jaceace
13-12-2010, 01:57 PM
Hi all,
Just been to a job today where an electrician had been called out to find out why the house kept tripping out the main power breaker. Anyway he traced the problem to the Aircon unit. Instead of turning the breaker off to the unit. He cleaned out the dead rats inside the outdoor and tried to turn it on. It tripped the house again . So I was called to the house??
So I am told that a dead rat was laying across the magnetic contactor?? So after re wiring all the breakers and switches that the sparky disconnected I managed to turn the unit on....... BANG blue sparks fly from the magnetic contactor house trips :eek:.
Unit is a Daikin RY160LUY1 and I was wondering if anyone would know if any other damage could have been done prior to me turning it on? Before I turned it on I did notice some over heated cables. Just wondering if the rat could have burnt out the compressor at all. Its obvious the contactor is fried so I have a new one on order. Any other parts I should have ordered? Thanks for reading my long post.
Just been to a job today where an electrician had been called out to find out why the house kept tripping out the main power breaker. Anyway he traced the problem to the Aircon unit. Instead of turning the breaker off to the unit. He cleaned out the dead rats inside the outdoor and tried to turn it on. It tripped the house again . So I was called to the house??
So I am told that a dead rat was laying across the magnetic contactor?? So after re wiring all the breakers and switches that the sparky disconnected I managed to turn the unit on....... BANG blue sparks fly from the magnetic contactor house trips :eek:.
Unit is a Daikin RY160LUY1 and I was wondering if anyone would know if any other damage could have been done prior to me turning it on? Before I turned it on I did notice some over heated cables. Just wondering if the rat could have burnt out the compressor at all. Its obvious the contactor is fried so I have a new one on order. Any other parts I should have ordered? Thanks for reading my long post.