If you’re like myself and others and you’re about ready to beginning using your again for the year, then you want to make sure that you check the exterior device that is outside of your home before you turn it on for the first time. I didn’t do this last year and I ended up having to spend money for that mistake with a lot of money in repair costs! See, the two of us have a sizable tree in the backyard that grows fairly close to the device and for some reason, I didn’t check it last year before I turned on the for the first time. I think I just wasn’t thinking about it when the weather started heating up in the Springtime and so I didn’t think that it was important to go out there and look at it, however, I genuinely should have checked it out because one of the limbs from the tree had broken off and it was somehow wedged in the top of the fan. Whenever I turned the control device over to and turned it on, the outside device fired up and the fan started turning and it sucked the branch right down into it, wedging the branch down further and further until the fan stopped turning and the whole thing got dented and torn up. I had to spend money a whole lot of money to our local Heating, Ventilation, and A/C supplier to get the replaced, and believe me, I will never make that mistake again. Always make sure that you check your exterior device or you will be sorry one day!