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Posted by Noon-Air on June 28, 2008, 7:58 pm
<Travis Bickell> wrote in message
>I was wondering if somebody could give me some advice on a problem
> I've been having with my Rudd Achiever 10 SEER AC unit. Problem may
> have started a couple of weeks ago when it wasn't cooling. So, I
> called an HVAC guy, who put 2 lbs. of freon in and charged me $209
> ($109 for the service call and $100 for the freon).
>
> Everything was working fine, but a few days later the system wasn't
> cooling again. So a different guy from the same company came out, and
> found that the breaker had tripped, evidently because the hardstart
> capacitor had blown. He wanted to charge me another $109 for a service
> call and $240 for the capacitor, which I suspected couldn't be more
> than a $50 part. So, I told him not to put it in, and I ended up going
> out to a local supply house where I bought one for $15. Put it in,
> and everything was working great again for a about a week.
>
> Yesterday, however, the house was hot again, because the compressor
> had turned off, and the fan in the basement was blowing warm air. I
> checked the beaker, and found that it had not tripped. But I figured
> I would try flipping it on and off which, lo and behold, caused the
> compressor to come on.
>
> Now, however, the compressor is turning off periodically, but turning
> back on when I flip the breaker on and off. So i'm basically at a loss
> as to what my next step should be.
>
> I was therefore wondering if anyone could give me any advice on
> whether this is a problem I could fix, considering that i'm a fairly
> competent auto mechanic. Or should I bite the bullet and turn the
> problem over to a pro.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help anyone can give me on this.
Oh goody....my favorite kind of customer.....not.
There is a lot more to this story that is not being told.
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