[Bill]

Story time:

My air conditioners are 24 years old. Each Summer, I wonder, is this the year? A few years ago, I had to replace the fan on one of the outdoor condensers. For some reason, the new fan had a lot more complicated wiring scheme than the old one, and the guy who installed it zip tied the wires from the fan motor to the grating on the top of the unit, to run them out of the way of the fan blade. Well, the unit kicks on and I hear.....something expensive. Crap.

Go out and looked at it, the tie strap holding the wires had broken, and the wires were hanging down just enough for one of the wire nuts to contact the fan blade as it was running . I caught it in time that nothing was really damaged. One new tie strap later and we're good.