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Today I have got an overheated compressor. Went ahead and pulled my disconnect. Discharged
the cap. Got a dangling capacitor there got a video on how to secure that. Make that better.
I got ice on the compressor to cool it down and my suspicion is that it is the hard start
kit that has gone out on this. I can see it pretty much discolored. Already discharged
my run cap but since I am here I am going to go ahead and replace the capacitor and
the hard start kit all at the same time. Just loosen the strap up and I usually remove these
just by slipping my screwdriver underneath the post. Slipping the lead off. I find the
yellow one goes to one side and the blue and red on the other side for the capacitor for
my particular units. Mostly just mimicking what is already there. The capacitor is pretty
hot. OK. Out with the old one and in with the new one. Again this one has got blue and
red on one side and yellow on the other side. There we go. Tighten our strap down. And want
to find a good place to clip this on. That'll work there. Hard start kit. Good to go. Now
we'll fire it up. See if it turns on. Compressor is still pretty hot but hopefully all it takes
was the ice on the top to cool it down. We'll see here. Going to turn this on. Get it going
here. Here's plugging in the disconnect back here. Aw yeah. Fired right up. Back in business.
Cool things down again. Now I will just verify that the cold side line gets nice and chilly
all the way. And it is it's way cold already. I'll stay with it for about five minutes.
Make sure it stays nice and cold. I was actually up here on the roof the other day and saw
this unit and felt it and it was ice cold. So I knew today that it probably was my hard
start kit or the capacitor that was just having trouble getting the compressor to start. There's
some other things that could be worked out here. This has a different type of wiring
cover and those wire leads actually could be changed to an angled wire lead more like
the red one so that the cover can be put back on. That's another story for another day.
It is brutally hot today so just getting it going and keeping everything going good for
now. And it's flashing nice and cold. So we're good here.