Broke nursing student, 3 kids, dad is away at work and our AC broke. This worked like a charm!! Thank you so much for saving us!

It took me about 20 minutes to install it on my own. As long as you can lift it out the box and up into position you’re good. I did have to break the box to get it out as it was a snug fit. I followed the installation video on you tube which was a big help. I added this to support central air in my house that was struggling upstairs because of my house design. Lovely unit. Very quiet kzread.infoUgkx_hHgTlzH3uk31Fe2RVS3xEbXHGaN_z5T and looks sharp. Had it in a couple of weeks and so far so good. It’s cooling a bedroom about 25ft X 15 no problem at all.

Dude, I just did this and it freaking worked!!! Very impressed! Thank you for all the leg work.

God bless you!!! You have literally saved my family from over heating. I spent $500 on the air conditioner last year. But I can’t find the receipt so they won’t cover it under the warranty. I was scared to cut wires but figured it was either risk it or throw it away. I owe you a huge thank you!!!❤❤

Mine literally just died as well, I did the trick you showed us & it works like a charm again. I think if I got 2.5yrs out of this unit it was alot. I will NEVER AGAIN, buy another GE AC! The old addage, fool me once applies. Anyway I'm not buying another ac until next summer, anyone have any thoughts on a GOOD, REPUTABLE, brand? One that will last longer than 2yrs lol. And it certainly does NOT need, to have wifi. At the time I bought it, it was all they seemed to have. Thank You in advance & stay safe, health, and above all else, Happy!

I'm a disabled widow and you just saved me $%00.00. Thank you for this! I managed to do it! Took me a long time, but I have cold air blowing in my kitchen! God bless you.

Single mom here, you just saved me some much anticipated financial stress!!!! Thank you for sharing! Followed instructions and now have air!!

@chevyingersoll9174

Ай бұрын

Same here

Thank you soo much im a single mom who really didn’t know what to do I live in Florida I was so stressed about my unit doing that your video really saved my life thank you again

Just did this for my Wife's Shop A/C and got it working again! Thank you So Much!

Thank you so much! My 8000 BTU was two months over warranty as soon as I pulled the circuit board out it was covered in corrosion you nailed it! Thank you for saving me money!

101 here in Texas and the AC went out at 8pm. Got this done in less than 15 minutes and it's working great. Thanks a lot.

I just want to thank you so much for this video and for saving me $300-$400. I was so close to trashing this thing and swearing off GE products forever. Ill probably never buy GE again, but my AC works!!!!!!! Thanks again for the great tutorial!

Just want to say this fix works on AHC08LYW2 as well!!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 Thank you for this

You saved our lives this summer thank you !!!!

This saved me today. The unit randomly stopped, and this quick fix got me going. Thanks!!

You have no idea how much I valued this tutorial. I arrived from work on a Friday, the air conditioner with error 88 and no possibility of receiving a technician until Saturday of next week. I live in the Caribbean, where air conditioning is a necessity and not a luxury. Thanks to your instructions, I managed to get it working and I will have a nice week, until a AC tecnician repairs it properly. Thanks and blessings!

@RyanG13

9 ай бұрын

Hopefully by cutting those wires, they don't tell you that you voided out the warranty :/

@leemz3407

7 ай бұрын

Real talk. From the Virgin Islands I just did this 😂

Just found this AC unit on the curb outside my apartment complex, super clean and new looking but I assumed it was broken somehow. The issue you described is exactly what’s happening to this unit, so I’m going to try out this solution and hopefully have a nice free AC unit!! Thank you! **EDIT** it WORKED!! Thank you so very much. I’m no electrician and your instructions were very easy to follow. I had one AC unit for a 2 bedroom apartment, so now I will be able to enjoy the summer temps with this second repaired unit. THANK YOU again

My guy!!! I couldn’t believe my 7 month old ac went nuts. I did this and I’m in my cold room! Thank you!!!!😂❤

Thank you!! This worked like a charm and will get us through the rest of summer. Appreciate you!

We’re do we sign for a class action lawsuit?

@jdmkos973

2 ай бұрын

For real. I had mine for only 7 months before this went bad

@supervixen404

11 күн бұрын

@@jdmkos973Had 3 of them in 3 years. Breaks down every June the same way. Wish someone else had an 8000 BTU so I wouldn’t have to buy this one anymore.

