Our heat pump has stopped working. The air handler works fine, the
outside unit stopped working as the circuit breaker on the house panel
tripped and will not reset. This was a new installation in 8/1999.
Service tech says it is the compressor that has failed as indicated by
a "Compressor shorted to ground" failure write up, requiring a new
compressor.
He explained that 'some new federal mandates' require that the cure
would be much more expensive that it would have been say, 4-5 years
ago and proceeded to state why the 'new fed rerquirements' would
complicate the repair. It was a 10 Seer Trane XL1000 unit. These new
'mandates' are making me suspicious as the company no longer pushes
Trane as their main line. The installing company did the check-up.
Also, he stated that the unit has lost no coolent.
I am wondering if anyone has any additional info or knows of some
questions I might ask...such as WHY the unit failed (he couldnt really
say why, stated maybe elec co. brownouts).
Thanks to anyone who might be able to help,
Brian
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