AC Troubles - Hard Start cap? Something else?
Okay guys, new member, long time lurker. The missus and I finally bought ourselves a 5er, a 2004 Terry Quantum Ax6. It's huge and we have had it out a couple times. Got a great deal on it and we lo...
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...and I think I mis-identified some of the parts, and I believe this to be accurate now:
1) Does the Tall Gray one, have two clusters of terminals, with a divider between like the Short Gray one? If so, Tall Gray is your Compressor Run Capacitor. The uF value sounds high, and when I say that, I'm working from recall, not a parts list.
1) EDIT - I must've looked at the same parts list and other sources you did, and 60 uF for Compressor and 7.5 uF for Fan seems to be correct. If you're looking to test capacitors by substituting "known good" (presumably new) caps, you can get such from appliance repair parts shops as well as eBay and Amazon. I've noticed your A/C series uses a Panasonic Compressor. It may be different enough from others, to call for a different uF capacitor.
2) The Short Gray one is the Fan Run Capacitor, and the 7.5 uF you mentioned sounds about right.
2) EDIT - 7.5 IS right
3) Start Assist Capacitor is used only with Compressor. You should find it connects across the Tall Gray one - Those Start Cap's are almost always plastic. Most of the A/C's I've tinkered with do not have Start Assist, so I'm not sure about testing them. I believe some of them have a small resistor across, and not sure that would allow testing with a meter.
Have you tried your generators with a good parallel kit yet? You may be doing all this for nothing.
1) Does the Tall Gray one, have two clusters of terminals, with a divider between like the Short Gray one? If so, Tall Gray is your Compressor Run Capacitor. The uF value sounds high, and when I say that, I'm working from recall, not a parts list.
1) EDIT - I must've looked at the same parts list and other sources you did, and 60 uF for Compressor and 7.5 uF for Fan seems to be correct. If you're looking to test capacitors by substituting "known good" (presumably new) caps, you can get such from appliance repair parts shops as well as eBay and Amazon. I've noticed your A/C series uses a Panasonic Compressor. It may be different enough from others, to call for a different uF capacitor.
2) The Short Gray one is the Fan Run Capacitor, and the 7.5 uF you mentioned sounds about right.
2) EDIT - 7.5 IS right
3) Start Assist Capacitor is used only with Compressor. You should find it connects across the Tall Gray one - Those Start Cap's are almost always plastic. Most of the A/C's I've tinkered with do not have Start Assist, so I'm not sure about testing them. I believe some of them have a small resistor across, and not sure that would allow testing with a meter.
Have you tried your generators with a good parallel kit yet? You may be doing all this for nothing.
