$20 if you count the handful of 3amp fuses I popped trying to find the fault, the extra crispy lizard was apparently not the problem.

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    I spent more than a couple hounded dollars on servicemen to install some kind of delay between turning on the fan and the compressor, because the fuse kept triggering. It helped for couple days but the problem reappeared. Finally, I managed to fix it my self by simply tightening the wire at the fuse - due to bad connection, the connection was heating up, heating up the fuse and, since the fuse is thermal, the fuse was triggering.

    I felt like a smug … idiot after that.

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      The fact that the serviceman didnt check something like that first tells ya a lot about some of those guys.

      We like to think they know a lot about this sort of thing because they do it all day, but theyre just as dumb and bumbling as anyone else doing any other kinda job.

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        1 year ago

        Well, it could be that some of them did it on purpose, because they started to convince me that the compressor motor is old, and that’s why it triggers.

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        Yeah, right. “Work completed, the part installed, can give you discount next time”