Originally Posted by
Perianne
We have been painting our house. We came in from the heat on Wednesday night....and the house was warm inside. I checked the air filter and it was dirty. I changed the air filter and then decided to go back outside and see if the air conditioner thingy outside was running. It was not. I thought maybe the fan motor was stuck or something. So I stuck a stick down in it to see if it would turn. It turned freely. I took the thing off and felt of the fan motor. It was so hot that I could hardly touch it. So, I figured the motor was shorted and was bad.
I went to Grainger the next day and ordered a new fan motor. I also bought a new fan blade as I couldn't get the old one off the motor.
The motor came in on Friday morning and I put it on and now we have air conditioning.
I know that is not a big thing to you guys who work on stuff all the time, but it was the first time I have ever fixed anything involving air conditioning. I am proud of myself!
Good girl!
Remember to turn off the breaker for any electrical appliances like that before you start digging around inside... getting zapped isn't much fun.
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