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Try $250 for a capacitor here in Texas - they know you can’t afford to take a few days to shop around due to the heat. What I’ve found works over the years: get
by bluedevil2k 2y ago
Try $250 for a capacitor here in Texas - they know you can’t afford to take a few days to shop around due to the heat. What I’ve found works over the years: get the phone number of a few HVAC guys as you encounter them and offer them $50 to come when you need them. They’ll never pull the “you should cal l my employer” because most are contractors who need to buy their own equipment.
- gh02t 2y agoI had a bad capacitor this past summer and ended up having to drive over an hour because the only place in town that would sell me a capacitor was Grainger on the opposite end of [moderately large town]. Everywhere else I called declined to sell me one for "safety reasons". Several did offer to send a tech out to do it for me...
- sidewndr46 2y agoThis is why you call a supply house and not an HVAC company. As long as you aren't trying to buy refrigerant they really don't care.
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- fshbbdssbbgdd 2y agoWhen my AC broke on the weekend, I got a capacitor from Amazon that arrived next day.
- gh02t 2y agoUnfortunately Amazon in my area at the time had been taking a week or more for any deliveries. It was really annoying.
- mmmlinux 2y agoIf they have techs they don't want to sell you parts, they want to sell you service. Granger sells parts. Would you call up restaurants trying to buy a raw potato?
- gh02t 2y agoI actually mostly called up HVAC supply places but they wouldn't sell me a cap and offered to refer me to one of their "preferred" service providers. Maybe it's some backdoor colluding in my area, who knows, but yeah I was really surprised they wouldn't. I think I called 3-4 before someone told me Grainger sells 'em.
- bigfatkitten 2y agoIt's pretty common for outfits like that to be "trade only" and not do retail sales at all. Electrical wholesalers are often the same.
- lotsofpulp 2y ago> What I’ve found works over the years: Going to Ferguson.com and ordering a replacement capacitor to have on hand for $30 works even better. It’s literally just turning off the power to the compressor, using a screwdriver to open the panel, unplugging the old capacitor, and plugging a new one in.
- cma 2y agoSeems like you skipped the discharge step..
- HeyLaughingBoy 2y agoPoint taken, but pretty good chance that a blown cap isn't too great at holding a charge anymore.
- cma 2y agoAnd if the capacitor wasn't blown but it was instead a seized motor or something?
- HeyLaughingBoy 2y agoThen why are you replacing the cap?
- defrost 2y agoGeneral debugging of hardware might lead to that. Regardless .. discharge the cap, blown or not. Clear the chamber, even if you removed the magazine and checked it yesterday. etc. The general principles of health and safety are intended to be largely overkill and mostly not strictly required, they're in place for that one time that kills or injures.
- lazide 2y agoJust don’t lick it haha