I have Central Air and Heat , My Heat Pump (The Thing Out Side) started bouncing around and making one hell of a racket , I kicked it a few times and it pretty well calmed down , I went down town and paid $10 a peace for 5 40lb bags of salt , Came home and plowed and salted my driveway (Big Hill) got done and went back to the heat pump and it has smoke rolling out of it and the fans not turning .

How screwed am i ? could it just be the motor on this thing or am i going to get hosed big time when i call the HVAC guy ?

Does it ever end?

 

Your gonna get hosed. It is the motor in the fan, but you may have burnt up something else in the process if it was smoking like that. When mine did that, I got lucky and it was only the fan and motor, but it costed $650 to replace.

 

 

You'll probably spend $650 on electricity heating your house in the Emergency Mode this week alone with a Heat Pump... the emergency mode isn't too energy friendly.

BTW, if this were me I would have to chalk this up as a "stupid redneck trick." I am good about doing these kinds of things.

 

I have a wood burner and the heat pump still kicks on once in a while ... not so much now that its roasted tho

 

"kicking it" always helps

 

Get the model number, hp, rotation direction and frame number off the fan motor and call up your local Grainger. You can fix it yourself but remember to turn the POWER OFF.

 

Heres a guy that knows what hes talking about.

DM, have you looked at it? is it just the motor? Replacing the motor should be pretty easy. Make sure you check for power before you pull the wiring off.

 

I used to work for the guy who put it in , i gave him a call and left him a message hopefully he has one laying around or ill get one of them "Fell Off The Truck" Deals

 

The motors bad he had me turn it on emergency he said ill still have heat but the heat pump wont run , hes going to order me a motor tomarrow and he said it should be here tomarrow too , $100 - $150 WHEW i was thinking much much more than that . , As for the wood burner ive been running it full boar its 23* out , 74* upstairs and 85* in my den (where i am)