DIY Air Conditioner fix for 2 dollars
Channel: FixitEasy
Date: 30/12/2022

Today I will show you how to DIY fix your AC for the cost of 2 dollars!
Yes this is true!
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00:00 Intro
00:37 What the problem is
02:10 Removing the front pannel
03:10 Locating the capacitor
03:45 Fixing the problem
04:21 The capacitor
04:58 Soldering job
05:42 Reassembling
05:56 Turning back on
06:57 Testing

Script:
Hellow dear friends! 
Today I will show you how to repair your Air conditioner for the price of just one dollar! 
Now I will show you what is the problem. 
Most important I will show you how to fix this issue super easy. 
This procedure can be done for almost every brand and model of split-type air conditioners! 
Because it is not capable to reach the necessary RPM`s the air conditioner control board will tell the unit to stop because of a failure. 
In other words the unit will run for a while but then it will stop because of the failure. That`s because the capacitor is probably faulty. 
Here you can see that the turbine stopped turning and the unit shows the fault by blinking the lights on the front pannel. 
I already fixed a dosen of air conditioners this way. It was always the same problem with all of them! Now I will show you how I did it! 
First of all, we have to unplug the unit from the power! 
Then we have to wait a couple of minutes. This will let the capacitors inside to discharge, because they store electricity and it could be dangerous for you!
Now I will leave the camera aside to show you how to disassemble the unit and proceed further! We have to reach the electronics inside where we are going to do the actual fixing procedure. 
Excuse me I just had to have for a little quick a snack. 
Now when I have removed all screws I will remove the front pannel and reach the main board of the unit. 
So my friends, this is how it looks inside the unit. 
Here we are going to look for the capacitor which is responsible for the turbine fan. 
When we reached so far here is the main board. 
I will pull the borad a little. 
This will let me reach the legs of the capacitor. 
Here we can see the big capacitor. 
You should look for the largest capacitor inside. 
It is what we are looking for. We could find a substitute of this element, but I will leave it here and I will use a similar one to solder it in paralel whit the faulty one.
I will leave the old capacitor in place.
It is non-polarity capacitor, so we don`t need to worry about polarity. 
In other words there is now plus and minus here. 
We can just swap bravely red and black wires here! 
I will use similar capacitor with wires. 
I will solder the wires on the other side of the bread-board and I will put the capacitor somewhere inside the unit. 
Here is the capacitor, which I am going to use. 
It is non-polarity element, 3.5 microfarads, 450 volts. 
It is not brand-new, I just tok it from some old washing machine but it will do the job just fine. 
We can use any capacitor inbetween 1.5 and 5 microfarads and 450 or more volts. 
Note that it should be non-polarity one! 
I guess this will solve the problem. 
You can buy this element for about dollar or 2 in radioshack or some other radio stores. 
I will remove the connectors and presolder the wires of the capacitor. 
This will make it easier to solder the wires on the main-board. 
Here is how I soldered the wires on the board. 
You can see how I attached the wires on the back of the capacitor. 
As I said, you don`t have to worry about the polarity here. 
Now put the capacitor somewhere. 
We have to be carefull not to touch the piping inside the unit. 
After that I will put back the borad and rearrange the wires carefully. 
Then I will put back all the pastik pannels and will test it! 
So dear friends this is how this repair has been done. 
Now I will plug back the power and use the remote control to turn it on. 
And let`s see the result! 
Here is the remote control. 
Maybe you noticed that this remote control looks kind of strange. 
The lower half looks brand-new while the upper part is yellowish. 
Actually I used a very interesting technique to whiten half of the remote control. 
If you are interested of this lifehack please check my channel. There you will find a video, dedicated on this experiment! 
OK let`s turn this air conditioner on now! 
I have climbed back to the unit to show you how the turbine will react after the fix we just done. 
Now it is performing pre-defrost and in second it will start running. 
Ok it`s ready and it will start working. 
Now you can see how it is working! 
Much faster than before. 
You can hear it and it can be felt already. 
There is heat coming out of it now! 
That means that we just fixed this air conditioner! 
Dear friends you just saw how easy it was to repair this unit for the cost of 2 dollars. 
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