@brandonclark1634

10 күн бұрын

I just had two AKLK14AA GE units go bad at the same time these cost us $600 each. Same issue controller board going crazy. Not to mention the amount of mold these things get all over the styrofoam. I will NEVER buy another GE product after this fiasco.Horrible products, horrible support. I was going to purchase new controller boards but guess what!? They don't even sell them anywhere! I talked to support and they said "it's not cost effective to sell these for us". HAHAHA what a joke. Anyways I'm going to try this soloution when I get home... but it's nto going to be cost effective for us since the unit will never be able to turn off by itself... so now our electric bill will be through the roof. Can't control temps... I really really wish we could sue them for this.

This literally worked, i have a different model but its all the same. I was about to buy another one. i just saved almost 400! Thank you so much!!! Amazing something so simple to fix. Thank god for KZread!! ❤

My MAN !! BIG Appreciation! we had thunderstorms for days in a row. I live in a 20 unit loft and the power went out for a few.. KNOCKING out the central air system and my personal air conditioner. wow.. Like You Said " THANK YOU GOD..! worked like you said it would..! I usually don't send comments..!! I'll keep it short..! You The Man.. Bless & Safe.

Well my air conditioner is now working you have no idea how thankful I am for this video ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ you are the man 💯

Can confirm. I just did this to my GEWindow unit after having the same panel light glitching. I have no remaining warranty nor the funds to repair my unit. So, I thought, what's the worst that could happen??? Thanks! You saved us.

Thank you!!! ****EDIT**** You just saved me a lot of money.

We had ours a little over a year and it went one monther over the warenty date before giving out. This trick was a blessing because we cant afford a new window unit and its a hot alabama july. Its definitely not the first thing you want to do, but its a god sent trick if you have to have it. Remember. If the wife is hot and unhappy, no one is happy

It worked no one wanted to work on the AC. Thanks for the video working well so far. Took me less than 10 mins.

BEWARE- This will make your AC work but you will have no indication on temp, mode, speed, nor Wi-Fi. Because of this do a process of elimination on cutting the wires to find the fault, one wire at a time. Or at least, before doing this save your settings before cutting all the wires mentioned in this video bc you definitely can’t change them after. Thank you for posting this! I now have a working AC blowing cold air on a hot day in SoCal.

Just want to say thank you so much I just did this to my air conditioner that I thought was done for and it immediately turned on and started blowing cold air much needed it is so hot in our house with temps reaching uper 90s today and through the next week. Thank you again 🙏🙌🙌🙌🙌 Praise you!

This worked exceedingly, thank you so much for posting

You are awesome!! We have ac again!!! Dude you rule!!

Good job thanks you sure saved me!! It showed 108* in my car when I pulled up at home and walk in to ac not on!! I’m doing this now!! Checked for a new board $250 not for a 12 year old ac that I can buy a new ac for $500

I have to work with GE equipment at a hospital and they design things to "break" so you pay them to come and fix them and I always avoid GE for this reason, however 1 summer we had to buy a new AC unit and the GE one was the only one available and 2-3 years later it does this and I knew there had to be a work around because the fan and condenser would start, it was just some "safety" feature stopping it. Thank you so much for sharing!!! If any1 else reads this, for the future if you have an AC that wont go colder than what your aloud to set it, there is a wire going to the front of the grill when you look under the filter and if you move the end of that wire, its a sensor and try to shove it out the window, boom it will always run cold XD.

@UNCHND

11 ай бұрын

Thank you 😊

Ty bud I am on a boat and this saved us Alabama heat is no joke ty again

Just did it. Works great

Thank you so very much for sharing this video! It saved me from 30 minutes plus on the phone, stress and money!!

You my friend are a genius if you figured this out,,thanks so much..

Well DAMN!!!!!! A tutorial that actually works.... Thanks Mr. Man.... We just had a storm come threw.. Feeling that cool air now boss... Thx again

it worked, so far so good. Thanks so much !

Im down in New Orleans heat. I just did mine today. Thank you

I greatly appreciate the help. It was spot on and cooling.

Thanks so much for this my ac just turned off and showing the 88 error .. instead of me paying for another unit this helps a lot

You are awesome, saved me $700 mine was a 25k btu ge and had only gotten 2 summers out of it when this happened.

Works with QHNG08AAW1 HAIER THANK U BOSS!!! Let’s goooooo ❤

Thanks this helped relieve the heat untill the new board arrived. I paid $39 bucks and installed in 15min. I also insulated around cover for extra moisture barrier.

@hansmeisel7569

15 күн бұрын

where did you order it from?

