"Lloyd E. Sponenburgh" wrote in message
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Yeh - and do you know what a DUAL CAP IS ?????

Yep, and many units have separate condensor and compressor caps, in case
your vast experience hasn't exposed you to that, yet. Many PSC air-over
condensor fans have cap pigtails so short you can't get them back into the
weather enclosure, anyway... you have to hang the cap inside the condensor
area, or scab wiring onto them to get back home.

LLoyd



Well.......hell......


Looks like Paul got ya here, since Goodman uses a dual cap, meaning, only
one in the unit. On both a heat pump and a straight split, it sits right in
the same place, over on teh left side of the access panel, with one 5/16s
screw holding a band around it to keep it in place. The cap isnt a start cap
for the fan motor, but you knew that, altho a few in here didnt.

Now, for clarification since its obvious that a few wanted to jump in with
both feet and cant seem to comprehend the entire thread...

Stormin Moron made a comment, replace both. What he MEANS is replace both
the fan motor AND the cap. What he was THINKING was that the unit had a sep
5-370 for the fan motor, when it would not. Therefore, his comment about
things being cheap kinda went away real fast, altho some took it the wrong
way and totally ignored the fact that he wasnt talking about replacing BOTH
caps, even though there is only one, but he didnt know that, but had to go
on and speak about it anyway.

OR

He really DID mean to replace both caps. He did state that compressor caps
can go bad too, (gee ****ing willikers buckwheat!! REally??)
In THAT case, he means to replace both caps. Gee..since there is only one in
the unit, and its a dual cap, logic dictates that you would be doing that
anyway. Unless, of course, you were going to run a jumper from the C
terminal over to a new single cap and then simply transfer over the leads
from the FAN term to the new cap, but why would you do that, when thats not
a true repair, but a trashy looking bandaide?

Either way, the bashing going on from both sides in this case looks silly.
Everyone with half a brain can see that Stormy Moron is nothing but a
wannabe that thinks hes got a clue.
Prob got good intentions, but the road to hell is paved with them.