So my AC fan would not run yesterday. Let me give you a little back story. The complete unit is not that old and was replaced with a new furnace, inside coil and outside compressor. Basically a complete new system. And THIS was because the last one put in all new by the previous service didn't cool properly. Plus in the winter the new furnace kept going out.
This last new unit has worked OK except the filter basket set up is not right and it's hard to get a filter in and it falls into the blower making it shut off.
So the fan is not coming on probably because the filter kept hitting the fan. The house quickly gets into the 90's! I called the place yeasterday that put in this unit to have them fix it. The unit is not under warranty. The guy just puts another bracket in to hold the filter. So the filter still has to be smashed to put it in and is barely held away from the fan. But he calls it all good. The fan doesn't run, so he proclaims the fan is bad and needs replaced, but won't have one till tomorrow. I suggest that maybe it is a relay or something but he insists the fan is shot, more on this later.
OK here's where it gets better. He disconnects a wire to the compressor because, "if the compressor runs without the fan it will damage the coil". I don't believe that but I don't want someone unhooking something and leaving it when all that needed to done at most is not turn the AC on.
The house is too hot so I take a look at it. I find the fan will run if connected to constant power. So I hook it up and run it to cool the house down.
Here is the best part. Today I unhook the unit expecting them to come. After sitting around waiting all day for them to call, I call to see if they have the fan in. They tell me, "Yeah but they probably can't get to it today because they called several times and no one answered." In reality the phone has not rung, no calls from them on my caller ID and no messages on my answering machine. What is the sense in them making up a bold-face lie like that when a person would easily know it?
Well the only good part is I hooked the unit back up to where the fan runs constantly and slowly the house will cool down from 90. I'm not sure why it takes so long to cool.
This last new unit has worked OK except the filter basket set up is not right and it's hard to get a filter in and it falls into the blower making it shut off.
So the fan is not coming on probably because the filter kept hitting the fan. The house quickly gets into the 90's! I called the place yeasterday that put in this unit to have them fix it. The unit is not under warranty. The guy just puts another bracket in to hold the filter. So the filter still has to be smashed to put it in and is barely held away from the fan. But he calls it all good. The fan doesn't run, so he proclaims the fan is bad and needs replaced, but won't have one till tomorrow. I suggest that maybe it is a relay or something but he insists the fan is shot, more on this later.
OK here's where it gets better. He disconnects a wire to the compressor because, "if the compressor runs without the fan it will damage the coil". I don't believe that but I don't want someone unhooking something and leaving it when all that needed to done at most is not turn the AC on.
The house is too hot so I take a look at it. I find the fan will run if connected to constant power. So I hook it up and run it to cool the house down.
Here is the best part. Today I unhook the unit expecting them to come. After sitting around waiting all day for them to call, I call to see if they have the fan in. They tell me, "Yeah but they probably can't get to it today because they called several times and no one answered." In reality the phone has not rung, no calls from them on my caller ID and no messages on my answering machine. What is the sense in them making up a bold-face lie like that when a person would easily know it?
Well the only good part is I hooked the unit back up to where the fan runs constantly and slowly the house will cool down from 90. I'm not sure why it takes so long to cool.
