So my heat pump / air conditioner decided to continuously run the fan. Even when the heat/air was turned off. Well, I'm lucky enough that my next door neighbor runs a full time business repairing those sorts of things. In the meantime, I figured I'd like to make the fan stop running.

You'd think that would be simple... but no button on the thermostat affected it's desire to keep running... and it even kept going after I turned off all the power on the circuit breaker it was on.

Or, so I thought. I ended up just wondering over to chat with my neighbor, and discovered that heatpumps have their own circuitbreaker, outside. Probably so that they can be turned off, and when someone sticks their head in the unit, they don't have any fear that it'll get turned back on :-)

Well, an interesting point. But, you don't have the whole story :-)

Our neighbor was paid to install the head pump in the first place. I also paid him for his services when he came to check it out on Friday :-)

So yes, a lot of folks who are experts in fields do run into the issue of free advice, but that's not what happened here :-)