Yesterday, I came home to a hot house. I tried everything to adjust the vents and make it better. The fan kept running but nothing got cooler. I went and met up with some friends and came back...fan still running. Went to bed, woke up HOT AS RAPTURE REJECTS!!! I flipped all the switches on the thermastat with no positive effects. While I was showering, I remembered Megan had told me she heard "Loud popping coming from the outside unit" I heard it through the phone while I was out of town last weekend, but didn't think anything of it except maybe the fan was hitting. The cold week didn't reveal the circuit breaker had tripped.

So I flipped the circuit breaker and went about getting ready to head to Knoxville when POP! POP! POP! not regularly, but just occassionally and it sounded electrical (like a welder). By the time I downstairs to the breaker box, it had tripped and popped the time-delay fuse outside. Oh well... went to the show. Came back and took the cover off. Didn't see any black wires...so I replaced the time delay fuses and watched the thing come on after dark. No popping. Awesome!!!         POP! I jumped a mile high cause I was cleaning up around the unit. I watched and realized the blue spark was coming from the compressor's wiring box. Shut it all down and cut the power. Took the fan and everything out. I grabbed the mirror on a stick that I won from the raffle at a club meeting. There's your problem...

One of the three wires was laying across another wire's connector and the vibration had cut the insulation. Every now and then, it would arc.  I shrink wrapped the wires and connectors and then bent the wires to stay out of the way. It works and no popping!!!

I'll call Alan for something else some other time.

Does anyone know how long it takes to cool a house down from 83 degrees to 70??