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Posted by daytona° on July 20, 2008, 8:48 pm
Ask the company to send out the 9.00 per hour tech.....not the 7.00 per hr
tech
> Our Carrier home air cond. system has started acting up. It is doing
> the following.
>
> 1. I will run for about and hour or so and stop.
> 2. Service tech comes out and checks freon levels are good and finds
> a switch inside the unit that was blackend. He replaces the switch
> and I fire it up. Service guys ssys do not turn off anyhting and call
> him back it it stops. It runs about 2 hours and stops.
> 3. service guy comes back out and removes cover over compressor and
> finds that the cap over the wires going into the compressor is broken
> from heat. The power is off to the unit. While standing there we
> hear a poping noise and the service guy says it will run now. He says
> the compressor has a thermal switch on it that will cut it off if it
> gets to hot. He plugs the power plug back in and tells me to fire it
> up. I do and the units come back to life. He then takes down the
> serial number from my units and tells me they will have to call
> Carrier tech support and ask them what they think it is.
> Service thinks that there could be a bad filter or something clogged
> on the system and he is not sure. He says they will get with me on
> Monday.
>
> He said that if the compressor is bad it is almost has easy to put a
> new unit in and be done with it. He said a new compressor can cost
> upwards or 800.00 to 900.00 or more.
>
> Needless to say all this is going on Friday and Saturday with temps in
> the 90's. We went and purchased two windows units to atleat keep us
> cool until we get it fixed.
>
> I know this was long winded but I wnated to get as much info out as I
> could.
>
> So based on my problem, does anyone have any ideas on this?
>
> Thanks for your time.
>
> Funny thing was when I was a kid I almost went into this field.
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