Carrier A/C units

Thanks to a failure I have one in my basement. but if yours blows.. Carefully mark all leads as to which terminal they come off of and take the original to an Electric Motor shop.. they will have one locally, no waiting, (You might end up with two) if you get two the shop owner will tell you which pair goes to which pair of wires based on designs on the cap.

Want to thank you all for your help. Does anyone have a link to a replacement capacitor for the unit I like to carry a spare...

The two units are completely independent of each other. One breaking won't affect the other.
I would suspect parts would be available for quite a while. When a company goes out of business they don't load up the parts inventory and send it to the landfill.

First.. Next time you pull the covers for cleaning take a look at the pipes coming out of the compressor.. The form a "U" shaped vibration trap.

Now on some I have seen these pipes have a foam like stuff that keeps them from rubbing against each other... On mine they did not, and they rubbed. If yours are rubbing spread them apart so they do not touch.

Now to your question: Starting caps (The one Carrier used was for both the blower and the compressor) are off the shelf at a repair house. You may need to replace one 4 Terminal with two 2 Terminal units, but this is NOT a problem.

The Motor, though is.. Blower motor is very expensive. Both Garner adn some other companies make a lower cost substitute, Works just fine. I have one in my basement.. CAUTION some of them need librication from time to time, the OEM is sealed bearing.

ENTIRE TOP UNIT: If the compressor goes, or the coils. it is often cheaper to repalce the ENTIRE TOP UNIT than to fix it.

Two companies make drop on top units that repalce the DCarrier, One I think is Coleman.. the other is Advewnt Air (I have the latter and do not recommend it, made in China, and one of these days I'll re-work parts of it to make service easier).

NOTE: To install the Advent Air you need someone who works on ELECTRONICS to show you one step.. Thankfully when we did mine we had one (me) the service techinican had no idea how to install a jack till i showed him.

I have great luck by entering the correct part number into google search followed by the word AMAZON...

I also search in both WEB mode and IMAGE mode as sometimes the photo shown is also very helpful identify the right part. When you see what you are looking for the use mouse clicks to bring up the additional info...

Roy Ken

There's still an ample supply of many Carrier parts available online. Owner's, Parts, and Service manuals are also available for download. I recently replaced the filters on mine and got an aftermarket remote control from SolRus via Amazon.

Googling the actual part number by putting in something like "Carrier xxxxxx" usually yields multiple hits from various vendors.

You can buy any brand capacitor and it will work with whatever motor you are using, you just need to match the MFD rating on the replacement with the factory capacity.

You can buy a replacement fan motor, compressor, and perhaps other parts. Circuit boards should be around for a few years. Look at your local TransCold or truck air refrigerator supply house for the parts for your A/C. Carrier is still making mobile air conditioners and refrigerators, just not finding the RV market as profitable as the trucking industry.

Good luck,

Fred.