jimbob
Comentado en Canadá el 20 de mayo de 2024
Solid and very well built this can save the life of your HVAC equipment.
Michael
Comentado en los Estados Unidos el 21 de noviembre de 2023
This is a very good product. It provides not only surge protection, but also protects against low voltage conditions which can also destroy your compressor. Easy to install. I noticed a long review written on November 12, 2015 in which the reviewer rants on and on about the product's short cycle protection. It is true many air conditioning units have their own short cycle protection. For that matter, many thermostats also provide it. I see nothing wrong with this unit also having short cycle protection. Years ago I installed AC units. He also failed to mention the low voltage protection which this device provides. I believe this to be a valuable function which other products I viewed failed to provide.
An
Comentado en Canadá el 21 de enero de 2021
Unit causing a false ground fault. Need to remove the unit for the A/C to work again.I still recommend it because I like the delay start after power outage.
Jim Wings
Comentado en los Estados Unidos el 29 de noviembre de 2015
If you loose electric power to your A/C unit while it is running, and the power comes on within a few seconds, the A/C compressor immediately tries to start again. In those few seconds of no power, the pressure in the cooling system did not have time to equalize (takes about a minute), so the A/C compressor has to start against that pressure. What happens is the compressor then stalls, since it does not have enough horsepower to start against that pressure. That causes an overload in the electrical circuit. The compressor has a built in overload switch, which heats up, and opens after a certain point, cutting off power to the compressor. When the overload switch cools down (a couple minutes), power is restored. But, these overload switches are cheap, and I have seen where the overload switch does not close again. Since the overload switch is internal to the compressor, and not replaceable, not closing makes your A/C compressor "junk". Replacing an A/C compressor can cost > $1000 (counting labor). The "Compressor Defender" detects when power is lost or there is a "brown out", and will not turn on the A/C compressor for 3 minutes. While not cheap, the "Compressor Defender" is a pretty cheap way to protect your A/C compressor. Some A/C units may have this protection built in, so I would check into that before purchasing.One note on installation. The directions say to connect the white wire to the "neutral" power wire. On the outside A/C unit (condenser), most systems do not have a neutral wire, they only have the 2 hot wires, and a ground wire. The white wire should be connected to the ground wire. Intermatic should update their directions to cover this.