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AC tripped at main breaker.....please advise
The outside compresser should keep the indoor coil cold, and if it wasn't
doing that, there's no damage done by blowing air across warm coil and circulating it through your house. It could be bad to refrigerate the coil and not blow air across it -- it might "freeze" and break. Just ask your installer why the outdoor unit would be buzzing while the indoor unit worked -- why they are not wired to know that the other is down (like I think mine is). "Kerry" wrote in message om... I am hoping you can all help me. Here is the story.... We live in a 1.5 year old house. Our AC coils our in our atic, then we have the blower unit thing outdoors (sorry I don't know the real names of these things). We were away for the weekend and left the AC set at 85 degrees. It was a hot weekend and the outside temp got up over 100 (probably around 104). Anyway, when we returned home last night, our house was a very warm 87 degrees. The fan was blowing but no cold air was coming out. So I went outside and the outdoor portion of the AC unit was not on. I put my ear up to it and could hear a faint electical buzz. So it was getting power. Then I passed the condensation drain. The ground was wet, so the AC had worked properly at least sometime in the weekend. My next step was to go to the main breaker panel. Sure enough, the AC was tripped. I reset and it is working fine so far today. A few questions.... 1) What does the breaker control? The fan in the house was still running and the unit outside still seemed to have power (since I could hear the slight buzz). Does the breaker just control the coils? 2) What can cause the breaker to trip? And is that mean something really bad is wrong? 3) The fact that it tripped concerns me. Is this something that happens sometimes in really hot weather or is it more likely a problem with my AC? 4) I have no idea how long the fan in my house had been running before I came home. My guess is that it had been running for a long time (many hours if not a whole day) trying to cool the house without luck. Was that really bad for it? We let it rest overnight before we tried it this morning. Thanks all for the help. Out house is still under warranty, but since it hasn't tripped again, I am not sure what to do. Please advise. Kerry |
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