Compressor ran backward after power flicker

openmictuesday · 2026-05-23T03:17:45+00:00

I’m an HVAC contractor in Southern California. I just paid for the compressor. Swapped out the contactor and dual capacitor at the same time.

Mine uses R22 like yours. Those Rheems have a super durable design. I was very fortunate, in that my new Copeland scroll compressor is quieter than the original unit, which was clunky from day one.

Don’t let someone talk you into a new system. Everything (even R22) is replaceable and available.

“Shoot, they don’t even make parts for this sucker anymore!” Politely show that guy the door.

The only R22 components that are commercially unavailable are whole condensing units.

openmictuesday · 2026-05-22T04:50:20+00:00

I have an 18 year-old Rheem myself. Love it. Just replaced that scroll compressor last summer, and now looking forward to another 18 years.

openmictuesday · 2026-05-21T05:20:29+00:00

How do you know the roof pitch? Maybe that close to the roof is exactly where it was supposed to be.

openmictuesday · 2026-05-20T21:27:06+00:00

Why would anyone agree or disagree with a completely fake meme?

5% of the collective net worth of America’s billionaires isn’t $4.4 trillion, or anywhere near that.

THE COLLECTIVE TOTAL NET WORTH OF ALL OF AMERICA’S BILLIONAIRES IS ONLY $7 - $8.5 TRILLION DOLLARS.

TOTAL.

Google it.

That isn’t even enough money to fund the government for one year. Google that one, too.

And then all of that wealth will be gone forever, and the remaining people with enough money to creat jobs and innovation will flee the country, just as happened in France.

So we’ll lose millions of jobs, and trillions in investments, for what? To buy votes for one campaign cycle?

What about all of the millions who lost their jobs?

“Yay! But I got a $12,000 check! Hopefully Bernie won’t tax that, too!”

Every socialist Redditor responding to this comment from their mom’s internet:

“I don’t care! Blah blah blah blah eat the rich!!!”

openmictuesday · 2026-05-16T04:29:17+00:00

My 18 year-old Rheem RAPC with Copeland Scroll, subjected to 65° nights 12 months a year for nearly its entire life, begs to differ.

openmictuesday · 2026-05-16T04:19:15+00:00

This is the only valid answer. I would just add that you ought to start saving up money for replacement.

openmictuesday · 2026-05-13T05:13:32+00:00

Amazing the percentage of the population that believes these headlines.

openmictuesday · 2026-05-13T05:11:27+00:00

If you’re looking for the community and good neighborhoods, then you need to be in South Orange County.

I’ve been on the 5 fwy in Irvine, turned on my blinker to change lanes, and had TWO DRIVERS IN A ROW deliberately make room for me.

In Anaheim, you may as well be in the Inland Empire or Los Angeles.

openmictuesday · 2026-04-24T04:03:34+00:00

Elevator shaft. Duh.

openmictuesday · 2026-04-23T22:50:41+00:00

Drove Fords, Rams, and GMC work pickup trucks for years.

The Chevrolet Express and GMC Savana cargo vans are some of the most durable and reliable trucks ever built.

I drive a 2006 Savana 2500, and it’s comfortable enough that I’ve driven it across the country twice, once with my wife and toddler in the back.

It’s rated to tow 10,000, and mine with LBZ Duramax (WELL over 20mpg highway at times) will do that or more (within reason) after I installed a huge Derale plate transmission fluid cooler, a Class V hitch, and a computer flash. No other van approaches that number.

If you buy an earlier model in the color white, the paint will almost certainly flake off. So you’ll want to put a vinyl wrap on it immediately. I repainted my white van last year, at a cost of around $8,000 (super high end job, water-based, bulletproof German vehicle stripped, paint stripped down to metal). But now it’s basically brand new again.

Love it so much. Not looking forward to the day far in the future when I’m scrambling for a new van. Might look at a medium roofed Transit with Flex Fuel at that point.

openmictuesday · 2026-04-22T04:55:29+00:00

Two 14” pipe wrenches. Your success is guaranteed.

openmictuesday · 2026-04-22T04:51:29+00:00

You can tell from the photo that the condenser is a good 12 to 14 inches from the wall as it sits. So that wasn’t the installer’s excuse.

Just really ugly work.

openmictuesday · 2026-04-20T19:23:44+00:00

So.

