Pixguy
Super Member
First, i am a fairly handy homeowner i had to be as im no Brad Pitt. I roughed the new home and my brother, a licensed elec tied in the panel. Bear with my explanation.
We have a home with 2 split systems, 1 is 3 ton EMI I believe and the MB is 1.5 Bryant due to it being upstairs.
The two vertical standing condensers are next to each other outside of course and I always made sure that the leaves are cleared from behind so that it would breath properly and covered for the off season. 3 weeks ago the small unit stopped working during the night. Blowing indoors but nothing out except for an occasional buzzing. I pulled the cover off (while shutoff was pulled) and noticed that the inside of the coils were a good 1/8 thick of dust. Hmmm, why inside and not out?
While plugging in breaker bar(?) it starting to hum and the fan did not blow so I gave it a light push CCW and it started working but I could tell the condenser was not kicking on. But the fan was blowing towards the house instead of the obvious direction(to a novice). I stopped it, pushed the fan the other direction (CW) and it worked that way too.
Finally the plumber who installed it came, I told him the issues including my fan test and he came back a few days later with a new capacitor. All seems fine but I noticed today that the fan is still running CW and it is sucking air in towards the house. Is that correct? shouldn't the fan be pulling the air from the rear through the coils and away from the house, like the other unit does? Thanks for your time.
We have a home with 2 split systems, 1 is 3 ton EMI I believe and the MB is 1.5 Bryant due to it being upstairs.
The two vertical standing condensers are next to each other outside of course and I always made sure that the leaves are cleared from behind so that it would breath properly and covered for the off season. 3 weeks ago the small unit stopped working during the night. Blowing indoors but nothing out except for an occasional buzzing. I pulled the cover off (while shutoff was pulled) and noticed that the inside of the coils were a good 1/8 thick of dust. Hmmm, why inside and not out?
While plugging in breaker bar(?) it starting to hum and the fan did not blow so I gave it a light push CCW and it started working but I could tell the condenser was not kicking on. But the fan was blowing towards the house instead of the obvious direction(to a novice). I stopped it, pushed the fan the other direction (CW) and it worked that way too.
Finally the plumber who installed it came, I told him the issues including my fan test and he came back a few days later with a new capacitor. All seems fine but I noticed today that the fan is still running CW and it is sucking air in towards the house. Is that correct? shouldn't the fan be pulling the air from the rear through the coils and away from the house, like the other unit does? Thanks for your time.