Those aren’t supposed to be round on top.
Is that a Dell. Lol.
Everyone should get awnings instead of bruteforcing the heat away. The insulation in your walls works both ways: it doesn’t let heat out in the winter and inside in the summer. However, the sun’s radiation passes through windows without much holding it back (without awnings or external curtains) and directly heats your home from the inside. So your house is basically a greenhouse when there’s nothing covering your windows.
Have you tried unplugging it and plugging it back in?
Looking at the power draw from 8am to 1pm, it did that itself every 5 minutes.
replaced the cap, it’s chill now.
That’s pretty cool.
Well there’s your problem right there!
It was! Came right back!
For an european that sounds unbearable, but i have to translate to celcius
At 98.6 it would be the same temperature in my anus as it is in my air.
About 37
Yep, if your condenser unit outside just won’t turn on it’s always a good idea to check this capacitor. I think it was just last year that I replaced the one in my unit installed in 2015. I went through a few capacitors with the ancient system before that!
mine went out in July in Phoenix, AZ. The 3rd closest Ace had 1 in stock for my unit.
I’ve seen so many HVAC repair trucks on the roads this week.
As a refrigeration/HVAC guy, the past couple months have been hell. Most of our crew has been working over 60 hours a week for two months straight and we still aren’t even close to keeping up. We’re having to heavily triage calls. Hell, I just finally got dispatched to a prison the other day where aparently a whole cell block had been mostly without AC for an entire week. Normally a call like that would get someone dispatched same day but we just don’t have the people. I work with guys that have been doing this for decades and even they say that the current volume of tickets is unprecedented.
When you go upstairs do you constantly hear “Give Me Just One Night” or something in the background?
I do but unfortunately the announcer just keeps talking right up to the post.
I feel so dumb sitting here thinking you were talking about the connections. Like yeah they’re supposed to be round for ease of insertion. But also could tell something was off cause they usually point in parallel directions. Then I noticed the black dome they are attached to.
Please bring this to a proper site for disposal, that thing is like a flaming poison bomb at this point.
It probably just swelled when it got hot now that it’s cooled down it’s probably in a little bit of a vacuum state.
Hopefully, but is it really worth the risk?
Just a couple grams of DMF in there no big deal it’ll put some hair on your chest
Who needs a liver anyways!
This is me, today. House is 88 F. Service won’t arrive until Monday.
Last year mine conked out during a 100+° day. I tried everything! I’m talking cold(ground was still hot so it was actually a cool shower) then frozen water bottles in my pits, crotch, and neck. I ended up going to a cheap motel for the night and discover my door knob was actually hotter inside than out.
My 20 year old AC breaks once a year, at this point it’s the ship of theseus. One year it’s the capacitor on condensor, then condensor fan motor, then fan motor that circulates air instead, then circuit board that controls all HVAC functions, then capacitor for circulation fan. Every year, when the heat hits strong, something breaks, I have become proficient in diagnosting HVAC system at this point.
If you’re going through multiple condensers a decade you need a new air conditioner. From a different manufacturer operating on a different continent.
We don’t replace the whole thing, only the part that broke, and again, this system is 20+ years old
A quick tip if you want to minimize the number of repairs. If a motor dies, replace all the start components as well. The old ones might be fully functional and even test good but when the motor quit it likely weakened them. Similarly, if one start component fails then just replace all of them for the same reason. A failing start cap or run cap can really beat up the start relay so even if it works temporarily, it will often fail later. Also if you notice that you keep having to replace start components for a particular motor then that motorcis starting to fail. We see that all the time with compressors in particular. A hard start kit can help in that case but it shouldn’t be considered a fix.
This was me on Sunday… And then also on Monday after relacing the cap and then realizing that the fan motor was janky (which might be what caused the cap to fail)
realizing that the fan motor was janky (which might be what caused the cap to fail)
Yep, that is often the case. I’m a hvac/refrigeration tech and I’d say about 20% of the time I have to replace start components, it’s because the motor in question is starting to fail.
Until you can fix it, open the windows, curtains and blinds at night and shut them during the day.
Your upstairs must be literally boiling.
Or damn near freezing
After replacing the capacitor I set the thermostat to zero Kelvin
Only a Sith deals in absolute zeros!
It’s not a fix an HVAC tech would tell you how to do.
Nah, “freedom” units there’s a whole other human’s worth of temperature before it actually boils.
