must have been cold

[soonerfan]

Got a call from a friend of a friend who said that the breaker for his heat pump would trip about once a week. When I got there I took the cover off of the unit and checked compressor and fan motor with meter. Compressor showed open winding while checking from contactor. Took cover off of compressor terminals and saw this. The picture isn't great as it was taken with a cameraphone, but it is a piece of 3/8 copper tubing that was crimped onto a terminal on compressor with the wire crimped into it. The wire had burned off. Guy said that he had one of his fire department buddies fix the unit a couple of years ago because he knew what he was doing. Guess his buddy wanted to come back on a real "fire" call.

[RedWireGoesWere]

Guy said that he had one of his fire department buddies fix the unit a couple of years ago because he knew what he was doing. Guess his buddy wanted to come back on a real "fire" call.[/QUOTE]


Ahhhh yes the buddy who knows everything.

"Don't worry you cant get hurt doing this its only a 20ft drop it wont hurt if you fall."

[Jwise]

I have seen similar quick fixes. It is scary what some people will do to make a unit run. I guess this is a sooner fan also. He wanted to kill the unit sooner.

[soonerfan]

Good one. He was probably an aggie though from the looks of his work. LOL

[MarkArispe]

Crazy.

[tombeaux]

I work for a govt entity and see Firemans efforts gone wrong all the time . I am certain not all are this way . But it looks to me like job security for first responders ! LOL