My Central Air will not turn on

[Rbokie24]

Hello,

I noticed a smell similar to wires burning coming from my 5 year old thermostat. The air had not been on all day and it is 85 in my house. I went to Home Depot and bought a new thermostat and hooked it up. The A/C still wont come on. I turned the unit off downstairs and unplugged the fuse out side for about 30 minutes and then turned them both back on and still nothing. When I go outside and push on the new contactor that was installed three weeks ago and hold the contactor in the outside unit comes on. But if i let go, nothing.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

-Ryan

[Noon-Air]

Its broken, and its not the thermostat.

Yup

Your welcome

[Rbokie24]

Thanks Einstein that helps me immensely.

[Rbokie24]

Yeah, great advice. Next smartass response please...

I was told that this was a good place to get help in fixing problems without having to call someone out but apparently my sources were incorrect. Thanks for not helping me.

[Joseph]

Try alt.home.repair

[<kjpro]

Who changed the three week old contactor?

[Jeffrey Lebowski]

Go outside and push in the contacter..

Keep holding it down untill it&#39;s finally cold enough for you go back inside.

[Zephyr]

The same numb-rod who told him he could get quality advice from alt.hvac!

[CJT]

It sounds like the control transformer has fried.

[Jeffrey Lebowski]

Your perfectly welcome.

[Noon-Air]

You were told wrong... now quit trying to be another typical tight assed SOB slumlord wannabe, pry open your wallet with a wrecking bar, and call a

*LOCAL* tech to come fix your screw ups.

[Rbokie24]

Go f*ck yourself Noon-Air.

[The Freon Cowboy]

run back to home cheapo and try another thermostat , the one you bought is bad

Rbokie24 wrote:

[Noon-Air]

Welcome to my killfile asshole

*PLONK*

[Tony]

My vocabulary is limited and I am not HVAC man and I often disagreed with many guys in here. However my dear man if you don&#39;t have any experience with electrical or electronics you should kept your pause of the unit, now you made half hour of work for tech. to half day. Thermostat is not only thing that control any refrigeration system. while you may think otherwise take it from old man if you don&#39;t know what are you doing stay out of it. Tony

[<kjpro]

Because they know what they&#39;re doing and post accurate information Tony on the other hand posts crap and then says he&#39;s right.

But as you see above, he admits he&#39;s not an HVAC man. Tony, you&#39;re nothing more than a dumbass!

Tony, read the last line above till *you* understand it... now think about this one...

"take it from old man if you don&#39;t know what are you doing don&#39;t post it"

(Grammar errors left in place, so maybe you can understand it)

[Rbokie24]

Hey everyone,

Just thought you all would like to know that the actual problem was a blown transformer. It&#39;s fixed now and the house is cooling.

and, no Im not an HVAC person either but Im the type of person that can turn a screw or hammer a nail and if it would have been the thermostat it would have been fixed by me. Im not afraid to try and fix things that Im capable of fixing. I dont need to call someone to come and fix it for me if I can fix it myself. In this case, i couldnt fix it myself SO I CALLED SOMEONE WHO COULD.

Have a nice weekend.

[Tony]

Well what can I say I can&#39;t expect anything less from person that talks out of experience

[Superheat]

All caused by the fact that you were too f****ng stupid to unplug the airhandler when you wired you&#39;re home cheapo thur me stat.

[<kjpro]

So you have a crystal ball that says his original stat wasn&#39;t the cause?