bpatterson007
May 20, 2008, 03:31 PM
Hi, tried browsing around for an answer think I might have found one (leaning capacitor), but I'd like some more input from experts.
My grandparents have been in a mobile home for a long time on a farm, and their AC is just now starting to act up. They don't have a lot of money either and I'm fairly inclined with fixing things. Problem is I cannot find a schematic, book, manual, NOTHING, on this AC unit.
It's a brand Nordyne, model is msc36e. I Google it and find ONE result from a lady wanting the schematic also... so anyway.
The problem is the air feels fairly cold, but the fan will not start on it. The fan will just make this low buzz sound when I turn it on. However the fan will run like a champ once I give it a little spin with a paint stirrer. It spins very smoothly and freely when it's off and I manually spin it.
I took apart the top of the AC, it's an outdoor unit, turned off all power, and gave it a good cleaning. It had a lot of grass, leaves, etc, everywhere.
I can't make heads or tails of what's inside, I'm not really keen on AC capacitors. I'm assumming they look like rectangles, rounded off on the sides, with connectors at the top. Problem is there's 3 of them on there.
The smallest one has a brown wire coming from the fan motor, to the capacitor, and another brown wire from it's other contact running back into the capacitor.
The middle size one has wires going to the blower, and one wire running to the large capacitor. The large capacitor has wires going to the condenser.
I believe these are all 3 capacitors. Anyway...
What do I do?
PS I worked on about $20 million worth of military communications systems. I can handle those I can handle this I'm sure... but I have nothing to go off for reference material. So avoiding having a repair guy come out would be ideal (unless to recharge coolant, don't think I can do that myself with none of the equipment)
My grandparents have been in a mobile home for a long time on a farm, and their AC is just now starting to act up. They don't have a lot of money either and I'm fairly inclined with fixing things. Problem is I cannot find a schematic, book, manual, NOTHING, on this AC unit.
It's a brand Nordyne, model is msc36e. I Google it and find ONE result from a lady wanting the schematic also... so anyway.
The problem is the air feels fairly cold, but the fan will not start on it. The fan will just make this low buzz sound when I turn it on. However the fan will run like a champ once I give it a little spin with a paint stirrer. It spins very smoothly and freely when it's off and I manually spin it.
I took apart the top of the AC, it's an outdoor unit, turned off all power, and gave it a good cleaning. It had a lot of grass, leaves, etc, everywhere.
I can't make heads or tails of what's inside, I'm not really keen on AC capacitors. I'm assumming they look like rectangles, rounded off on the sides, with connectors at the top. Problem is there's 3 of them on there.
The smallest one has a brown wire coming from the fan motor, to the capacitor, and another brown wire from it's other contact running back into the capacitor.
The middle size one has wires going to the blower, and one wire running to the large capacitor. The large capacitor has wires going to the condenser.
I believe these are all 3 capacitors. Anyway...
What do I do?
PS I worked on about $20 million worth of military communications systems. I can handle those I can handle this I'm sure... but I have nothing to go off for reference material. So avoiding having a repair guy come out would be ideal (unless to recharge coolant, don't think I can do that myself with none of the equipment)