Ok... here is what has happened over the past few days.
Called Home Depot product support, got transferred to my "local store" only to have the nice gentleman on the phone (I will not out the man by name as he lives in my neighborhood) told me that that AC was for commercial use only and that the power in my house could not support a "two-phase" power requirement. I asked if he meant 3-phase, and he said no, that he intended to say "two-phase". I then pointed out that the motor plate and manual both stated single phase. He then changed gears to say that the motor required 240V of power and that my house could only support 220V. That is where I thanked him for his time and hung up. I was actually quite polite about it.
Called up Marathon Electric... The motor is the correct motor for the compressor, but the plate is incorrect. I explained over the phone to a very knowledgeable chap what all I went through to trouble shoot, and how I had done to isolate it down to the motor having problems. They offered to send me a replacement. I said thanks but no thanks as I would just return the AC.
Returned to Home Depot with the compressor. Walked up to the return counter and explained that I had a return and I would need a forklift/pallet jack to get it in the store. I explained that it was an AC and she called a forklift driver to the front. Walking with the guy to my truck at the contractor entrance, I explained the past few weeks and the "interesting" phone call for support. That was when he told me he was the manager on shift today; I thought I was just talking to a regular forklift driver.
He then asked if I wanted to exchange it, and I explained that it was a floor model, mine was the last one, they discontinued the model, etc... He asked for my receipt and asked if I was "done" with the Husky brand? I explained that one bad product does not kill it for me, but two in a row would. He offered to swap out the floor model I bought for the new one still strech wrapped up. Of course I said yes.
Here is the new AC. All of the wiring was already done so it was very easy and quick to get this one hooked up. The new AC is fully operational. Here is a picture of it below.
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The little blue one there is off to craigslist now. I can hardly believe how much quieter this new 60 gal is over my old oil-less 20 Gal. It is even quieter than the returned 60 Gal, when it was running.
Now I just have to drill new mount point holes for it. The returned AC had three legs and this one has four. Oh well, at least I get to reuse one of the holes from the previous AC.
In my opinion, Home Depot management went above and beyond to call to make things right with the customer with regard to me. I was not even a ridiculously upset person over the whole ordeal.
Michael