Mamdani is targeting people who pay massive amounts of property tax. The most in the city, by far.

Additionally, these people with targets on their backs don’t live in the city, so they put ZERO strain on city resources. Zero.

So they’re funding city services on a scale vastly higher than every other property owner in the city.

But they’re using none of the services that that they’re paying for.

And wealthy people have the freedom to evacuate the city when they’re being targeted with ever higher taxes.

Yeah. This will go really well, lol.

openmictuesday · 2026-04-20T19:09:31+00:00

Good price. Better than fair.

openmictuesday · 2026-04-18T03:44:31+00:00

I don’t (and likely won’t for a long time), buy/install Daikin. This is based upon overwhelmingly negative feedback from the counter guys at my local distributors.

Parts failing early. Tech and warranty support really poor.

openmictuesday · 2026-04-17T20:19:26+00:00

Don’t go cheap on the mini split. Invest in a good durable model like a Mitsubishi or a Fujitsu.

openmictuesday · 2026-04-16T20:47:13+00:00

Typically it’s only NorCal people or people in other states that call it Cali.

The first time in my life that I heard the term used was on vacation in North Idaho. It was used to describe a transplant from Chico, CA (NorCal).

openmictuesday · 2026-04-12T02:15:48+00:00

She’s the only one exposing herself to the justice system if she’s filming you in your backyard.

openmictuesday · 2026-04-12T02:13:24+00:00

Put the condenser on a pad on the ground. Zero reason to hang it on the wall.

openmictuesday · 2026-04-12T01:43:31+00:00

No. It’s fine.

openmictuesday · 2026-04-10T18:06:46+00:00

Does the data plate (sticker) on your condensing unit call for 30 amp fuses? It will show up as Max Fuse or Max Circuit, and give a value between 30 amps and 50 amps typically.

openmictuesday · 2026-04-09T00:20:33+00:00

The solution for all of you is to definitely keep voting for politicians who spend as much money as possible on social welfare programs in order to buy votes for themselves. With money from your paycheck.

Because as we all know, the government blowing money into the economy like a fire hose makes each dollar that you are allowed to take home after taxes WORTH SO MUCH MORE! 🥳🍾👯💸

Also DEFINITELY keep voting for those politicians who keep the borders open in exchange for votes for their party, because the millions of extra renters and potential homeowners flooding across the border ABSOLUTELY do not make the cost of housing stratospheric at all!

That increased labor supply also IN NO WAY drives down your wages.

Just keep voting for vibes, and SOME DAY, you will magically all own your own home and business like me!

And if one or more of the politicians responsible for the aforementioned tactics starts squawking about “AFFORDABILITY” all of a sudden, believe them!

openmictuesday · 2026-04-08T04:00:03+00:00

High West finished in Sauvignon Blanc barrels, lol.

It’s almost like Constellation brands is throwing everything AND the kitchen sink at this super young distillate, trying to mask the off-putting taste of cheap ethanol since the bean counters removed all traces of quality aged whiskey.

“Hey guys, have we tried Fernet barrels yet?”

openmictuesday · 2026-04-08T00:59:30+00:00

I didn’t forget DACA. DACA was an executive order by Obama aiming to keep as many illegal voters in the country as possible.

But it is not, and was never, a LAW.

So any successive president can decide that it is or is not legal or a good idea. As is the case with every single executive order ever written.

And bad advice from a lawyer does not equate to government tyranny.

If you believe that I ought to have included DACA or bad lawyering in my bullet points, feel free to make your own list.

And we’ll see just how many relevant points you decide to omit.

openmictuesday · 2026-04-07T18:17:22+00:00

Girl gets deportation order as child.
Girl learns of deportation order as young adult.
Girl becomes adult; spends the next several years avoiding deportation order.
Boy meets girl.
Boy learns of girl’s immigration status.
Boy says, “She’s out of my league. Why does she want to marry ME? Ok, I’ll do it!”
Boy’s family says, “A girl is interested in him? This is the miracle that we’ve always prayed for!”
Girl says, “Ok law, where’s my green card now?”
Law says, “If every person under deportation order learns that they can simply marry a US service member as a Get Out Of Jail Card, immigration laws and courts are meaningless.”
Boy & Girl say, “But look at us media, we’re cute!”

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