Well, Q2's climate control display has been intermittant for a few weeks now, but it's finally gotten to the point that it was more dead than alive. Then this afternoon the a/c stopped working, although the fan and vent positions worked fine. I haven't heard of this much before - has anyone else's failed where the controller wouldn't turn the compressor on??
I took the controller out and found that flexing the board inside will make the display come back, and the compressor would turn on again.
I tried isolating a cold solder joint, and re-soldered most everything on the board (just reheated the solder joints) but it didn't cure it. Has anyone had any success fixing one of these things long term?
I think I'm just going to send it to Jerry Tucker and not mess with it anymore unless someone here has a suggestion. At least I can borrow the one out of "Q1" for now.
Heath
Dreaded A/C Display Problems
I recall a post (I thought it was yahoo, but couldn't find it) where someone described what they did to fix it... I'd discovered the flexing thing, but never the full fix- I used Jerry Tucker. The fact that it affects the system operation (and not just the display is a bit of a new twist)
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Re: Dreaded A/C Display Problems
Q451990 wrote:Well, Q2's climate control display has been intermittant for a few weeks now, but it's finally gotten to the point that it was more dead than alive. Then this afternoon the a/c stopped working, although the fan and vent positions worked fine. I haven't heard of this much before - has anyone else's failed where the controller wouldn't turn the compressor on??Heath
Hey Heath,
Mine will do the intermittent non functioning as well. I posted a while back that it seemed to be when the ambient temp sensor was reading goofy (falsely reading -50deg, etc) it would not turn on the compressor.
I've also found that the unit is less likely to work when the entire system is turned off, then turned on. If I leave it on vent all the time & turn the a/c on when needed, it cranks right up without the gremlins, so I leave it on vent all the time. If for some reason I have to turn it off, when I turn the vent back on and drive a couple of cycles (drive, shut down, return later) it will be ok.
