I have a brivis evap cooler (I believe it's a contour). First hot day of the year, tried to turn it on only to find the unit wasn't working. Subsequently found out it was 2 months past warranty and brivis refused to cover it.
The problem with the unit is as follows....
The fan will come on and work fine, however as soon as we switch the cooling on, the fan cuts out and water just keeps running out of the system. We've waited for ages in case it's just trying to cool the pads but no good. We got a service company out (macair - absolute nightmare). The guy came and within 15 mins had it working. His report read the following:
"Checked Evap Style Cooler and found drain solinoid stuck in the open position. Checked PC operation and found solinoid contacts lock in the off position. Reset PC Board and Checked Operation. All OK".
This was about a month ago. Yesterday we had our first hot day since then, and we're having the exact same issue. Mac Air is giving me the run around, so I'm trying to figure out if there's something I can do myself. The service guy told me, a reboot should correct it as the machine can self diagnose. I got on the roof and tried turning the system off and on from the switch on the system, but to no avail.
I'm trying to avoid another service guy coming out for 10 mins only to fix the issue temporarily and charging me $200 for the honor.