It's hot up here...

My studio and office are in the upper room of my house. 2nd floor. 

Last night I came up here to work on a guitar part for another caker's song and turned on the air conditioner.  About 10 minutes later it was still hot, so I just kept working. An hour went by..... still hot. Finished and got up to check the thermostat. Hummmm strange.... it is on cool.... the set point is below the temp in the room, AC should be working.

Shut it off time for bed...worry about it in the morning. 

That was last night.... today, another 80 degree + day... it's warm. Turn on the AC.... go down stairs and check the compressor outside. We had some problems with it a few weeks back when it wasn't running the compressor to heat the rooms.  Had to run it on heat strips for a few nights. We had it serviced and it worked fine..... until....... 

Look out the window in the kitchen....OK... the fan isn't running. Go outside and check the circuit breaker. It's tripped.... ok so I reset it. Fan fires up compressor starts up..... circuit breaker kicks off 4 seconds later. Reset and try again.... same thing. Dang..... double dang..... 

Not looking good. Looks like the compressor may actually be locked up for real. This means a complete new HVAC package for the 2nd story rooms. Anyway, waiting on the repair guy who installed and services it to show up to check it out maybe tomorrow. 

Got to have AC up here in the summer... when my daughters come home from school for the summer and on weekends.... oh yeah, got to have AC running. Besides, it just makes the studio so much nicer to work in. 

Ouch. That's bad. 

Strangely enough, we've actually had to turn up the heat on a couple of occasions since we've moved here. Last night again. Personally, I like a very cool house, but my wife, not quite as much. 

At the condo where we lived, I had had the AC on for a couple of weeks already. So I'm thinking that the summer here in this house may not be as bad as it would have been somewhere else. As long as I stay in. :)

yeah, it's nice in the mornings up here.... and the repair guy can't be here until Friday in the morning.... so..... 

Herb,

At least yours went out in the Spring.  Ours went out last summer in July....in Texas....over 100 degrees.  Not good.  We had to have the entire unit replaced and it took over a week to get on his schedule and replaced.  If we did n't have some family in Dallas it would have been a pretty miserable week in July.  I have always said that Texas needs to put up a monument to the man that invented AC.

Every spring I had to replace a fuse with my A/C...  No idea why.

it was 28 degrees here last night....
and snow...

and hurricane force winds.

ugh.

it was 28 degrees here last night.... and snow... and hurricane force winds. ugh.

 
Dang man... I realize someone needs to live in SLC but does it have to be you?? Ahhhh, I am kidding, Utah is exactly where I would live if I wasn't so tied by family and business to GA. I love northeast Utah and WY. (I am guessing that SL.UT is Salt Lake.)
 
Just wait until July/August...  I can't wait to hear what Rain thinks of Las Vegas in the heat of summer. It may be an oasis but all things considered, it is still a desert.
 
J
 
 

He hasn't made it out to ya yet? - Ughh  the heat sucks
 
The only other trick I can think of but Im sure you don't have one laying around is a Hot Start Capacitor.  Id add them to help save energy but they are made to really juice the motor and get it going fast saving electricity on compressor motor start ups
 
Hope he gets out there soon.  Cant imagine you trying to work in a Sauna and trying to enjoy a hot cup of coffee as you work up there

Yeah Mike, that's what he said he would try first. 

I certainly hope that works.  

He's busy right now on a job out of town, so that's why he's slow in getting here. 

Tomorrow morning at 9am......... 

I did a similar thing with on old Curtis Mathes TV I had. We had that TV since the early days, I think before we even got married. Anyway we noticed the pic wasn't as bright as it had been and turning up the brightness knob to full had already been done. 

I saw a "tube brightner" in one of the parts magazines I got in the mail so I ordered one and installed it. 

It revived that old tube.... the pic was bright enough that I could turn the brightness back down a bit. We ended up giving that TV to my mom since she was using a very old TV that was in bad shape....and refused to buy a new one. She used that CM that we gave her, for a number of years until my brother broke down and bought her a new flat screen when she moved to the hills with him. 

Whats the good word Herb?

craigb

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Whats the good word Herb?

Out here (near Portland) many people think "Herb" is the good word!

  Same thing round these parts
 

I'm awaiting a quote for the replacement.  Compressor is shot.  Dead short electrically. 

The good news is I can get better efficiency and more cooling power. Some of the 95+ degree days would have it hard pressed to keep it comfortable up there.