Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire I hate AC problems

It sure could have been a lot worse. Could have happened in July or August. Temps have been cool enough to hardly even need AC so far.

Living vicariously. 😁

Hanco - I hope she makes it, that’s about the toughest thing a person can do.

Have a great weekend, I’ll be thinking about you whilst I’m under the house trenching out the old waste pipe.

That’s what I’m saying. Ain’t had even a window unit in seven (???) years, maybe more.

‘Course, I live alone…..

Tell me about it. Last June or July my unit went down & repairman was going on vacation. I agreed to wait for him to order parts, let them ship & fix me up in a week to 10 days. For whatever reason, he hung me out to dry. I'd waited over 2 weeks on him before finally calling another company. Long story short, 8 weeks & about 7 grand later we had a new system. Luckily it wasn't a terrible season, hot enough but nothing like the worst of our summers. We were tested & it wasn't terrible come to think of it. Some fans helped with sleep & such.

I'd lived about the first 37 years of my life without A/C at home. But pretty happy to get it back.

You got to have AC here to sleep at night

What are the night time temps right now? Do you have good ceiling ins? Attic well ventilated?

I had to fix my upstairs unit last year, exact same problem as yours. Called several supply houses and they wouldn’t sell me a motor without a freon certification! WTF! One has nothing to do with the other. I ordered it from Grainger, in stock the next day. It lasted 18 years of pretty constant use so I wasn’t too upset. That rectangle box on the edge of the squirrel cage contains a capacitor for the motor. Mine was measured below spec so i changed it out also. I also took that opportunity to check all the capacitors both inside and out. I now have spares for all three zones, hope I don’t need them.

Hanco, my fan went down when the board tried to excite two speeds simultaneously. I was lucky enough to cook the board too. Grainger had my motor in stock, but the board wasn't. Mine went down when it was single digits.....so, I had to build a solder bridge on the board and get creative.

That was 3 years ago and I forgot about it till I saw this.

Had to change one of my circuit boards about two years ago. I built this house with two 3 1/2 ton units, I can and have slept in the living room when I’ve had an AC issue.

It was 92 close to Banco a few weeks ago. It was 90s in December. It was 80s in November. It cooled in January. Its been 80s off and on Feb/ now... One reason I just don't care for TX much.

The thing is AC is mechanical. We should be happy that it was invented rather than complain when we have to fix it. But like everything things including parts just don't last long. Repairs are generally easy. Other than the compressor which takes a bit more work. I prefer not to have to do the compressor.

And we keep a window unit in the bedroom for when the unit goes out. Just clear the dirt dauber clods and turn it on until we can get the AC fixed. Never had a house big enough for 2 outside units. But a backup makes life easy.

Winter is just hanging on up this way.... mountain tops had snow last night around here.
Plenty of rain also.... the dope growers are happier than a pig is Scheiss tho.

People around here are freaking out unless the winters flood out the streams, and we get tons of snow dumped on the mountains. Its not the weather that bothers me, its the dope smoking hippies freaking out, that they want and need plenty of water to grow their dope. Then the other crowd, freaks out that the state will burn down over the summer.. instead of pushing for the forest service to do their damn jobs, instead of letting everything burn for 6 weeks each summer.