Where would I get a 240V to 24V, 40VA transformer for air cond.?

[Robert Munyer]

Air conditioner wouldn't turn on. Voltmeter eventually led to this
transformer which was getting 240V in, producing 0V out. Where would
I go to get a replacement?

Thanks,

-- Robert

[Brian Bartholomew]

There is a Johnstone Supply next to the Sonny's on Waldo road.
I would try Lowe's or Home Depot first, if they had it they would be cheaper.

Brian

[Frank]

I may have one. Johnstone supply will have it but they don't' sell to the general public. Is this the AC at the space? Amazon is another possibility.

Frank

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[Eddie Reid]

Johnstone will sell to individual i buy my air filters there.

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[Brian Bartholomew]

About 2003 I went to Johnstone to buy a replacement cap for a
microwave. The sales counter guy asked me if I had an account. I
said will you take this? and put a $20 on the counter. After some
huffing and puffing so the store could say it was trying to support
trade guild exclusivity, they did in fact find their way to selling me
something for cash. As compared to, the propane parts store next to
Hugo and Sons, which did ask me for my propane union card. They went
out of business years ago, when building propane forge burners was all
the fashion.

Cartels don't work with more than a few members, somebody defects for
the advantage. Mainstream media concentrated into six owners and one
FCC radio frequency licensing produces strategically uniform results,
but a million bloggers say whatever they want.

Brian

[Joseph DiPietro]

If a million bloggers blogging for a million years will produce the complete works of William Shakespeare, how long will it take for one blogger to say something worth reading?

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[Robert Munyer]

Frank wrote:

> I may have one. Johnstone supply will have it but they don't' sell to
> the general public. Is this the AC at the space? Amazon is another
> possibility.

Thanks. No, it's just my central air at home.

I was very surprised to find that the indoor logic circuitry is powered
by a transformer that's concealed in the outdoor fan/coil unit. I would
have found it much faster if I hadn't had a preconceived expectation that
the transformer would be indoors somewhere. I even crawled around in the
attic looking for it, before I thought to look inside the outdoor unit.

-- Robert

[Robert Munyer]

> Cartels don't work with more than a few members, somebody defects for
> the advantage. Mainstream media concentrated into six owners and one
> FCC radio frequency licensing produces strategically uniform results,
> but a million bloggers say whatever they want.
>
> Brian

Ah, but what if the ownership of the ISPs of the _readers_ of your
1,000,000 bloggers is just as consolidated as mainstream media?

And what if the FCC commissioner kills network neutrality so the
last-mile oligopoly can be leveraged into a hosting oligopoly?

Your 1,000,000 bloggers end up being forced to choose from among a
very small number of "mainstream" blog hosting providers, if they want
their blogs to be accessible to ordinary readers who have ordinary
residential Internet service.

FCC enforcement of network neutrality is recent, and even the phrase
"network neutrality" is fairly recent, but the _concept_ goes all the
way back. During the Reagan/Bush/Clinton/Bush/Obama1 administrations
we had de-facto net neutrality without FCC enforcement, because the
people who could have profited from violating it mostly chose not to.

I suspect that they mostly refrained from violating network neutrality
_because_ they were afraid of FCC regulation. With an FCC commissioner
who is unabashedly extremely pro-telcom-megacorp and anti-everyone-else,
I doubt that they will continue to refrain.

-- Robert

[Robert Munyer]

Sorry, I meant "chairman" where I wrote "commissioner".

-- Robert

[Joseph DiPietro]

Robert, You're assuming the FCC has far more power than it has. 

What happened is the Obama administration wanted a Net neutrality law but Congress wouldn't create one. Obama then issued an executive order that created a 'virtual' Net neutrality law and the FCC implemented rules to enforce the order. The Trump administration rescinded the Executive order claiming that it was inappropriate to bypass Congress. The FCC no longer had a basis for the Net neutrality rules so they removed them.

Without the politics of wether or not such a law is needed, this is what I understand went on. So blame Congress if you believe we need Net neutrality since creating laws is their responsibility.

On Tue, Feb 27, 2018, 6:55 PM Robert Munyer <20756...@munyer.com> wrote:

Sorry, I meant "chairman" where I wrote "commissioner".

-- Robert

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[Robert Munyer]

I replaced the thermostat with a bunch of patch cords so I
could test each wire individually, and found the real problem:

a short in the tiny solenoid coil that pulls/pushes the freon
flow reverser valve, to go from "heating" to "cooling" mode.

If I could remove the coil I could easily rewind it with new
magnet wire, but I'm afraid I might accidentally release the
magic vapor while trying to remove the coil!

-- Robert

[Brian Bartholomew]

Google makes it look like some models have the coils inside the sealed container,
and some coils are external and presumably sending flux through a copper tube wall.

The sealed ones look expensive to replace. Does yours have an external coil?

Brian