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Posted on Jun 09, 2008

Fan not turning, but motor is humming - Hampton Bay HBLG5004 Air Conditioner

  • birchmeadow1 Jul 10, 2008

    fan not turning, but motor is humming ,I have oiled the shaft on the motor,it will turn if I spin it to get it started. Is the motor shot?

  • Anonymous Aug 01, 2008

    shaft is stuck

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I would deffinatly change the Capacitor. They are normally a dual run type. One terminal runs the fan motor, the other runs HERM or compressor & C terminal is the common for both. Capacitor can be either round or oval if space permits, but make sure the UF numbers & VAC numbers are the same. You can if you must go higher on the VAC number, but not lower. But is best to get exact values. Fan motors with oiled clean moving shaft that hum are either burnt out capacitor or fan motor winding is bad if capacitor change does not work. Avg cap. price is Aprox $16-$20.00.

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Had this problem....you need new fan motor if capacitor is good...motor is overheating and the safety is kicking it off...replace

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Might want to check the fan motor start capacitor

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SOURCE: Compressor hums but fan not turning. Pushed fan to

cap most likley

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  • Posted on Jan 13, 2009

SOURCE: FAN MOTOR

The run capacitor is probably bad. The run capacitor is usually a two part component. One part serves the fan and one part serves the compressor. Sometimes when they fail the fan will even run backwards instead of just stalling. Replace it.

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