Alright guys, it's me again and I have an update on my heat pump problem. A few days ago I posted that my outdoor fan was not running and I wanted some help with that problem. First of all, I am running a York heat pump, according to our York man, it is a 2 1/2 ton system about 11 years old (installed in 1994) Now, the outdoor fan wasn't running and after the heat was on awhile, it would start blowing cooler air and the EM Heat light would begin flashing. My father removed the outdoor fan motor and took it to a place to have it tested. It is also the nearest place to purchase new fan motors. Well, the fan blade was frozen tight onto the motor shaft and my father couldn't get it off. He even tried penetrating oil to loosen it, but no go, so he had to take the motor, blade and all, to have it checked. They claimed the motor was working fine, although they couldn't turn it up to full power since the blade was on there and they didn't have anything to hold the unit in place with the blade spinning, but they did check it to see that it worked. We came on back and put the fan motor back in place, and removed the capacitor and took it up to our local York person to have it checked. He checked it and said it wasn't as good as he'd like for it to be, so he gave us another capacitor and checked it before we left with it. He said it was a good capacitor. Now I don't know if this matters or not, but the capacitor was smaller (sizewise) than the one we took up there, but I am assuming it was the same 'kind' of capacitor (he said it was a 10, I don't know if this is measured in amperes, or volts, or what) Well we put this new capacitor on and still...no fan. To be honest, I am not really sure that the compressor is kicking on either. We turned the unit on in the house, and went outside and kicked the breaker on, and the unit starts up (blower motor and everything) and we hear a click noise down around the compressor, but I don't think it kicks in. Would the fact the fan isn't kicking on not allow the compressor to kick on? Could the fan motor still be bad, even though it checked out? If not the fan motor, and not the capacitor, what else could the problem be? I asked the York guy if he thought it might be the compressor, and he said it was doubtful. He said he had never had to replace a compressor on one of those particular units. Your help is invaluable. Thanks again.

Hi, I'm having a problem with our heating unit. It heats the house just fine - reaches the desired tempature (72) and the blowers kick off and no air comes out the vents. This is when the trouble seems to start though. Hot air seeps from the return air vent - it doesnt blow out with force, it just comes out. Also the unit is located under the house and the floor above the unit gets hot. All of the extra heat causs the tempature to rise as high as 85 degrees making the house miserable. It has never done this in prevoius winters, so I'm really confused as to what's going on under there. Any ideas?