(2): A/C ~10Kbtu/hr -- tries 10 or 20 times before compressor turns on.

David Combs · 2010-07-25T20:51:56+00:00

A/C keeps trying (you can hear it), MANY times, eg 10, sometimesmaybe even 20, before you hear the compressor finally turn on.MAYBE it's simply because it's so hot here (10mi north of NYC)that everyone's running their own AC's, that the voltage is down?(Once I checked with one or several VOM's -- seemed ok to me.But I'll try again after posting this, just to get a generaldiscussion going.)How low should the voltage get to cause such a try-try-try problem?Also, in the last "n" years, have the AC manufaacturers triedto build around the "everyone's running their AC's and voltageis a bit (a tad) low"? If so, about when did that change take place?THANKS!David