@tiffknight4107

2 күн бұрын

Can you share where did you order your replacement from? Thanks

@MuntzDesigns

2 күн бұрын

Can you show us how you replaced the board?

It's alive!!!!!!! Ty for the knowledge.

Very helpful video. Thank you very much

Wow when I called GE they made it sound like this was a rare occurrence. Now I see so many others. They know this is an issue, it's ridiculous we all go caught and stuck with this issue smh. Thanks Great video!!!

@RyanG13

9 ай бұрын

I'll never buy another GE again! They know good & well that there are issues with this unit! That's why they try to rip you off by forcing you to buy an extended warranty. Lesson learned here though. Best of luck with yours.

IT REALLY WORKS THANK YOU SO MUCH

Thank you so much this worked for me I feel so grateful for your video thank you for sharing

Greatly appreciated i did mines step by step and it worked

Thank you so much ! Work perfect 👍

Perfect. New board on order. Thank you.

@zinkoda4766

9 ай бұрын

Where did u order a new board??

@hqdefault

7 ай бұрын

@@zinkoda4766 With the air conditioner model number and the keywords 'control board' might appear some places on Google.

Appreciate this video so much

All you had to do is give the control board 3 or 4 chops going down the front panel. YES… IT WORKS!!!

Nice work around. A country boy can survive.

Can confirm it works it just automatically puts it on high cool too

Thank you so much for your video about GE window air conditioner, even though my model was alittle different numbers than yours I hooked it up like you said and it started right up running on high and very cold God bless you my brother and I Thank my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ for you ,I had all but given up on my unit ever working again then my son told me to check on u tube and there you was

Thank you for the video

Brand new AC , board fails in two summers. This did get me back online.

Thank u for this!!

I can confirm this worked for me

I was able to repair by replacing the UI Board. Had to order replacement part for $40ish from GE website. Ordered from GE directly to make sure the part was right. Came with new UI Board including plastic shell and wires to connect. Just had to connect the other end of the rainbow wire into the unit itself by unscrewing the inner unit from the shell to get access to the area. Kinda PITA, was a small space. Also sucks to have to spend money on a part after only owning the AC for two years. But better than $600+ for a new 18,000 BTU AC.

@jtstacey83

Жыл бұрын

please post the link

@1blisslife

11 ай бұрын

If you bought a new board from GE... I'd say... insulate the new board if moisture caused the problem to being with on the old board so that this problem won't repeat itself again on you. From just plain Jane foam or silica packets if you've got that laying around. I'm sure there's many ways to do it. Cheers

@andrewb220

10 ай бұрын

POST THE LINK

Thank you so much for the video

Thank you sir, his work

Worked for me bruh thanks a lot

I just had the same problem, just stopped working, light blinking,only would start and run for 2 seconds.. THIS WORKS!!!!! I did mine today,awsome. One thing ,I had trouble getting front cover off, has three tabs on the top,I couldn't get them to let go so they broke off. Just put a piece of tape on the cover on top and screws on side and its fine... note ,I use geeni cameras ,lights and wall plugs .this all works from my phone. I plugged the cord into a geeni wall outlet plug ,now I can turn the ac unit on and off with my phone. It works great!! You can get the outlet plug ins at harbor freight.

@tommynewton2498

10 ай бұрын

Ps.. I had this unit for 3 years,had bought the extended warranty for 69 dollars, still had one year left. The warranty place just sent me a gift card to lowes for 600 bucks...and I fixed it for free thanks to this video...

Thank you thank you thank you

Sir Thank you , awesome take care

MY MAN 🔥🔥🔥

Thanks for the video. Like many others i had the same problem and your video was a life saver. I am curious if you have had any problems with the unit since you did this fix??

Just had a power surge and it fried the control board so I followed your instructions in your video and it works. I contacted GE and was told they don't supply the control board, can you believe that? Any way I had an extended warranty and I am getting a replacement unit (not GE for sure) in a few days. Thank you again for your instructional video.

Class action lawsuit should really be a thing for these..we just bought one a week ago, same issue occuring. We only run it at night since no one is home during the day. Will work if we keep it on medium speed and ECO mode only :/ beyond pissed..

@RyanG13

9 ай бұрын

I agree 1 million % with you, but sadly they'll just say "I'm sorry Mr./Mrs. Smith, but had you purchased the $500 extended warranty, that we sent you in your e-mail at least 10x's, you wouldn't have had a problem." Maybe if I were rich I would've gone for it lol.

