ron2
Posted : 7/27/2008 5:43:58 PM
Just did a little reading.
On some newer compressors, there is a limit switch (with reset) that will shut off the compressor at a pre-determined temperature. They are often used in California. The idea of the limit switch is to prevent the compressor from overheating. Well, this is Texas and it's 100+ F right this very moment. So, the compressor should have a limit switch that allows it to keep running in this heat. How's about inviting that inspector to sit in your house for a while?
Did you know that some inspectors don't actually have to have experience in what they are expecting. I applied to become an electrical inspector for the city of Frisco. And learned that I could also be certified to inspect air conditioners if I took a class and a test, never having hammered on a piece of air duct in my life. Take another class and test and I could inspect plumbing, with my only plumbing experience fixing the toilet and sweating a hard copper drain line on a water heater.
There's no way to know, short of directly asking, how much ac service experience your inspector actually has. The inspector on the project I am on spent 30 years being a plumber.