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Good Morning- The breaker that is tripping is in the main breaker panel. After reading your initial post checking the break makes perfect sense. Also, I did some additional recon to the unit, which is making me thing that it is the compressor. Here is what I did. I have two wires that...

That's interesting. so you do not think it is associated with the condenser at all?

OK......Here is my issue. When my condenser attempts to kick on, the breaker automatically trips. I have already replaced the contractor, so I am figuring there is either a short to the compressor or maybe the capacitor is bad (I am going to check this tomorrow). Does this process sound...

Thanks for the reply. I have been watching over the past day. I do not get the excessive gas discharge sound or have any icing up. Do you think it could be either an electric or some type of valve issue. What would cause the fan to rapidly turn on and off?

I have a 1 year old condenser (w/ heat pump) that just started acting funny. Sometimes the fan will run sporadically and make an arching sound (i believe this to be the fan motor engaging). However, this only occurs half of the time when it otherwise works just fine. I recently replaced the...