Steve k

Hello I seam to be coming to this thread a bit late but have been running a genvex heat recovery unit for 24 years in a well insulated 4bed barn conversion to great effect. The only additional heating in the building is a heated towel radiator heated from the main buildings oil boiler. Over the years we have had to change the motor capacitors, only one was faulty but we changed both of them. We bought the capacitors from the now closed Maplins and the cost a couple of quid each. About 3 years ago the machine popped a fuse and after replacing the fuse I realised that one of the motors did not sound too healthy, thinking I was facing a disaster I took out the motor, the bearings were very rough. It took me about 10 minutes to remove the bearings finding that they were a standard off the shelf bearing. I had a new set of bearings within an hour and the machine was back together within 3 hours of the fuse popping. As the motor is the first thing that starts on start up and it is several minutes before the compressor starts this might be a good place to start. The machine has run faultlessly ever since. I suspect that both the replacement capacitors and bearings were of better quality than the originals but will not be able to confirm for another 17 years. On another note does anyone know where I can purchase another machine in the UK, possibly I would consider a second hand one even if it needed repair.