Works on Haier A/C units also👍

Freaking amazing thanks have no display but it works

Do I need to have a fire extinguisher in the room incase or is is safe..this method wont start a fire? Just curious

worked like a charm!

It worked ❤❤❤

GE AHY08LZW1 -I got to my 3rd Summer b4 I had to bypass the circuit board. But you can use a smart plug and Alexa to turn on and Off

Muchas gracias me ahorre 500 dolares pense que no tenia solucion

@gearlyanngutierrez7907

7 ай бұрын

Te enfría bien?

Ours went out the same way. Not even very old and this ac unit was extremely expensive.

Can u still control the unit or is it on high all the time

I was really excited to try this. I had a ge repair person come out but they said it couldn't be fixed. So I thought why not give this a try. But after doing this, my compressor doesn't run continuously. It runs for 9 minutes, then turns off for 15 minutes so any cooling that happened goes away. Very sad this didn't work

@thegergster

8 ай бұрын

Upload a video of the board you chopped out. Show what kind of damage it has.

What color wires do I connect for low cool

Which color wire is for high speed?

Have you tried using a Outlet thermostat you plug it into the outlet and then you plug the air conditioner into it

@186ceegee

3 ай бұрын

Thank you! I just ordered mine! Excellent!!! Thanks again for this comment!

This works well except when you can’t control the temp to shut off and on, the unit freezes up like every hour and you have to unplug and wait for it to thaw out.

I got mine turned on but it's only warm air blowing out....any way to fix that? It was cold air coming out when I first plugged it in but when I put the unit back in and turned it on then that's when it started blowing out warm air....

What temp does it stay on??

I have a brand new unit that I hard wired like this but I’m im going to buy a cheap thermostat like the ones that run a central unit and wire it in to those little cables to control temp and fan.

@Cmorbutts

7 күн бұрын

Did this work?

Unfortunately this didn't work for the AKLK14AAG1 14,000 BTU unit. The connector only has 4 wires Yellow, Red, Purple, and White. I tried splicing them all together and the unit will not come on at all. I also tried just splicing Red, White, Yellow together and nothing. I'm guessing the absence of the black wire is the reason. Anyone know if there's a way I might get this to work? I'd appreciate it as it's about to get really hot and both of my units are down at the same time! I noticed the board had a lot of moisture on it when I took it out and a lot of rusted solder joints.

Thank you for the fix now I have air again!! however now I’m having an issue where after a few hours the air coming out is no longer cold. I unplug it for a few minutes and plug back in and it goes back to cold but is anyone having this issue too?

Is the board too expensive to replace?

Saludos es para saber si se queda todo el tiempo directo o hace el ciclos normales, gracias.

@anonimodelpueblo662

10 ай бұрын

Se queda directo

Part number -- I think -- is WJ26X23879. I've ordered one and will update my comment if it's in-stock, arrives, etc.

@MattC78

7 ай бұрын

Thanks for posting the part number. I found one for 70 bucks. Ouch.

@brandonleesanders

4 ай бұрын

I ordered the same part number. Did it end up fixing the problem…?

Mine has power at the plug but no lights on panel and doesn’t turn on I’m try this.

We have had ours for two years tho so far . No clue the issue. Just stopped cooling all Together . I got a cover for the outside and zip tie the straps so it cannot be taken or messed with by passersby. What stinks is , where I live with my kid , it is so noisy outside . The neighbors are full of ignorance among other things I won’t mention . So I use it year round . (Mind when we are not home I shut it off ). It’s on fan in winter . Blocks out all the noise perfectly. Summer time is cool air . Until this year about a month ago it stopped working . I have cleaned it . With the proper tools. Coil cleaners , foaming cleaner ect . I guess I can’t do this because if I do, I will not be able to turn off the cool air setting . And it will be no use in winter . Guess I’ll have to find another solution. If I can’t I just might result to this . It’s too hot . 😢

Why not Just install a room thermostat to control temperature and on/off? Should be able to use the same wires you mentioned.

Does it bring it to the highest cold temperature?

@carlosm6311

11 ай бұрын

The temp setting shuts the AC condenser off when the thermostat dips below the set temp. That capability is gone. The fan setting is locked into HI so basically, it's cooling at max fan speed all the time and will not turn off no matter how cold the room gets. Only way to turn it off is unplug it or use the breaker on the wall plug. Good luck!

Ours is stuck at 72 is there a way to keep it at 68 or low