$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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that was literally the last 2 times. This time it was the secondary coil on the contactor, had a short. Well i guess it's technically always short since it's a continuous wire but it was even shorter. Was getting about 2 ohms across the coil and i guess 10-20 ohms is expected and the low resistance was popping the secondary fuse.
Does your magic words require a degree to understand and practice or my dumb ass can learn the magic of fixing ACs?
being an electrical engineer has its perks, but the couple youtube videos i watched didn't require any technical knowledge, mostly just safety knowledge, like the one hand rule and how to safety squint.
is figuring out this sort of stuff an exercise of trying to reverse engineer the product, or is it much simpler than I make it out to be? whenever I want to try and fix something all the videos I see people just magically know which places shouldn’t be shorting, and magically know which capacitor is causing it
It can be simple, you don't have to understand why something is wrong to know that it's wrong. They magically know it's the capacitor because it's the usual suspect, and they usually look swollen (the capacitor not necessarily the youtuber). Common problems are common, which is why youtube is pretty great because somene has probably had the same problem and posted the fix.