The drone beeped nervously.
“Shut up,” she said. “I know what to do.”
The cover was gone, replaced by duct tape and a prayer. Page 47, the refrigerant flow diagram, was held together with a hairpin. The troubleshooting flowchart on page 102 had been rewritten in her own blood after a capacitor exploded in her face last spring.
Then she closed the panel, pressed the reset button, and held her breath.
“You’ve been jumped by a power surge,” she said to the unit. “Probably lightning three weeks ago. The spike hit the harmonic damper.”
The amber light flickered. It stuttered. For one horrible second, it went dead.
The Mitsubishi MXY-3A28VA service manual wasn't a list of instructions.