My 15 year old Bryant heat pump stopped blowing cool air and I assumed it was time for me to have to spend thousands of dollars getting it replaced, but I went outside and looked at it and the fan was not turning on consistently when the compressor started up. I checked it and it was a little difficult to turn so I figured the bearings were going out. So instead of calling an HVAC company to come out and tell me I needed to replace everything, I spent $85 on this motor which they indicated was a direct replacement for the GE motor in my unit. The motor came in a few days (early) and was packaged very nicely. It included a 7.5uF capacitor that was physically much smaller and looked a lot different than what was in there. After further research I learned that my unit has a 45/5uF dual capacitor with 3 terminals on the top whereas the capacitor that came with this motor was a single capacitor with 2 terminals. Installation of the motor was fairly easy, it took me just over an hour. It has 3 wires and a ground wire which I did not need since the unit would be grounded to the frame. One of the wires was a different color than my original motor (yellow instead of white) but that was easy to figure out. Although I knew you should replace the capacitor with the new motor, I decided to try it with my original capacitor since the one provided did not match. The unit started up just fine, but it appeared that the fan was turning slower that the original motor (no way to measure if it was 825 RPM’s, it just looked slower). I contacted the company and they said to use the supplied capacitor. I didn’t like that idea, so I went to Amazon and bought a dual capacitor with the same ratings as my compressor and the new fan motor (45/7.5uF). Installed it in about 20 minutes, started it up and it worked great -the fan turned at a much faster speed. So if I’m lucky I might get a few more years out of my Bryant heat pump. I’m very happy with this motor, especially the price.
Cjtime2000 
