Those aren’t supposed to be round on top.
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.
Happy cake day.
My HOA would not approve of awnings.
We do have the latest version of low-E Windows. They’re shockingly effective.
I really want to get motorized blinds, and motorized forced air vents, as it sits now, we more or less just leave all the windows covered. Given it’s not as effective from the inside, But even reducing the direct IR mission makes a big difference.
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!
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.
Yeah, I identify with this. Outside is cooler than inside. I would do a motel but 3 dogs is a no-go for places near me. They won’t stay outside either, silly things want to be inside with me.
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.
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.
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
Well there’s your problem right there!
It was! Came right back!
Is that a Dell. Lol.
Rofl, might as well be. Was just hope after I replace it It doesn’t swell again just like dell.
Im sure OP knows what they are doing here but for those that don’t, be careful with capacitors. Especially larger ones like these and bigger as they can hold quite a charge for some time after being unplugged. I personally watched someone shock the shit out of themselves with this exact type of AC capacitors. They were showing someone corrosion on the terminals, bridged the connection and ended up putting his arm through a wall from the jolt.
Yeah, they’re not to be trifled with. If the one I pulled out was actually capable of still holding voltage, it would have been more of a worry.
It’s all normal electrical safety, Trip the breaker, pull the shut off at the disconnect by the condenser outside, take a picture of the wiring on the cap, ground each terminal with a screwdriver, pull the wires off with insulated pliers. Replace the cap, put the wires back where they belong. Reconnect the disconnect, turn the breaker back on, use the thermostat to call for cooling.
It would be good form to replace the contactor If you have one, but they’re a little harder to find and it’s not usually necessary.
mine went out in July in Phoenix, AZ. The 3rd closest Ace had 1 in stock for my unit.
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.
Until you can fix it, open the windows, curtains and blinds at night and shut them during the day.
This was me on Sunday… And then also on Monday after replacing 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.
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.
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!
