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Good news is I have central AC.
Bad news is it broke down Thursday.
I was able to scramble up a new condenser cooling fan and capacitors before they were all gone yesterday morning.
AC parts store was packed. And people were grumpy!
The old motor was a three wire. And the new one is a seven wire.
So it took a little rewiring. And I Had to give the new motor it's own stand alone capacitor.
I gave the compressor motor a new capacitor as well. As they shared one before.
But less than $200 and it was up and running as of about noon yesterday.
Very important. And since I had the fan out I hosed off all the lint and other crud from the inside. Blowing it out and off the cooling fins.
There was a ton of crap!
Poor thing should dissipate heat much better now.
Bad news is it broke down Thursday.
I was able to scramble up a new condenser cooling fan and capacitors before they were all gone yesterday morning.
AC parts store was packed. And people were grumpy!
The old motor was a three wire. And the new one is a seven wire.
So it took a little rewiring. And I Had to give the new motor it's own stand alone capacitor.
I gave the compressor motor a new capacitor as well. As they shared one before.
But less than $200 and it was up and running as of about noon yesterday.
Very important. And since I had the fan out I hosed off all the lint and other crud from the inside. Blowing it out and off the cooling fins.
There was a ton of crap!
Poor thing should dissipate heat much better now.
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