[v2k04]

I was trained by your generation. lol I've only been doing it for twenty.

[kayakcrzy]

Icehouse, isn't that a bunch of garbage on sheila's site. It hard to wade through it. Ice house wouldn,t you consider a tech with 20 years experience a rookie. LOL!!!! Tom ApplianceEducator.com

[v2k04]

Thats why I'm here so I can learn more.lol If I'm ever wrong please correct me I've been wrong once or twice before ;-) Like I said I was trained by the best.

[icehouse]

I am only as good as you guys, just been at it since the days of the Westinghouse Ratcheting Defrost Timer to count how many times the door open and closed (sound familiar). And GE Compressors had a Fourth terminal.

[Oxebo69]

What i meant it's to find the Common, Start or Run.

If Between 2 pins of the compressor (since it's a triangle) you have the biggest resistance. It means that the other pin is the Common.

If Between the other 2 pins ít's medium resistance. It means Run

The final pin is the start!

Maybe didnt explained well
I like it here a lot good support!!! Hope to speak to you soon!

[icehouse]

Compressor terminal identification U.S. Army Refrigeration School Fort Belivor, Virginia.
Compressors have three terminals that may or may not form a triangle, sometimes they are side by side, sometimes one on top of another However you read them like a book. From left to right. Common,Start and Run. This applies to most American Compressors.
The other method is the A,B,C method.
1. Any two pins and call them A and B the other pin label C
2. Take a reading from A to B and write it down. = 5 Ohms
3. Take a reading from A to C and write it down. = 2 Ohms
4. Take a reading from B to C and write it down. = 7 Ohms
5. Add all A readings. 5+2=7
6. Add all B readings. 5+7=12
7. Add all C readings. 7+2=9
8. The largest reading is B, so that is Start
9. The next largest is C, therefore is is the Run
10. So that leaves A, which is the lowest, it is Common
Thank you everyone for your support and I hope I am not annoying.

[kayakcrzy]

A B C D E F G. Mr. Ice house come and help me. LOL. Tom ApplianceEducator.com

[icehouse]

Tom, I help everyone I can. And twenty years ! I get guys with 7 months of "Apex Technical School" who think they know everything.
As a test I take them to a site with a Trane Centra-Vac centrifugal chiller and ask them to explain it.

[kayakcrzy]

That's way to give them a reality check. LOL Tom

[icehouse]

Originally Posted by kayakcrzy

That's way to give them a reality check. LOL Tom

I love when they say "so what does this thing have to do with "Air Conditioning".