Ok, a lil background. I had my outdoor blower fan replaced a couple years ago and the tech said it would be good to replace the capacitor at the same time. No problems. Been working since no problem. NOW my outdoor cooling fan has trouble kick-starting. When my compressor goes off and the fan doesn't run, well, you all here prolly know what happens. My return gas line was hot almost hot enough to burn your hands and my circuit breaker tripped (thank god) I didn't lose any gas, I don't have a leak, but I when the fan has trouble kicking in i can get her going with a stick. This tells me it's a capacitor problem. It's supposed to give it an extra kick to start but sometimes it wont without the stick method. I'm pretty convinced its the capacitor, I went through every other troubleshooting first. In hindsight, I should of checked the stick method earlier, but the outdoor fins got a heck of a good cleaning when trying to figure out what was wrong. Here's my problem. I have 2 capacitors on this unit and was hoping one of you could identify the one that needs to be replaced for cold starting my ac. I'm a carpenter that understands OHMS law and am very confident doing small electrical jobs like adding plugs/lights. I have no problem changing breakers either. I also understand the dangers of the potential charge these capacitors can hold so I AM going to discharge the energy properly before attempting to replace. Here's my 2 capacitors. I'm guessing one is for the compressor and one is for the fan. which one should i replace
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