5 Electrical Mistakes That Fry Your AC Every Storm Season

🔧 Everything I learned fixing HVAC for 25 years, in one plain-English book. 📘 THE HVAC SURVIVAL GUIDE - get it here: https://raydutton.com The morning after the storm you walk out to the gray box, and it looks fine. No scorch, no smoke. Two days later it quits, and the man in the truck looks at it, says one word - lightning - and hands you a quote that starts at nine thousand dollars. The part that actually died is sitting in his side pocket for twenty dollars. We are right in the middle of storm and hurricane season, so before the next one rolls through, let me show you the five mistakes that hand a storm the blame - and the cheap thing nobody tells you. The 5 storm mistakes, cheapest first: Running it through the flicker (the compressor cooks on a hard start - turn it off, leave it off 30 minutes) The flip-trip-flip breaker (one reset, then stop) Water where the power comes in (the two-minute look at the disconnect and the whip) Nothing between your unit and the line (the eighty-dollar surge protector at the disconnect) The one word that writes the quote - and the single question that kills it Chapters: 0:00 The $9,000 quote and the $20 part 0:37 #1 Running it through the flicker 3:01 The one thing that saved me 25 years of receipts 3:29 #2 The flip, trip, flip breaker 5:47 #3 Water where the power comes in (the whip) 8:32 #4 Nothing between your unit and the line (surge protector) 11:17 #5 The one word that writes the quote 13:09 When it IS a real strike (that is an insurance claim) 13:33 The one question: show me the dead part 14:39 The five, put back together Tell me in the comments what state you are in and how old your unit is - storm season looks different in every part of the country, and I read every one. Subscribe, there is a lot of storm season left. #HVAC #StormSeason #ACrepair #SurgeProtector #Lightning #HomeMaintenance #HVACscam #SaveMoney