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Originally Posted by Kelbyat07
We tried looking for other possible problems with the AC but couldn't find anything. Then we had someone check it out for us and told us that a wire was burnt or something and that we needed a new whole unit. The weather is getting cooler so it's not as humid inside the house as it was last weekend.
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If its the compressor wires, it does happen... if its not too bad you can get kits made exactly for this with better connectors to reduce the amount of resistance a bad connection causes which can burn up wires.
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It sounds like the terminals were too far gone if the guy said you needed a whole new unit, if the terminals got really bad they can actually break the seal around the terminals and all the magic ice juice leaks out
