TL;DR - Hendel's hooked my capacitor up wrong and fried my fan motor. I showed picture proof of how the first tech wired it up wrong. They claim that I messed w the wiring and hooked it up wrong myself after the first tech left (?!). The tech hooked it up wrong to drum up business or by mistake, either way, total fail not making it right.
On Aug 27, Hendel's came out to help clear my garage air handler pan so it didn't leak. I had no issues with the actual AC functionality in any way. The tech removed debris from the drain pan, and charged a level II cleaning service. Great.
The tech did look over my outside heat pump and tested my capacitor. I declined any work on it and he put the capacitor connectors back together. Shortly after he leaves I'm not getting cold air and I see the heat pump fan is off. Turning the AC off and on sometimes spins it up, but it usually doesn't run for more than an hour. It seems like a pretty insane coincidence that something would die immediately after the tech is messing with the units wiring. I take a picture of how the Hendel's tech hooked the old dusty capacitor back up. Fan/brown, HERM/Yellow, Common/Blue.
After my AC had failed, I put another capacitor in and hook it up in the same way their tech had left it, using the pictures as reference. No change and the AC motor will still not stay on.
On Aug 31st, another Hendel's tech comes out to look at the unit as I was still without AC. He notes the fan motor is shorted. He looks at the schematics and notes that the HERM and Common lines on the capacitor are hooked up in REVERSE. The first tech that came out on August 27th hooked up the capacitor WRONG. This fried the motor and caused the unit to fail after he left.
If their techs took any picture of their work on the first visit, this would certainly show that it was hooked up in reverse. Hendel's has messages from me reporting the unit failing after their first tech worked on it, the pictures showing it hooked up incorrectly, AND their second tech seeing the capacitor hooked up incorrectly. I have requested any documentation or pictures Hendel's has that back up their claim that the capacitor was hooked up correctly, but they do not take pictures of their work and refuse to provide me any reason for why the unit was left hooked up wrong on the first visit.
Again they didn't take pictures of the unit after they hooked it up correctly on the 2nd visit, so I also attached one that I took of it done correctly. You can see that the Common and HERM connections are reversed from the way their first tech installed it. The correct way - Fan/brown, HERM/Blue, Common/Yellow.
I understand mistakes happen, and the 2nd tech to come out was stand up. The system is working great after proper wiring and a new $$$ fan motor. All they can do is a 15% discount on the $950 fan motor..tl That's a fan motor that should have never been needed. Hooking the capacitor up wrong gave the wrong voltage and phase shift to BOTH my fan motor and compressor. This mistake could have severely limited the life of my compressor also. They refuse to send me any documentation or pictures showing the first visit work was done correctly.
If you decide to take a risk with this company, TAKE BEFORE AND AFTER PICS OF ANY WORK THEY DO FOR YOU! Can't believe they don't do this themselves. If my compressor dies in the near future, I'll know why. read more