PackardC140A 1 Pole 40 Amp Contactor 24 Volt Coil Contactor

Got this installed about a week ago. I hesitated because the old one was working in a stuck-on condition, and didn't want to be without A/C while it was so hot, as I could just control the A/C at the thermostat. Looked slightly different (cover over relay) from previous one. But after doing a wire for wire replacement (noting the terminal markings), it worked fine. Air conditioner is again controlled by thermostat as it should be.I will update if anything changes any time soon.Ordered on August 1 and it arrived on August 2, from seller, HVAC Pros! Not bad at all! Thanks guys.[Review page asked my to rate "Sheerness". WHAT??? I gave 5 stars to "Overall rating", "Easy to install", and "Value for money", but left it blank for "Sheerness". Might as well ask me to rate "Sweetness"... ]

Working perfectly after 2 full ac seasons in a mid-Atlantic state. I am not an HVAC technician but an educated homeowner. Just made sure it could handle the 24 volt control circuit and had at least 30 amp at 230 volt capacity. It is 40 amp, all the better. My original contactor on my 20 year old Ruud condenser was looking burned at the edges of the points AND the compressor had chattered once or twice while starting which makes the house lights flicker. When I bought this contactor it was only $6.00 and I could not believe it could be any good. But since the old one still worked for a spare, I bought this one and installed it with some minor wire terminal modifications. The famous Packard name sounded good. Yes, made in China, but just about everything reasonable priced is today. If you buy a contactor made specifically for this Ruud, they are priced at $75+ here on Amazon and some of them are made in China too! With a 100% part markup and a minimum HVAC service call of $120 plus time around here you would be over $300 for this repair when it did fail. Plus you are going to be told you need a new condenser unit at 20 years old.2024 Summer still working on my 30 year old Rudd condenser but shut off and restarted twice early in the summer so I bought another same contactor. Twice the price but so is everything else. Call an HVAC company now where I live and it is “Sorry, you need a new system because that repair would be 1200 and we don’t recommend that because everything else is bad and we won’t guarantee the repair”. I also cleaned the coils from inside out with garden hose after removing fan assembly.

This contactor worked perfectly on my Lennox XC14 series 5 ton condenser. The only difference was that my original contactor had screw terminals on the top/output side and this one has screw down lugs. It was easy enough to clip off the ring connectors and insert the bare wire into the provided lug screw terminals.Replacing this was great preventative maintenance as my 7-8 year old contactor was badly pitted and a likely candidate for failure in the near future. It’s so much better to spend about 11 bucks here and do it yourself than to spend 200-300 dollars to make an urgent call to your local AC guy. Bottom line, if yours is more than 5 years old, it’s cheap preventative maintenance to replace it yourself now while it’s still working!I bought two so I’ll always have a backup on hand.Another side benefit is that the condenser runs quieter now. I didn’t realize how much noise the old contactor was making. I seriously thought that maybe the compressor was not running after I finished. Nope, it’s just quieter now!

I used this as a replacement for a contact on my air conditioning condensing unit and it worked well. The only thing different about this one and the one that I replaced is, the one I replaced has a button that you can push to test the contactor function. When the 24 volts is applied to the contactor, the button engages and you can tell that the contactor is supposed to be working. This contactor does not have that function. I am an extreme novice, so it is probably something that I should have recognized in the product description. Otherwise, it was exactly what I was expecting and it fit in the same spot, with the same screw holes as the original unit.