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Posted by KJPRO on June 28, 2008, 10:44 pm
> I'm remembering the woman who called me, about two years ago. The central
> AC
> had stopped working. She reset the breaker, and it tripped back off. After
> about a dozen resets, the breaker finally stayed on.
>
> Some diagnosis later, I find that the blower motor had shorted. No big
> surprise, it's about six months out of warranty. And each time she reset,
> she sent a power surge through the control board. Which blew out, also.
>
> If I may suggest, first you're far enough out of your field, that you're
> dangerous.
Sounds just like Stormy.
> Second, call a different service company. Sounds like that guy
> was going in more or less the right direction. But, there is so much more
> to
> check. Third, the reason HVAC guys are pricey is cause they have the
> training and experience to find the problem. They do not have the Kmart
> Blue
> Light Special 2.99 price on parts. That bit you did with the guy was
> really
> totally unethical business. I hope he got his $109 trip charge at least.
I can't even believe you posted what you did here...
I mean, from a guy that takes money from drunk ole ladies and kicks in door
jambs...
> Christopher A. Young
> Learn more about Jesus
> www.lds.org
> .
>
>
> <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.
>
>
>
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