Help! - I am not a pro in ac units, but I am having some serious i...

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posted: September 8th, 2008 - 2:04pm

QUESTION:
I am not a pro in ac units, but I am having some serious issues. I have a Trane unit with heat pump outside.
Two months back before I started using the Air conditioner I scheduled a maintenance call who cleaned the coil in inside unit and filled the gas. A month later one day I just suddenly started getting normal air no cool air.
I scheduled the maintenance again with a different person, he also told me that the gas was a little empty. I am not sure if that was true. Now what's happening is that the Circuit breaker for the heat pump keeps getting trip at least once or twice a day, but there are now occasions that the air is just normal no coolness.
If the gas was low then I would never get cool air but now and then it does start throwing cool air. Please if you could guide me in which direction should I look? Scheduling maintenance call again and again is just money consuming and not giving me a solution.

ANSWER: You are in a tough spot the tech should come back out as he obviously missed something but if you want to you can look to see if the compressor is running at the times when you have no cooling this would be my guess but there are many reasons why a compressor would not run it could have been overcharged and going off on high pressure, it could be leaking down refrigerant running hot and shutting itself off or it could have a bad capacitor or a corroded wire.