Matt and I woke up Sunday and low and behold our AC had quit working. Life sure didn't wait for us since the wedding. Since we have been home the garbage disposal, water heater and ac have been giving us trouble. Oh well, life must go on. I spoke with my friend Kurt and he helped Matt and I figure out what the problem was. And luckily for us Goodle is a great resource and helped us repair the AC unit on our own. Matt and I originally removed the screws so we would manually spin the fan. Since it started we figured it had to be the capacitor, little did we know we were looking at the wrong part when we diagnosed the problem. I found a guy who had a new capacitor for us to buy on a Sunday so we just had to figure out how to get the capacitor out. Once we finally figured out there was a back compartment that had to be removed in order to take the fan off we found this......
The capacitor
We capacitor looked like a can of soad that had been shaken up. So we bought a new one and Matt replaced it. I was so nervous that Matt would shoke himself but he did such an amazing job. So we saved a few hundred dollars as well as learning how to fix it ourselves.
Here is my hubby fixing the AC unit. Woohoo!
Stay tuned. I'm sure we will be replacing something else soon!
we've had that go out a couple of times now....
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