Team - I know enough to be dangerous, but I need another set of eyes on this. I have a aquacomfort heat pump. The pump is 4 years old and after starting it up today for the first time I noticed that the compressor is kicking on, but the Fan is not. I gave it a love tap and then it started turning. I went back out there a little while later and it stopped running again
I checked the capacitor and there is no short. I don't have a way to test the discharge of the capacitor, but it starts the compressor fine.
So I pulled followed the wiring on the fan and this is what there is:
5 wires to the motor:
ground
white - power from the relay
black - from the main power terminal coming into the unit
common - from the capacitor
fan - from the capacitor
here are the ohms readings
I checked the capacitor and there is no short. I don't have a way to test the discharge of the capacitor, but it starts the compressor fine.
So I pulled followed the wiring on the fan and this is what there is:
5 wires to the motor:
ground
white - power from the relay
black - from the main power terminal coming into the unit
common - from the capacitor
fan - from the capacitor
here are the ohms readings
- There are no dead shorts to ground on any of the wires
- white to common - 0 ohms [This is the culprit, correct?]
- white to run - 56.4
- fan to common - 56.3
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