me spare!

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#2618645 9-Dec-2020 13:45

is it the indoor or outdoor unit?

if its the outdoor unit check for leaves stuck in the fan/grill area, i pull a few out of the neighbours one yesterday that were making a ticking noise.

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#2618647 9-Dec-2020 13:47

Jase2985:

is it the indoor or outdoor unit?

if its the outdoor unit check for leaves stuck in the fan/grill area, i pull a few out of the neighbours one yesterday that were making a ticking noise.

Sorry, that was dumb for me to miss including. Inside unit.

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#2618651 9-Dec-2020 13:50

Will the unit allow you to run it without the filters? Always worth whipping them out and spooling it up to see if they have deformed over time and are now rubbing on something.

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#2618652 9-Dec-2020 13:54

networkn:

Jase2985:

is it the indoor or outdoor unit?

if its the outdoor unit check for leaves stuck in the fan/grill area, i pull a few out of the neighbours one yesterday that were making a ticking noise.

Sorry, that was dumb for me to miss including. Inside unit.

have you checked nobody has stuffed anything inside of it?

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#2618653 9-Dec-2020 13:55

hio77:

have you checked nobody has stuffed anything inside of it?

I can't work out if you are being serious? How or why would anyone do this?

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#2618654 9-Dec-2020 13:56

Ge0rge: Will the unit allow you to run it without the filters? Always worth whipping them out and spooling it up to see if they have deformed over time and are now rubbing on something.

I'll have a look later tonight. Cheers for that idea.

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#2618656 9-Dec-2020 13:59

networkn:
hio77:

have you checked nobody has stuffed anything inside of it?

I can't work out if you are being serious? How or why would anyone do this?

Have you children?

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#2618657 9-Dec-2020 14:01

Ge0rge:

Have you children?

Yes? Are you suggesting children would get a chair or ladder, climb up, open a heat pump and randomly stuff things inside it? Does this happen for real?

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#2618662 9-Dec-2020 14:08

Personally, I really have no idea of how high the unit is up your wall, whether there is a couch under it, or a table, or something else that a child could stand on and reach the inside unit, be it to flutter a piece of paper in front of it, that got sucked in and is now buzzing or ticking inside, or if a cicada has made a home in there. However, the question was asked if anyone knew what would make a ticking noise inside a box with a fan in it - and if you haven't looked inside to check for any foreign objects, then neither you nor I actually know what's in there- and the suggestion that there is something foreign is as valid as any other right now to be fair.

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#2618664 9-Dec-2020 14:11

networkn:

hio77:

have you checked nobody has stuffed anything inside of it?

I can't work out if you are being serious? How or why would anyone do this?

Am serious. Kids would be a reasonable consideration. It's like, why would a kid stick something in a power point.... because they can..

I am ofcouse assuming it's like a tick tick of something flapping against the inside. If it's more of a tick tick of a watch well.....

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#2618665 9-Dec-2020 14:12

There are also floor height units that children could reach without any aids.

It is a reasonable question.

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#2618669 9-Dec-2020 14:16

networkn:

Ge0rge:

Have you children?

Yes? Are you suggesting children would get a chair or ladder, climb up, open a heat pump and randomly stuff things inside it? Does this happen for real?

Yes. In a heartbeat I would not put this past either of my children (3 & 6) if the right opportunity was presented itself..

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#2618674 9-Dec-2020 14:18

Good lord. Oh well, fair enough, no, my kids would not have done this. I guess I need to pull the thing open and have a look for obvious other stuff.

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#2618745 9-Dec-2020 15:19

networkn:

hio77:

have you checked nobody has stuffed anything inside of it?

I can't work out if you are being serious? How or why would anyone do this?

Absolutely serious. I remember fixing a friend's VCR. It was full of small plastic toys pushed through the front from some visiting children.

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#2618746 9-Dec-2020 15:23

Rikkitic:

Absolutely serious. I remember fixing a friend's VCR. It was full of small plastic toys pushed through the front from some visiting children.

I can work out how VCR's kids can get into (they are are at a height relatively accessible to kids), struggling to see how it could happen with a heatpump on the wall, but apparently it happens, so fair enough I guess.....

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