@farmerman,
farmerman wrote:Ive installed one of those energy misers on my AC so that the power company can reduce the use of my compressor for brief periods during peak use.
funny you'd mention that, we had a thermostat installed (free of charge) that does the same thing, the guy came in February, installed it and while he was hooking it up, he alerted us to the fact that some insulation on the inside of the blower unit had come loose and was getting sucked up against the side of the blower, he pulled it out and said, "this kind of thing will burn out your motor" (and boy was he right, don't know how long the motor was under strain from the constricted air flow, but it finally gave up)
move ahead to the summer and we turn on the air, and we get nothing, call our heating cooling guy, he comes out, turns out the guy who hooked up the thermostat had wired the cooling wrong, wired correctly the the A/C unit was working fine (until the blower motor finally died)