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Blue Wizard said:
I used to but nothing technical. Mostly building and installing duct work and condensation lines and stuff like that.
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Ac quit a couple weeks ago. Replaced the capacitor. Nothing. Today i replaced the fan motor. When i flipped on the unit from inside it made this crazy humming noise. Im thinking thermostat is fucked? Also the blades now seem to be really tight and dont spin freely. The motor is but a few hours old.
 
Blades are tight now? They should turn freely, did you check the motor again? Are there any frayed or burnt wires in the outside unit?
 
This is all the outside unit. Capacitor replaced a couple weeks ago and a literally brand new motor today. Hums loud as hell snd does not spin. I dont know enough about it to fuck with the in house portion of the system.
 
Replacing run caps, motors and thermo stats was about as far as I got on the technical part of the job. If you needed duct work installed or a return air cabinet built I was your man.

Humming usually means the motor is trying to turn but can't, I've seen them burn up immediately if there's a short somewhere.
 
Blue Wizard said:
Replacing run caps, motors and thermo stats was about as far as I got on the technical part of the job. If you needed duct work installed or a return air cabinet built I was your man.

Humming usually means the motor is trying to turn but can't, I've seen them burn up immediately if there's a short somewhere.
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I really hope i didnt burn out the motor. 120$ i didnt really have.
 
Jimmyjonestoo said:
I really hope i didnt burn out the motor. 120$ i didnt really have.
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Yeah, I had that happen at work. Turned out there was a wire that had the insulation get stripped off and it was making contact somewhere on the unit (HVAC did the work not me) and it was over loading the motor.
 
Jimmyjonestoo said:
I know the heat works fine if that means anything.
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Nah. You can run heat on most units without the outside unit at all. If we had a AC unit break in the winter time at my old complex we used to switch them over to some setting that by-passed it. I can't remember what it was now because these units at my current complex are completely different.
 
Jimmyjonestoo said:
This is all the outside unit. Capacitor replaced a couple weeks ago and a literally brand new motor today. Hums loud as hell snd does not spin. I dont know enough about it to fuck with the in house portion of the system.
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Check the contactor;-) sure sounds like it's the contactor. They do go out pretty often
Pm me if you don't know what a contactor relay switch is.
It's the only thing in the compressor box that will chatter like that.
 
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Aeroknow said:
Check the contactor;-) sure sounds like it's the contactor. They do go out pretty often
Pm me if you don't know what a contactor relay switch is.
It's the only thing in the compressor box that will chatter like that.
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Yeah i have no clue what that is. Can you explain please?
 
Jimmyjonestoo said:
Yeah i have no clue what that is. Can you explain please?
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This is a contactor:
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It handles the power to the compressor unit. The low voltage lines from the thermostat switch hook up to it, and is used to turn the compressor on and off.
Check out these two vids:
This dorks video shows the actual switch in action.
Usually when the contactor goes bad, it fails to magnetically pull down the switch.
Please be careful when messing
around with electricity;-)
You should use a multimeter to fully test the contactor, which is best, and should be done either way. Make sure there is power being supplied(240v and 24v). You can quickly test the contactor by using a screw driver and manually pushing down the switch like that dork did in the video. If it now works and everything else is good, replace the contactor. 10-20 dollar part, available at any electrical distributor. :-)
 
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