95 degrees and the A/C went out...
Why do A/C units seem to always go out late in the afternoon or on weekends or holidays when parts stores are closed?
This time I thought I was ready. I purchased an extra capacitor the last time it burnt out 3 years ago. So I took the cover off the unit and sure enough there was a burnt wire on the capacitor so I got my extra one out of the cabinet and found that it was the wrong one for the unit. The numbers were right on the box but the capacitor was not the right one. Damn! All the parts stores were closed so we spent the evening sitting next to fans blowing hot air on us.
When we went to bed I opened the windows in the bedroom and turned on the ceiling fan and it was still like a Turkish bath house.
Got up early this morning and went to the parts place and bought a couple more capacitors and this time I took them out of the box and checked the numbers. I went home replaced the burnt terminal on the wire, installed the new capacitor and now I'm sitting here in my recliner with my laser thermometer and the temperature is reading 73.5 degrees at the ceiling and 72 where I'm sitting. Ah, life is good again.
This time I thought I was ready. I purchased an extra capacitor the last time it burnt out 3 years ago. So I took the cover off the unit and sure enough there was a burnt wire on the capacitor so I got my extra one out of the cabinet and found that it was the wrong one for the unit. The numbers were right on the box but the capacitor was not the right one. Damn! All the parts stores were closed so we spent the evening sitting next to fans blowing hot air on us.
When we went to bed I opened the windows in the bedroom and turned on the ceiling fan and it was still like a Turkish bath house.Got up early this morning and went to the parts place and bought a couple more capacitors and this time I took them out of the box and checked the numbers. I went home replaced the burnt terminal on the wire, installed the new capacitor and now I'm sitting here in my recliner with my laser thermometer and the temperature is reading 73.5 degrees at the ceiling and 72 where I'm sitting. Ah, life is good again.
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That is comfortable.
I usually wear fleece sweats all year inside as the 'other half' sets the thermostat at 66 degrees night time and about 68 daytime. That is a bit cool for me when sitting reading/watching TV unless moving around a lot.
She takes a lot of Rx for her various ailments and believe that is why she is hot all the time. Anything above 70 has her sweating.0 -
OK KOOL...best thing i did 3 years ago //a 95% efficient heat and bigger AC combo.......also best thing years earlier was all new windows 0 -
Quick&Dead wrote:That is comfortable.
I usually wear fleece sweats all year inside as the 'other half' sets the thermostat at 66 degrees night time and about 68 daytime. That is a bit cool for me when sitting reading/watching TV unless moving around a lot.
She takes a lot of Rx for her various ailments and believe that is why she is hot all the time. Anything above 70 has her sweating.
I thought about running it on down to about 65 degrees but I'm sitting here in my undershorts and it's a bit breezy right now.
Sorry about your wife. I know how she feels about the meds making her sweat. I take a couple of meds that make me sweat too but anything below 72 degrees and my wife breaks out her winter coat.0 -
A friend worked in the A.C. shop where we worked. He would get a call to one of the control rooms that the AC wasn?t working. When he got there, one woman operator would be covered up with a blanket and another would be fanning herself.
Thankless job.0 -
It has happened several times this year but that's because I have a box on my air conditioner that lets the electric company turn it off. They give me a very nice discount on my electric service in return. I was about 45 years old before I ever had an air conditioner in my house and almost that old before I had one in a car. 95 degrees & you are crying. It gets well over 100 here but the humidity is usually low. The times it goes out are usually from 4 to 8 PM. My electric bill has never been over $80 & with some rebates it has been less than zero. The people trying to sell me solar panels leave pretty quickly when I tell them that. 0 -
gruntled2 wrote:It gets well over 100 here but the humidity is usually low.
That is the key right there. Low humidity, your sweat system actually works and can keep you cool. Heck, you could set up a swamp cooler with a fan and a wet towel and be even more comfortable.
Here in the south east, we run at 60-80% humidity all year... and when it is 90 degrees out and 70% humidity, your sweat just builds up and doesn't evaporate. A breeze makes things tolerable, but here in the middle of N Florida 80 miles from either coast there isn't much wind during the worst of the year. Of course, the fun times are when it is 90 out, 70% humidity, and we get a 10 minute drizzle of rain. Not enough to cool things off - just enough to really steam up from the pavement and crank the humidity even higher.0 -
gruntled2 wrote:95 degrees & you are crying. It gets well over 100 here but the humidity is usually low.
No crying here just pissed off that it has to do it at the worst of times. You don't know what heat is until you've been in weeks on end of 100 degree temperatures with 90% + humidity. We're having a cooler than normal summer here but 95 degrees with high humidity is still pretty hot in a two story house in the late afternoon sun.0 -
AC quit working in our house in town so had local come and replace variable speed motor in attic mounted unit....$800...worked ok for about 3 months then quit again ...same local crew went and said cooling coil in it was bad...OK...replaced that...then wife goes in a few days later and water is dripping down from kitchen ceiling and running down from several places across the living room ceiling.....hot line call and about 30 minutes later the local guy comes in and says "OH S--T".....seems they put new coil in and did NOT open drain line from the condensation pan to drain pipe??????? so it overflowed and ran around thru the ceiling studs....he fixed the drain mistake......we got a friend to pull out the soaked insulation in the attic and set up large fans up and down and hired a pro carpenter to come in and repair ceilings ..they are drying till it is OK to repaint....then we get a $1300 bill from the ac repair place..?????? this is in a totally front to back top to bottom refurbished home with all new everything......i think when we get bill for the wet repairs we will deduct them from the AC bill and see what happens >>>>>>>> 0
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