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Also, if you have your dad's model # of his outside unit, along with the 4 numbers after the F in the serial, I might have a source for a ball bearing 70 degree C condensor fan motor.

So glad you brought that up. I am actually work in the hvac industry. Deal with that very brand. Great equipment. But, copper tube coils of a somewhat recent vintage are known to leak. Makes me sick to see the warranty piles of those coils. Some were even replacements for replacements. The new...

Not to worry. Trane has not started using micro-channel evaporators. As far as their residential units, the only thing that I am aware that they had micro-channel in was the cheap XB300 ac units. York also has used them in their residential ac units. United Technologies, Ingersoll-Rand, JCI...

Are you sure the evaporator is copper tube aluminum fin? I hope it is not for your sake. Goodman (owned by Daikin now) switched over to an all aluminum design a few years back to eliminate formicary corrosion issues. Don't feel too bad about the compressors not being made by Goodman. Carrier...

That's great! Glad to hear. Now you can have motor re-wound for total peace of mind.

Yes, as far as the 450v written on a capacitor, if it is that or higher voltage, you would be fine. As for attaching, I have seen the stud mounted ones like you are describing, as far as most that I see in my industry have a half-round clamp holding them in, or if the new capacitor is bigger...

Sorry to hear that. I don't blame you for wanting to re-wind the motor. As for draining the unit, does it have a separate drain pump? If so, does this pump work OK as far as you can tell? Usually, replacing a capacitor is not too expensive. Don't worry if the terminals on a new one are a...

Re-winding the motor kind of depends on if the windings got hot enough to break down the varnish that insulates the copper. There is a device called a megaohm metter or megger that sends a brief but high voltage pulse through the windings to see if the insulation is broke down enough to warrant...

Mmmm, now I am curious if the motor shop has a electrical multimeter with a capacitance check mode. Did the motor shop also look at the capacitor when the motor was re-wound? The only other thing I could think of is if the timer contacts are oxidized or something like that and is creating a...

On a second glance at your pictures, I guess the white module/box is just a wiring terminal box. I am assuming this machine runs on 240 VAC 50 Hz? Still makes me wonder if after all this time the condenser/capacitor dried out or the dielectric separations inside the capacitor deteriorated to...

Sorry to get back with you late. I am hazarding a guess that the auxiliary winding is the start winding, and that white module mounted on the side of the motor might be a current relay. I can't quite tell from the picture, but does that white box/module have any arrow or direction indicators...

Now I do not know anything about this machine, but does the main wash pump motor that you had re-wound have a start switch, more or less a remote start relay mounted elsewhere on the machine? If so, when the motor gets up to 75 percent speed, usually in a second or less, it should drop out the...

The only thing I would warn about using the CFL lights is UV degradation of plastic lenses. Don't mean anything bad by it, but I have had quite a few things destroyed by them over time. The Cree LEDs don't seem to do it. I still have a Sony XBR WEGA tube type TV that, if you use a cfl, turn it...

If I'm not mistaken, this is a Whirlpool manufactured KUDS21SS-2 Selectra with the rotary power switch and separate computer. The KUDS22ST-0 has the vacuum fluorescent display, and not the red LED display. Since this has the WhisperQuiet emblem, I'm fairly certain it is a Whirlpool. This should...

The KDSS-21 is mine. John (combo52) graciously helped me by having a new computer and keypad for this unit. This was actually one of the last Hobart built Selectras as it has the Hobart badge, and notice, no WhisperQuiet insignia on the front panel. Also, the Kitchenaid emblem is an acrylic...

Hummm, not quite sure why that didn't work, let me try again. It also has a washable filter that I had removed for the picture.

Don' t mean to sound like an ad for Speed Queens lol (Washman, don't worry, I have two new awn542 washers squirrelled away) but Oasis started making their dehumidifiers again a few years ago. If you cannot find a good vintage one, this is a great new one. It has a Tecumseh reciprocating...

Hi everyone. Just wanted to share some great joy in finding a new dehumidifier made like the old ones used to be. It is an Oasis D-165HG GST 35 pint per day dehumidifier. I couldn't find too much on the internet about it, but after seeing that the front cover was the old design, mechanical...

Great looking machine! Congratulations on your awesome find! Curious, does this have the Hobart 20A reversing motor, or the hammertone endbell Emerson? Either way, a great machine!

Thank you all for your comments! To washer111: I also thought the same about the rotary power switch and using relays, but after examining how it works, the rotary power switch has no load through it until the power relay in the computer module closes, so when the RPS advances, the contacts in...