My goldstar turns on and hums, but no cold air. then it blows a circuit breaker

If your thermostat is working on the Heat cycle (listen for "click" when turned up and down on Heat), then your heating coil assembly is probably bad. The heating coil is in series with a Fusible Link and a Bi-metal thermostat, if any of these three fails, there will be no heat from the coils.The Link and Bi-metal Thermostat are made up as part of the heater coil assembly.

most AC`s have a start capacitor at the compressor pump, if this start capacitor is defective your compressor will not start and cause it to draw more current than is normal, when you turn the unit on listen, if you notice a humming sound like an ac hum than this might be your problem, other units use a relay to start the compressor motor and if this relay is defective your compressor is remaining in the start winding position and will also consume excess current, obtain a diagram of your unit and this will indicate the type of start device employed and go from there

Hi,
The compressor is bad...

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sounds like it is miswired. actually try fan on with the heat on and see if the fan works.

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Make sure the condensor fan is blowing through the condensor on the roof. It sounds like the compressor is fighting high head pressures after running a bit.. After so many attepts, or if it suceeds in operating the load trips the circuit breaker.. Make sure the condensor is clean and air is passes through it from the fan. Just for clarifiication the condensor is the coil that gets hot and the evaporator is the coil yat create the cold air. Good Luck, and if you will, let me know how it turns out. Good Luck. Ned

There is a problem and you or an Ac technician has to find it.

take ac cage off or ac out of window so insides are exposed take out side and use water hose and clean out side coils and in side coils dont bend these coils or u will be sorry,,,clean out good if not stoped up have freon put in

check outside unit large pipe should be cool or even very cold small pipe should be warm to touch that will eliminate some questions in order to solve problem also check circuit breaker for outdoor unit see if fan on outdooor unit is running and listen for compressor hum

It is probably either the Compressor and or the capacitor that has failed. The compressor will hum and pull a lot of amps when it has seized up. Sounds like it is time for a new unit.