On May 11, 9:07*am, "Stormin Mormon"
wrote:
One of several choices.

1) you have a mystery electrical problem
2) Your breaker is weak
3) The system is overloaded for some reason, and drawing too
high of current.

Did it trip the single breaker to the air handler, or the
double to the outdoor unit?

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."A.Taylor" wrote in message

news I live in Dallas and the weather has been very nice until
today. Today I
decided to use the central A/C, the unit ran without
incident for maybe 20
minutes than the circuit breaker tripped. I reset the
breaker and 10 minutes
later again the circuit breaker tripped (The a/c was cold
before the breaker
tripped and returned cold after I flipped the breaker). What
is going on
here?

I believe I have a heat pump unit (you know the one that
gets cold but not
as cold as someone with a regular unit). Thanks in advance.

Heat pumps cool just as much as a regular ac. Works the same way.
Just reverses in winter to provide heat instead of ac.

A relatively cheap thing you can try is to replace the breaker if that
is within your diy abilities. Turn off the main first of course.
Regular breakers are less than $10 at lowes or home depot. Breakers
do get weak. If you can find the paperwork for the unit you might
confirm that the correct sized breaker is on the circuit. Do not be
tempted to increase the breaker size unless you know that a larger
breaker is called for by the heat pump manufacturer and the circuit
was wired with the correct gauge wire for a larger breaker.

If that's not the problem then something is causing a larger current
draw and needs to be investigated further. Is it a split system with
the air handler inside the house somewhere and an outside unit? Or a
package unit that sits outside and has the house duct work hooked
directly to it?