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I dont see any factory smoke. I must be gone already.

Bad capacitor,
Easily fixed.
Most people would just junk the whole thing.
If I'd had a dollar for every time I've changed a capacitor in any A/C unit, I'd have a good pile of money.
That and fan motors in the evaporator unit.
Cool pic, Adam!.
You must have hit the button at the right moment.

"...still works not bad when it's not spewing smoke and fire"

Probably could be said for an awful lot of people...

Mike (mamills)

[This message has been edited by mamills (edited 09-06-2006).]

Hey all, glad you liked the pictures.. If I ever have the oppertunity do get more like that I will do so and post them on here...

Napervillesoundtech / Trumpy: I absolutely HATE chucking something if I know I have a chance at fixing it, if its not worth repairing I will raid any good parts out of it first, thats why I just happened to have two capacitors kicking around to replace that one. A little " rewiring" and modification to make them fit, and it works good as new.
To be honest I had to find the value I needed for the compressor by "trial and error"...
Couldn't find any numbers anywhere. 35Mfd started the compressor but the current draw on the compressor was way high, a 24 Mfd brought it back to about 6A where I think its supposed to be, starts and runs fine, and the voltage rating of the cap (400V) is sufficient for what I measured with it running (380V MAX)

Found the value for the fan motor capacitor with the multimeter, that section of the original capacitor was still intact. a 5 Mfd @400V worked out just fine

A.D

Ya know what this is-- it's an old-school heat pump! it magically senses when it's too cold, and shorts itself to add heat to the room. Or not...