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Thanks for your reply! Here's the capacitor I purchased: http://www.ebay.com/itm/181765656759 The place that was more expensive is a chain that charges a lot. My friend had told me someplace around here sold it much cheaper but I called him several times yesterday (and stopped at his house)...

Update: I installed the 5mfd in place of the 12.5 and it worked. However I decided to just make sure there wasn't a larger motor installed when the motor was replaced in the past (just had a bad feeling about it) and I managed to see the label on the fan and sure enough it said 1/4 horsepower...

hmmm I'm still not sure what is going on. Here's an overall picture with a closeup of the dual-run capacitor wiring that is in there now. There's essentially 4 capacitors in there now when the materials sheet shows 3, right? Is one being combined to make a larger one or...??? That one...

Thanks for the replies! Before I give info to the replies above I just want to say I was thinking and did some searching and came across this: From here: http://homeenergypros.lbl.gov/profiles/blogs/correctly-sizing-a-capacitor This is interesting because the outside A/C unit is either on...

Hi all, I have a Trane TTX036C100A1 XL1200 A/C unit. I decided to purchase each of the 3 capacitors to have on hand so when one blows I got it ready to go! ...because one blew August last year and it was a $190 service call. ouch Well, when I opened it up I noticed one was leaking. That...

Thanks for your reply. :) No there's no problem with humidity--it's just a strictly cooling problem. My neighbor across the street has an A/C unit that really cools it down much faster (600 sq ft larger house, but correspondingly larger A/C system...only thing I know about its size is it's on...

Replacing several runs of wire, including both 240s for the dryer and outside A/C unit. All is good except I'm not sure about the wiring for the outside unit. What is there now is in poor shape and is smashed in the walls between the 2x4s and the brick wall. I don't think there's a linear...

ok here is the final how it stands. The 3/4" (squiggly line in drawing) goes all the way to the wall separating the garage from the crawlspace. What that means is that the 3/4" transitions to 1/2" which then goes to the washing machine and then to the hot water heater and then all of the hots...

hmmm...I was almost hoping you said that sounded right. lol Most stuff was replaced in the HWH, all the water lines have been replaced in the house. I checked and when hot water is called for the burner turns on nearly right away so it's on the ball. One thing I am thinking about is I...

hmm I looked at it and it's a Power Miser 12 and says 40,000BTU/hr and says 40.94 recovery gallons/hr Do those specs seem to fit what I'm describing? or does it still sound like something's wrong? The guy here seemed to agree with me that it seemed to get too cold too quick but maybe we're...

ok I talked to the guy and he said they just plumbed it with 3/4" from the meter to the water heater and I believe he said it was 3/4" into the meter so they just went with that and he hasn't had any complaints with the water or the pressure. I don't think I'm going to get any of them to budge...

I happened to have today set as a repair appointment for he hot water heater. The thinking is the cold tube in it is broke so it's going to be replaced. We'll him and I get along really well. I even have his home number. His brother is a plumber and they recently redid his home in pex using...

I found the beginning VERY interesting because he shows figuring up the developed length included what was under the lawn (from the water meter to the front of the house). On the phone when I was going over what I had I gave him the parts of my addition (meter to house, house to water heater...

ok he just called me back and said that the International Residential Code 2009 is what is used for the residential code, whereas the IPC is more for the commercial. I didn't know he was using the IRC and he didn't know I was using the IPC. I do see in the IRC it says a minimum 3/8" can be...

I just called up and talked with the inspector and he said that the city hasn't adopted the Appendix (all what I'm showing him is out of Appendix E) and it has to be out of the 'code' (meaning non-appendix) part of the IPC 2009. Can anyone tell me what is going on because I'm lost?!?!