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The rumors have been around for a while, but I've heard that J.P. Ward is out of the fitting business. I haven't heard any thing definite on the Ward Flex part of it. Anvil purchased Ward in the not to distant past and assured everyone there would be no changes, but one of the changes according to one of my wholesalers is that Anvil is reevaluating their pricing schedule. I believe that Grinnell which became or was purchased by Anvil purchased what was left of Stanley G Flagg years ago and scrapped everything. If this is true, I'm assuming (and I hope I'm incorrect on this) we are down to one domestic cast and malleable fitting manufacturer. Wondering what you all have heard.

Checking resistance (measuring Ohms) is always done with the item you're testing disconnected form anything else. If you have other stuff connected you will be measuring the resistance of all the connected items based on how they are connected (Parallel or in Series), and you don't want to know anything about the other stuff when measuring the windings of a compressor. You just want to measure the compressor motor's windings only

Disagree with this "doesn't matter". It does matter. Only check the compressor windings with nothing else connected.

check the resistance of the compressor windings, probably at the cap connections. should be under 50 ohms from c-r and c-s. probably under 10 ohms from c-r. could be a wire unplugged or burned somewhere in that rat's nest too.

Is that Turbo 200 dated? That has a 5 year warranty!!! You may not have a bad capacitor. Here is a great video on how to check the capacitor while it is operating

Read the Amps thru the CAP to the start winding of the motor or compressor Amps x 2652 = X

Read the Volts across Cap and divide X ÷ volts across the CAP

That will be the Microfarad (uf or mfd) reading of that Capacitor. I started to include that actual test on all the maintenance calls for every PSC motor and compressor. My Capacitor sales went up by about 18% and there were less "NO AC" service calls from agreement (or club member) equipment. Found the bad ones before they caused a problem. Replaced them with the "Better" 5 year warranty Turbo 200 and increased customer satisfaction and parts sales on maintenance calls. WIN WIN WIN for everyone. The company, the service tech, and the customer all win!

I have had good luck with the "titan hd" ones too.

@EdTheHeaterMan , all we carry is the Turbo 200, 200X, and Mini. There's too many to stock individuals. The big ones don't typically fit the original strap, so I always have a roll of vinyl Band Iron, or as some call, Plumbers Roll.

i'd probably use steel hanger iron rather than plastic. mars probably has clips for them too.

I think failed capacitors are one of the most common service calls there is now. Didn't used to be that way. Back in the day you very seldom found bad caps. The meters we had back then wouldn't check caps. You could use an analog ohmmeter but it was not a definitive test. Didn't have digital meters back then. If you had problems the service instructions would say "Substitute a known to be good capacitor"

They had a meter called an "Annie" which we had 1 in our shop. I don't know who "Annie" was but she new how to check capacitors. 🤣

They used to be made in uSA, GE, Sprague etc and they lasted and were twice the size of the ones you buy know and were filled with good old PCBs

Maybe that's why they worked