Central Air

[DGFoster]

My central air was put in in 1996 and the it is a Bryant,my question is do you guys cover yours in the winter?

I have never covered it yet because the place who installed it says covering them causes moisture,but when I started it up today it came on but the fan on top of the unit would not spin,but I went out and pushed it with a stick and it broke loose and would spin freely.

It is working great now but I am wondering if I should cover it next winter?



What do you guys do??



Thanks

 

[klenger]

I've never covered ours. The A/C for our current house is a heat pump, so we use it year round. You do want to make sure that it doesn't have a bunch of leaves and crap in it.

 

[99guy]

You might consider just covering the top, help keep leaves out but will let air circulate to prevent condensation in the off season. If that fan motor won’t start a second time you might have a bad capacitor.

 

[DGFoster]

Ok thanks guys,I guess there is a place to oil the fan motor,I will check that in the morning. . Thanks again

 

[jponder]

well the good news is fan motors are cheap and easy to change same thing with fan motor capacitor.

 

[Extreme1]

Our has been covered every year since it was installed. In 1979 or so. No problems. We are getting a new one (and furnace) this summer.