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"muzician21" wrote in message
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Have a Trane central system installed in 88. Model T V030
A140A0 About
a year ago the compressor stopped compressing. I replaced
the old
compressor capacitor and it ran fine until at some point
today. This
morning it was fine, now it's now. Fan is running,
compressor isn't.
Contact switch is working. Light on the circuit board is
lighting.

I noticed the compressor unit is very hot to the touch.
Takes it some
time to get cool after shutting it off. Is that what you'd
expect from
a compressor that had been running?

Any way for me to tell on a DIY basis if the compressor is
fried? The
cap is only a year old, I'm guessing it's a low level
likelihood that
it's gone bad again? The old one had obvious "puking" from
the seam at
the top. No such visible signs on this one.

Thanks.