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An overworked air conditioner usually shows warning signs before it breaks down. Here is how to spot long run times, weak airflow, and rising humidity, and what to check first.

You are trying to relax, and your air conditioner will not settle down. It kicks on, runs for a minute or two, clicks off, then starts the whole thing over again a few minutes later. The house never quite gets comfortable, and that constant clicking on and off has a name in the trade: short…