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badhrted
May 19, 2008, 12:50 PM
My goodman 5 ton heatpump / a/c compressor when reaches desired temp makes a heavy (loud) buzzing until I lower stat To demand more cooling or turn it off. Once it is off for 30 secs I can turn on it is fine. The noise is intermittent it doesn't do it every cycle.!

hvac1000
May 19, 2008, 03:13 PM
Where is the loud buzzing coming from?

KISS
May 19, 2008, 05:04 PM
It almost sounds like a contactor chattering. When it does that push down heavily with in insulated object on the contacts in the contactor to the compressor.

badhrted
May 19, 2008, 06:06 PM
The noise is coming from the heatpump/a/c unit outside it is more like as if at the point of the noise the stat is satisfied but not shutting down.

KISS
May 19, 2008, 06:20 PM
Yea, relay chatter. Could be stat. Could be contactor. Could be loose wiring.

badhrted
May 19, 2008, 06:43 PM
Thanks, just out of curiosity could it also be the reversing valve not holding for some reason?