I bought this unit about 16 months ago second-hand, and when I got it, it wouldn't cool. After a bit of diagnosing, I figured out that the relay in it was bad, so I bypassed it, and the compressor would kick in just fine after I modified it with an on/off switch. I used it for a few months flawlessly like this running benchmarks on many different processors. It worked great up until this time last year when my life's circumstances drastically changed, and I had to hang-up the hobby. Since then, it has been stored unused and unplugged for a whole year now collecting dust. It was stored in an outside garage last summer in the heat, and this winter in the cold.
Today, I decided I'll probably never again get back into the hobby, and I was planning on putting it up for sale in the marketplace here, but when I went to plug it in and test it to see if it still worked as I thought it would, I was sorely disappointed. It turns on well, and everything, but if I recall correctly, after turning it on, about ten seconds later, the unit would click, shudder slightly, and it would begin to cool like a boss. Now it's not doing this.
Any suggestions on stuff to try to get it to kick in? I know that these things don't like to sit idle too long. I used to have window unit A/C's that would take a while to kick in after sitting the whole winter, but eventually they did. I let the unit sit running for about 10 minutes, cut it off, let it sit for a few minutes, then cut it on again, and it still never kicked in. I would like to unload this guy, but I want it to be functional first.
Today, I decided I'll probably never again get back into the hobby, and I was planning on putting it up for sale in the marketplace here, but when I went to plug it in and test it to see if it still worked as I thought it would, I was sorely disappointed. It turns on well, and everything, but if I recall correctly, after turning it on, about ten seconds later, the unit would click, shudder slightly, and it would begin to cool like a boss. Now it's not doing this.
Any suggestions on stuff to try to get it to kick in? I know that these things don't like to sit idle too long. I used to have window unit A/C's that would take a while to kick in after sitting the whole winter, but eventually they did. I let the unit sit running for about 10 minutes, cut it off, let it sit for a few minutes, then cut it on again, and it still never kicked in. I would like to unload this guy, but I want it to be functional first.
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