{"id":991,"date":"2017-09-12T20:58:07","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T03:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dhoytt.com\/mainblog\/?p=991"},"modified":"2017-09-13T05:06:34","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T12:06:34","slug":"perfect-100-degree-evening-in-attic-with-ac-then-garden-planting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dhoytt.com\/mainblog\/2017\/09\/perfect-100-degree-evening-in-attic-with-ac-then-garden-planting\/","title":{"rendered":"Perfect 100 Degree Evening In Attic with AC Then Garden Planting\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spent the evening first in the attic where my central air units blower was ground to a stop then, in the garden planting some new mature tomato plants.<\/p>\n

This was was the second time in 5 weeks I had major issues with my AC unit. The prior issue end of July was my external AC units fan that cools the compressor had stopped. In July I was able to troubleshoot that to a capacitor issue that is common with AC external units. In July I purchased the capacitors and a relay unit with a friend who has a contractors license. Ended up replacing 2 capacitors and a relay unit.<\/p>\n

Today I ended up finding the issue was the blower had somehow slipped to the bottom of the shaft and was scraping the bottom of its enclosure. At the top there’s a brace that has 3 places the fan hangs from and 2 of the 3 screws were loose so I tightened them.<\/p>\n

The fan unit of the blower was still scraping the bottom of the enclosure so I loosened the screw\/pin or whatever its called on the shaft moved it up and tightened it.<\/p>\n

The blower shaft is like a half- moon D shaft with the square screw\\pin on the flat portion. Thank goodness I could get to it from the part of the attic where it had the most room and a nice platform to layout on.<\/p>\n

Still at one point I had one finger pinned between 2 sharp fan blades and the side of the sharp enclosure with the fan digging into my flesh and my other arm on the other side of my body. I was able to carefully and slowly reposition without losing flesh or a fingernail which seemed inevitable at one point.<\/p>\n

To get the clearance to tighten the fan on the right spot I had to use my ratchet wrench as a spacer between the fan and its enclosure.<\/p>\n

On top of that I also had to pickup all my pieces of my 155 piece tool case I had dropped!<\/p>\n

After all of that I was going to leave the 3 tomato plants I had picked up Sunday and intended to plant first thing this evening for another day. I was pretty riled up from the AC trying to get me again so I decided I wouldn’t let that stop my plans got my lantern and spot light plus shovel and planted my tomatoes!<\/p>\n

Now I hope I’m ready for the next AC surprise and I have part of my secondary plants planted for our late California gardening season we have if you are prepared.<\/p>\n

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July’s pictures of capacitors\/relays I replaced \u00a0several weeks ago above. Realizing I never took the finished photo.<\/p>\n

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Blower unit in picture above where I made the adjustments. Fan was firm to the bottom when I checked.<\/p>\n

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Other side of unit in the attic.<\/p>\n

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The entire unit with covers off.<\/p>\n

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New tomato plant number 1.<\/p>\n

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New tomato plant number 1 again,<\/p>\n

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New tomato plant number 2.<\/p>\n

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New tomato plant number 3.<\/p>\n

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Me nice and grimy about to clean up after washing hands<\/p>\n

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Still nice and grimy thinking I’m gonna hit the pool for a quick dip to relax from this craziness that could have had serious fall out from being a fire hazard with seized motor, plus those costs of replacing the motor, adding to heat stress on my computer workstations and my servers.<\/p>\n

Lessons I have learned is don’t ignore little sounds or other signs of equipment variances it saves a lot of money in the long run and do your best to fix it right and gain a true understanding of why something isn’t working so its no longer a mystery. Also document which I have found my blog useful for. Many times I’m finding myself searching my blog for past computer system fixes and I have a few listed but not nearly enough,<\/p>\n

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