Recent content by rstokes28

Great. I'll try this. Had a good cool night last night in the Phoenix heat and everything is working well. Thanks!

What would be the best method and tool to check that difference?

I found a new fan motor with the same specifications for $111.00 and it got it installed with no problems. It came with its own capacitor which wasn't an issue. The home seems to be cooling at near double the rate it was before the failure. Thanks again for the help. -:)

All cleaned up and now I'm hunting for the fan motor which I expect to be the end of this drama and back to some good AC in the Phoenix summer. Thank you for the good advice.

Thanks Housedoctor57. I'm assuming along with the cleaning that the fan motor also e replaced, just to be sure. Best

In addition to fan not turning unless I help it a little, when the system is one it's taking a long time to cool. Could this be an issue where it's been losing Puron steadily and has been stressing the components?

Hi, The fan on the outside unit, a Carrier 38EZA060310 Model, stopped turning yesterday. I took out the capacitor and got it tested and it was bad and replaced it. The unit worked fine for the afternoon while it was cooling the house. After it was off a while and came back on the fan wouldn't...