5 MFD AC Capacitor, 5uF ±5% 370VAC/440 Volt Oval Run Start Capacitor for Air Conditioner Condenser Straight Cool or AC Motor and Fan Starting or Heat Pump Air Conditioner

Find your HVAC capacitor...buy one you cheapskate! keep it next to your breaker box where you'll remember it...save about $500 in service call repairs the next time your ac goes out

Been having issues w/condenser fan starting up properly. Motor, starting capacitor or maybe both. Sometimes no prob other times turn slow and finally catch. Ordered the starting capacitor and it came as promised within a few days.So, this morning I have a roast in the crockpot since 1:30am, make coffee, gallon of tea walk in the back w/reel push mower & cut up some grass. I've been coasting on the AC for the last 4-5 days. Cool nights I'm opening everything up then shutting down at 8am.Over the last ten days-two weeks on occasions I'd fire up the ac at 8am for an hour-90 minutes straight to take out the moisture bring down temp to 65* then shut it off and coast till the evening & start the fresh cool air cycle all over again. It only had to start once until I shut it off.Today I turn on the ac run out to check & the fan is sitting there humming. Shut it down take a metal yardstick to make sure the motor isn't locked-up. The starting capacitor has been sitting on the table for several days. I take it outside yank the old install the new & bada-boom bada-bing the fan fires up when I turn on the ac.For me this is the cheap way to test if it's the motor or the start capacitor. Since I had the motor replaced a few years back I made sure, w/large magnifying glass, to read the specs off the motor. Insuring that 10Mfd was the properly sized capacitor for that motor.Be careful around start capacitors. They store high voltage to kick the fan in the pants to fire it up. They are not particular and will kick you in the pants firing you up should you become careless around the two terminals. Even w/power off they store voltage.

My gas furnace made a strange sound and wouldn't run. On a lark, I did some Internet searches being careful to describe exactly what was happening. I learned that the sound I described was the blower motor trying to start but was failing because the start capacitor, which provides a short burst of electricity at startup, was burned out. I was nervous but went to the furnace, found the start capacitor and noted its specifications. This part arrived next day via Prime and was easy to install. Wires connect via blade connectors so tools weren't required. My furnace worked! I wouldn't try a repair more difficult than this but am happy to have a $20 furnace repair this time.

Works good

I needed to repair an old A/C unit for a relative.The cap in it had failed and motor just sat still and hummed. I bought this and put it in and it works great.So why 4 stars instead of 5? I am just not certain of the longevity for it. I would recommend but, but I will update in 10-15 years if it is still running... :)

The fan on my A/C condenser simply stopped but the condenser coil was humming. My A/C guy said it sounded like a capacitor issue, so I opened the unit’s panel and saw one of two capacitors were slightly bubbled out on top. It was a 370 V, but reading showed me 440 V is a better and fully compatible option, as long as I kept the microfarads the exact same (higher voltage capacitors can handle more motor feedback and appear to be better for whatever else is fed to it). I ordered it and it came in the next day.I put on waterproof rubber gloves and did the safe things to short the connector, all after flipping off the circuit breaker. Then replaced the leads and put electrical tape back around the connections, then put the panels back in place and turned on the breaker, and it worked as soon as I turned on the A/C inside the house, again.For $10, it was a great learning experience, and we were only without the A/C about a day and a half.This capacitor even kept the same +/- 5% tolerance our prior one did.I would definitely get this again.

Match up the numbers on your existing AC unit and the capacitor numbers. Easy to remove the old and install the new.They have functioned perfectly.

Very good function and quality. Highly recommendable.