Recap; last week, we noticed the middle air not blowing cold air, so shut it down and figured it was 22 years old and may have to spend the bucks for a new one. Then a few days ago, we lost the cold air on the back air conditioner and now we have a real problem in 90 degree weather. The front air would not keep up. Called a friend of my son's who has an air conditioning business and he made the trip out yesterday to see if it was the start coil or compressor. To my dismay, he checked all out and found no issues with either, as it was the 2 of 3 soft starts that were installed 2 years ago. So now, we have all airs working great again and 2 soft starts that I will contact the supplier about a replacement. Has anyone else had this happen or if you do, you might look at the soft starts as an issue. Oh, both of the units that quit blowing cold air had heat pumps in them. Not in the front air, so not sure if that was an issue as well. When we replace these units at some time, will not be going with heat pumps, just straight air.
Joe
My story with my AC and soft starts. I had the back ac stop cooling it was the original I think. I had put soft starts on both ac's so I went to Nac and had the back ac replaced with a 15,000BTU unit and they installed the soft start and it did the same thing. so they put the new unit back without soft start and it has worked great. All unites have heat pumps.
Anyway expensive brain F on my part.
If you have soft starts be sure to check them before replacing the unit
Just my two cents
Ron
Update; just got off the phone with Bill the tech for Soft Starts and they will be sending me 2 new soft starts at no charge! Great customer service for sure.
Glad you got that squared away. Having no air conditioning and that kind of weather is no bueno.
I have a soft start in my front air conditioner, the air conditioner was new when I put it in 3 years ago. Haven't had any issues with it that I know of. Other than water coming through the air conditioning with rains really really hard but that is so rare.