My 10 year old Omega Altise portable air conditioner just stop making cold air and making some weird noise, now just a fan that consume lot of electricity. As a ozbargainer I want to know my options. So my questions are:
Any help will be highly appreciated, I need to decide before the next heatwave comes.
Ye, but ozbargain part of me just had to ask, btw is $500+, it was on discount and I talk down some more.
My 10 year old Omega
Sounds like the end.
I have a portable air con lying around that a girl from Tinder gave me. I just checked and it's also an Omega Altise! It's a bit useless to me as I can't fit it to my windows. Let me know how you go with repair quotes and if you're interested in buying mine.
Donate it to op. Share the love.
Thanks but no thanks, god knows what kind the "love" is on it.
Who was the hot one and who needed cooling down ;)
Thanks, but not interested on the ac, only interested how you got an ac from a date, weird gift choice.
I guess thats what you get for doing a really good job
Uh no.
Unless they were a fan of you….
She wanted to get rid of it, so I took it off her. Don't worry, we didn't have sex on the air con.
OP take a black light with you
Can you hear the compressor working in it?
Would be worth it if you know a friend that knows electronics to test the control board, as it may only be simple problem.
If the compressor is seized though, its a throw away.
I repaired one that had a faulty mains transformer that powered the control circuitry, had the thermal fuse in the primary winding open.
Swapped it out with an equivalent I had, and its been keeping my wife cool for the last 5 years no problem!
if you had it for 10 years and lets say you paid $600 for it, a normal person would say you got your money worth
you can buy a brand new one with warranty for 2 years for $600, no repairer will give you a 2 year warranty even if you spend $300 on repairs.