Dear Bob,
Bulging and slow fan -- sounds right to me. I hope he labelled the
wires, it could be challenging to get them back on right.

The larger UF side is for the compressor. The smaller side is for the fan.

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"zxcvbob" wrote in message
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Stormin Mormon wrote:

I see that someone else mentioned Johnstone.

How do you know that the cap is bad?


I'm going by what he told me over the phone. A week ago he said the fan
motor was running *really* slow; I told him off-the-top-o-my-head it
sounds like a capacitor run motor, and the cap is shorted out. He took
it apart and the capacitor was bulging on the ends. The took it off and
replaced the the terminals labeled "fan" and "C" with a 7.5uF or 10uF or
somesuch capacitor that he had in his junk box and the fan ran just
fine. He doesn't know what the 35uF side is for, but he wants to
replace the cap with the right one. I have no idea what size A/C unit
this is -- he has one big one (I think it's 18000 BTU with a very high
EER) and a bunch of little 5000 to 7500 BTU units.

Best regards,
Bob