Everything was going great...getting done everything I wanted to get done.....then.....about 8:15 pm, hubby & I start smelling what smells like wires burning....oh no!!! So we shut off the fans and A/C. The A/C fan motor keeps going!! That's odd!!! Check the breakers, shut the A/C breakers off, the fan STILL going. Shut the heater breakers off, and everything shut off...finally. So......in a panic, I call our A/C guy....poor fella, he's eating supper in a restaurant somewhere. He says he'll come by....hopefully be here between 9:30 & 9:45 (it's 9:20 now). We talk on the phone about possibilities. That tray that holds the condensation from the coils.....apparently it didn't drain properly and water spilled over and touched fan motor wires below. Now this is odd, because I CHECKED this not 2 weeks ago & it was draining FINE!!! PLUS.....2 or 3 times a year, I flush the thing with a 50/50 combo of bleach & water, because gunk builds up, and did it about 3 months ago, I'd say. So he suggests flushing the pipe where the water drips out, outside. So hubby & I hooked up the hose and flushed it from the outside up about 8 times, and gunk came out and it started draining. I'm almost out of bleach, so I then flushed the inside tray with 2 bottles of peroxide and a small cup of 50/50 bleach-water, followed by several cups of water. The drain looks fine now, but he's still coming by because of the burning wires smell. We want to make sure no lasting damage was done......Funny thing, he's on the schedule to come by on Monday anyway, just to check over the system......guess it needs checking!!!
Grateful for temp in the 70s right now, with cloudiness and some light rain....windows open and fans going....very tolerable.