I'm not sure any brand is good, in this modern era. I've
heard some brands have a higher failure rate. Going to a
higher voltage rating may help. Hope you bought a spare.

Yes, it's fun to "test" repair guys like that. I'd promptly
find a bad cap, for sure. Years ago, I saw a TV news sting,
they did find several techs who did damage to make more
items to sell up.

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"muzician21" wrote in message
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On Jun 24, 4:40 pm, "Stormin Mormon"
wrote:
You SURE you aren't going to pay a pro large ammounts of
money to come out and charge you for a service call?


Actually part of me is half-tempted to call out a tech with
the bad
cap in place and see if he makes an honest assessment or
gives me a
load of crap but I'm too leery of someone deliberately
damaging the
unit to sell me on a new one. Too many horror stories about
that kind
of thing happening. Of course, if they did give it to me
straight I'd
know they were an honest company I could go to if ever need
be.

But it does raise a question - do you know of any
dysfunctionality
with the a/c system that could cause a cap to go bad
prematurely or is
it likely just manuf defect? The guy at the parts house said
current
fluctuations can be hard on caps and Florida is famous for
this. It
was his assertion that once upon a time similar value caps
were much
larger and more bulletproof. The original factory cap lasted
over 20
years, though unknown how long it had been in diminished
condition -
apparently they'll continue to work up to a certain
threshold? The
brand on this one is BestTech. Is there a brand you prefer?