[lostin60s]

I have a20 yr. old Rheem. Yesterday I opened it up and cleaned the coils. I shut off furnace and pulled the disconnect. I put it together again and the compressor won't start. I have 238 V across the black and white terminals and 228 V across the capacitor and the white at the compressor . The compressor just hums, but won't start. If I have freon, do I assume a dead compressor? Could I have hurt it? I don't think so. Even if I hooked the compressor to the fan capaciter, at worst it would draw waay to many amps, and pop a breaker. Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

 

[hvaclover]

either a run cap or comp is gone.

 

[hennyh]

Test the run and start caps. They fail much more frequently then compressors, are easy to test and relatively inexpensive to buy.

 

[HvacWiz]

And if the cap tests fine then you can try a hard start kit to try to get it going.