I have a 5yr goodman 3.5 that last night was making noises, I went to the outside unit and the fan was not working. I turned the unit off for the night and went out this morning and the wires that connect to the capacitor were melted(burnt). I will go tomorrow and get a new capacitor but my question is would it be the capacitor that caused this?

thank you,,

HeyJoe

It could, is a cheap to replace capacitor, and easy test. Replace bad wires and connections. All need to be tight.

Thanks for the reply. I will give it a shot tomorrow

HeyJoe

If the capacitor fried, the motor could have fried too. Capacitor took out motor syndrome.

Well after replacing the capacitor and re-wiring the burnt wires from the capacitor all seems to be ok. I really don't know how the capacitor burnt the way it did and I didn't find any bad or loose connections in the unit. I have seen other capacitors bubble or swell, but I have never seen were all the wires burn off the top of capacitor....I will keep an eye on it, I thank you for your time reading this and your inputs

HeyJoe