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Brayden Adams video transcript - Condenser Fan Motors (Training video Transcript)
Hello everybody. My name is Brayden, and I am at the HVAC Technical Academy in Sanford, Florida, and today I’m going to be telling you everything about condenser fan motors.
What a condenser fan motor does is pull air through the condenser coils to remove heat from your refrigerant. Ways to tell if it goes bad are: you’ll have system shutdowns, compressor overheating that can ultimately lead to compressor damage, and warmer air coming out of the vents.
Some ways to test: you can test with your capacitor, from your four-prong to your two-prong, and make sure you know what your minimum and maximum range is. Another good way to test is you want to flip this over after you remove all your screws, then you want to spin this and check for seized bearings. You’ll feel any resistance and you’ll hear it if you have seized bearings.
So let’s say it’s bad and now you want to replace it. You’ve got to remove your set screw, take off the fan blade, make sure your wires are disconnected, and flip this back over. Then you want to remove these four screws right here. That’s how you take it off. Then you put your new one back on, connect your wires, get everything back to how it was, and that’s about it.
Most common things that will go bad are age, wear, capacitor, and bearings.
Thanks for watching my video. I’m Brayden at HVAC Technical Academy, and have a good day.