[AT] OT: Lucky break and a very lucky break.

[Mike]

Glad you're OK Charlie, I don't mind working with 110v, but when working 
with 220v, I'm VERY careful.

Mike M
On 9/2/2014 8:08 PM, charlie hill wrote:
>
> My air conditioning went out today.  I could tell by the way it was trying
> to start
> and failing that it was something to do with the start capacitor.  Well I
> just replaced
> that a few months ago so I was figuring I got a bad one.  I disconnected the
> power,
> pulled the cover off and thought myself lucky to find that one of the wire
> connectors
> that fastened a wire to the capacitor had corroded and burned into.  No
> problem, I can
> fix that.  I grounded out the capacitor for safety reasons,  pulled the old
> connector off
> the lug, put a new connector on the cleaned up wire and stuck it back on the
> capacitor.
> What's this ..... a big spark.  Turns out I had not grounded out the
> capacitor.  I attempted
> to but apparently my screw driver didn't find a good ground when I did it.
> That's what I mean by a very lucky break.  I could have been badly shocked
> and maybe even
> injured.  Just by fate I didn't hit the lug on the capacitor with my hand in
> the process.
> Well, not exactly luck because I'm always careful around electricity but I
> could have accidentally
> hit it.
>
> Just a reminder to myself and everyone else to be careful and check twice.
> Yes the AC fired off and runs fine now.  Cost me about a dime.
> Wonder what that would have cost me if I'd called the service rep?
>
> Charlie
>
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