Air Conditioner Keeps Tripping Breaker... Stop Resetting it!
Channel: HVACR Survival
Date: 2023-08-27

If your air conditioner is tripping the breaker, there's likely something going on with it, don't keep resetting the breaker. In this video, you're going to see what was the cause of the breaker, tripping and some other things that we found that were needing addressed. Check out the video and if you liked it, please leave me a comment and a thumbs up check out some of my other hundreds a Videos I'm sure there's something you might find interesting to you. 

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00:00 Breaker Tripping on the air conditioiner
01:30 checking electrical connections and voltages at disconnect
02:49 checking resistance of the compressor for shorts to ground
04:52 checking the capacitor on a air conditioner
06:26 checking the blower compartment for electrical shorts
07:31 let the fun begin Look at this!
10:17 bad electrical connections in breaker box
13:56 Repairing the electrical short
17:19 Checking amperage and demonstrating a electrical wild leg
20:26 Visual inspection of air conditioning equipment
21:10 How to repair a condensate trap when you don't have a barbed fitting
22:02 Repairing low-voltage hackery