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Anthone Simon video – Capacitor Troubleshooting
Anthone Simon video transcript – Capacitor Troubleshooting (Training Video Transcript)
00:00:01
Hello. So, my name is Anthone Simon. I’m currently attending HVAC Technical Academy. So, today I’m going to show you guys how to troubleshoot a capacitor here. So, what a capacitor does, it energizes the outdoor fan motor and it also energizes the compressor as well. So, first we need to first see our microfarads to see how much energy is stored. It has to meet a certain requirement when we check it. So for this one in particular, it’s kind of scratched out, but it is 75 by four or five. It’s kind of messed up here.
00:00:39
But the way how you would check it is you would get your multimeter clamp meter and you check your common, sorry, you check your common here with your herm and you check your common with your fan. So for the herm or hermetic that’s going to go towards the compressor. So, what you do is we check to see if it’s going to get close to 75. So, 73 or 77, that’s what we’re going to look for around that ballpark. So, on our clamp meter, we’re not getting that.
00:01:30
Okay. So now we know that our herm side is not working or is not given enough energy. So let’s check our fan side. So we have 22.1. All right. Okay. So our fan side is low as well. So in this case for a capacitor there is no fixing. You have to replace it. All right. So we have another capacitor. This one is a 40×5. So now we’re going to check if this one is good. So once again you check you put your common to your herm. Let’s see. So, we have 40 41 39.6 and we’re looking for 40. So, our hermetic side is pretty good.
00:02:37
Now, let’s check for our fan side. And for our fan, we’re looking for five. So, we have to go within a 6%. So we have we’re looking for 4.6 or we’re looking for 5.3. So in that range right there. So you make it here. Okay. We have 5.03. So our fan side is good as well. So this will be a great capacitor to switch out with this one.
00:03:22
So that’s how you fix your capacitor or that’s how you diagnose it to know when you need one because sometimes you will end up switching a motor but the whole time all you needed was just a new capacitor. All right. So I’m Anthony. This is HVAC Technical Academy. Thank you.