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You guys have been so helpful about machines, and I also diagnosed my folks
V drop problem by reading the reads here. Now, I have an urgent situation... My folks cooler here went bad. All the repair guys came out and replaced all the parts. Motors, belts, pulleys, thermostats, etc. It was a Master Kool. Anyway, nothing worked, and they called my incompetent nephew. (they didn't call me because I advised them to get an electrician out months ago, and they called me nuts). Anyway, they called me yesterday. After asking a few questions, I found out that their lights dim when any major appliance came on. Recalling what I read here recently, I suspected a faulty neutral. They called PG and E. He showed up about an hour ago. I explained the situation, and we measured the voltage across the service entrance. Sure enough, one leg read 130, and the other 110. This should explain why the cooler motor was laboring to come on (and sometimes wouldn't). There is a splice somewhere under the house with the neutral wire (some other dumb ass did this, I think), and I will replace it tomorrow. \ Now my REAL question. My nephew ripped out all the low volt thermostat wires, and also the guts to the panel to the relay panel attached to the cooler. So what I've got to do is run a whole new system. Motor, pump, all work fine wired hard. He bought a new thermostat that's not low voltage. I've got to install it somewhere, run the circuit (it calls for black and neutral IN, and has 6 OUTS. Hi fan, low fan, pump only, hi cool, low cool, and green). I've done this before, but my other job had a terminal board attached to the cooler to attach all these wires. Now (because of idiot nephew) there is nothing but an empty weather proof case attached. QUESTION: Do I buy a terminal for the cooler (where and what?), or do I attach all the leads from the new thermostat to the pump and motor ( 2 speed, I know which is which). I COULD do this, but can't figure out where the neutral would come from for the pump and motor WITHOUT a terminal box. Do I run a pigtail for the pump and motor directly to the nuetral bus bar? And then wire the rest as the directions say (I already have a 2+1 romex (#12) to the cooler now, directly from the breaker box) I know this is long, but wanted to explain what I'm up against. It will be over 100F tomorrow and I NEED to do this fast and right. Any help would be greatly appreciated. |
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