Wife says, ” Come look at the Air Conditioner , it don’t see right ” I go, fan not turning. Check breakers to no avail. Hmmmmmmm say to her, ” Bad Fan motor , I’ll call Donnie.

Call Donnie and talk to his lovely wife and we catch up on things as both are great friends.

Set up went down:  But, had two choices. One very easy > sleep in the sewing room with it's ac, queen bed, bathroom. Or Put together this little air conditioner Bren bought many years ago so we could run it off a generator if necessary but never got to be necessary. Well, decided to get it out of the box it's been sitting in for about 16 or so years and see what happens. Installed in the bedroom window and working great to keep that little 11 X 13 foot room cool.  ;-)
LOL and a fan from the shop in my room till bed time.  ;-)

Today: Donnie and crew show up to check out fan and rest of unit. Getting strange readings on the volt meter. Shut off all breakers, Still happening. Cut off the main and really start having problems with noise coming from breaker when attempting to activate others. Hmmmmmmmm.

Donnie and crew get new motor installed and can’t test due to breaker problem. Donnie gets ahold of Entergy and after about 6 attempts finally get a person instead of Auto Answer. Should be here in an hour or so.

Then Donnie and crew leave, Call Crochet Electrical and get them on the way for the breaker. The crew show and I show them the happenings, Off they go to see if can find a matching breaker.

 Entergy guy gets here and show him the problem of why needing the meter disconnected. Done deal, Say call about 30 mins before needed so then can get here faster. ;-) Off he goes.

1 PM and in a bit Crochet Electrical get back and make sure breaker will work, Yes, Start changing it out and everything frozen big time. But team work gets it done.

I get on the phone back to Entergy and after 3 people was told to get an inspection permit. Call Fire Dept Inspect gal, Get instruction on what was needed so off to the FD and get a permit for 50 bucks and call the City’s Inspector for inspection on breaker. About 1.5 hrs and he gets here and I show him what’s happening. No problem, A red sticker saying approved inspection and he calls Entergy to let them know all is good.

5PM Entergy comes and says I need to shut off all breakers, Hmmmmmm All breakrs in the box below the meter. He shows me NO, the original house wiring went from the meter straight to a breaker box in the bed room and I had forgot about that. Done deal and meter installed and Entergy gone.

Start turning things on one by one. AC finally does it’s delay time and come on and gunning fine fine .

Chill time.

After an hour, wife says it’s cold in the bed room. LOL. So turn up the thermostat. She wanted to make sure it was okay . Done deal. LOL Now, for the bills to coming in from out exciting and costly day.

Just very happy it was not near a weekend and I knew people in the trades. And learned to go around Entergy if possible to save lots of time and a little money.