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Posted by Ignoramus2645 on August 2, 2006, 10:37 pm
I have a central A/C. Around when there was a thunderstorm,
electricity flickered about 2-3 times in our house.
Now our A/C is not working. The inside is all fine, the fan runs etc.
I am doing investigation and will post in this thread, but the breaker
popped and any attempt to reset it pops it again. I tried to measure
amps with my ammeter, it was quite hard to do due to breaker popping
soon, but the highest measure I got was about 200 amps.
I am going to open up the case now to have a quick look, I will be
running back and forth. My hope is that it is something simple like
capacitor shorted, but it easily could be worse (eg motor shorted).
i
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Posted by Noon-Air on August 2, 2006, 10:39 pm
>I have a central A/C. Around when there was a thunderstorm,
> electricity flickered about 2-3 times in our house.
>
> Now our A/C is not working. The inside is all fine, the fan runs etc.
>
> I am doing investigation and will post in this thread, but the breaker
> popped and any attempt to reset it pops it again. I tried to measure
> amps with my ammeter, it was quite hard to do due to breaker popping
> soon, but the highest measure I got was about 200 amps.
>
> I am going to open up the case now to have a quick look, I will be
> running back and forth. My hope is that it is something simple like
> capacitor shorted, but it easily could be worse (eg motor shorted).
Get an electrician to check your shorts
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Posted by PJ ;-) on August 2, 2006, 10:53 pm
Noon-Air wrote:
> Get an electrician to check your shorts
Absolutely. 200 amps is a lot of punch.
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Posted by Ignoramus2645 on August 2, 2006, 10:56 pm
>
>>I have a central A/C. Around when there was a thunderstorm,
>> electricity flickered about 2-3 times in our house.
>>
>> Now our A/C is not working. The inside is all fine, the fan runs etc.
>>
>> I am doing investigation and will post in this thread, but the breaker
>> popped and any attempt to reset it pops it again. I tried to measure
>> amps with my ammeter, it was quite hard to do due to breaker popping
>> soon, but the highest measure I got was about 200 amps.
>>
>> I am going to open up the case now to have a quick look, I will be
>> running back and forth. My hope is that it is something simple like
>> capacitor shorted, but it easily could be worse (eg motor shorted).
>
> Get an electrician to check your shorts
My shorts are pretty wet by now, from the rain and wet grass.
As far as the wiring, I would like to check out some things by myself
(I am not a big stranger to electricity, built my phase converter blah
blah).
i
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Posted by Ignoramus2645 on August 2, 2006, 10:56 pm
>
>>I have a central A/C. Around when there was a thunderstorm,
>> electricity flickered about 2-3 times in our house.
>>
>> Now our A/C is not working. The inside is all fine, the fan runs etc.
>>
>> I am doing investigation and will post in this thread, but the breaker
>> popped and any attempt to reset it pops it again. I tried to measure
>> amps with my ammeter, it was quite hard to do due to breaker popping
>> soon, but the highest measure I got was about 200 amps.
>>
>> I am going to open up the case now to have a quick look, I will be
>> running back and forth. My hope is that it is something simple like
>> capacitor shorted, but it easily could be worse (eg motor shorted).
>
> Get an electrician to check your shorts
My shorts are pretty wet by now, from the rain and wet grass.
As far as the wiring, I would like to check out some things by myself
(I am not a big stranger to electricity, built my phase converter blah
blah).
i
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