WELL THAT'S NOT GONNA WORK....
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- Опубликовано: 2 июл 2024
- So I still can't believe they had me fix this unit, but these days this is happening more and more.
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00:06 VIDEO START
00:58 RECOVERY TIME
02:10 EVAP INSPECTION
03:12 WTF MOMENT #1
04:29 THINK SMART
06:25 ARE YOU A HACK??
07:38 BRAZING MONTAGE
11:56 PRESSURE TEST TIME
12:17 " TELL HIM TO COMB THE DESERT"
14:32 PASSED THE EVACUATION TEST
15:27 SYSTEM VITALS
17:21 I'M BACK ???
21:06 WTF MOMENT #2
25:41 CLOSING WORDS
I feel like I am slowly learning how to repair AC by watching your videos... despite living in the UK, where AC doesnt work the same way... or really exist in most places
the difference is dramatic though. In germany everything it looks completely different, and tbh it looks more thought trough, more professional, clean. And i’m extremely confused by psi, pounds, microns and fahrenheit…
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I have no idea what's going on but I'm loving what I'm watching .. And I don't know why.....
Been a subscriber for awhile now but never commented until now.
Like the quality and production value in each and every video. Its so relaxing to watch.
Thank you for producing these videos
Thanks bud
Same here. Just hate missing the cut out parts of the install process😔.
You need a tone generator/linemans set for tracking down those rogue thermostat wires. Takes the guesswork out!
monoprice has a pretty cost effective tone generator and probe set but you can find them all over.
Wow. Just Wow. I love watching your Genuine reactions to the crap that you found from the last guy. I know that you are trying to hold it in for the camera but I have been around enough tradespeople to know that is not how they generally react when the customer nor camera is in earshot. It sucks dealing with the heat but your reactions during the WTF moments are the best and just make me laugh.
🤘🤘🤘🤘
Its hot as hades here in Texas too. Next week is in the 100°'s all week.
The future is bright, more repair, more labour hours, less throwing stuff away, great!
Wonderful example of your can-do attitude. I hope the customer understood all that you did and you didn't (in the end) suffer from the discovery that after all your initial work there was still a problem.
33:03 - You sold me right here when you said your hats are flex fit! Those are rare next to the more common "ponytail" hole in the back.
At 24:46 with that Wago you just created a short between the black and the orange wires.
Saw that too. In one of the next shots there are two wire nuts in place.
@@matthiasplus6691 He probably went downstairs only to find out that the thermostat does not work properly this time either. I guess. Provided he did not want to check our attention.
Impressive as always.
I think you need to turn down the music on the sped up braising segments about.. a third? 20%? It's a big jump from 'quiet voice' to 'pounding music'.
But that is the only complaints I ever have about your videos! :)
Man that's something to basically rebuild the whole entire unit. It sucks that you couldn't get one but at the same time it's gotta feel good to take something old and worn out and dang near make it new again
yeah its such a good feeling to remove old jump and replace it, breath life into this unit
Thanks for all of your great videos. I don't know why I found your channel, and I am actually an electrical engineer, so I don't know why I have watched it for so long. I think it's your professional mentality, and you do a great job of explaining the equipment, and thought processes. The classic meters you have above your storage shelves are cool too. The Simpson is one I lusted over when I was a kid in the 70s and 80s. Can you slide the new one that's in the wooden box over to the left a bit so we can see it, or just do a quick pan of all of them in one of your videos so we can see them more clearly.
Thanks for your hard work.
Good ol so cal weather, never know what’s going to happen, hot one day, thunderstorms the next, gonna be a weird summer I’m sure, the brazing montage music is definitely a good choice! You were literally two blocks away from my house in this video lol!
Had some rain while on a roof at a store last week here in AZ and I stopped what I was doing, took my hat off and just enjoyed it haha This heat makes you desperate for shade and rain
Amazing how manufacturers are so damn focused on costs that they do so at the expense of quality. A race to the bottom.
Everyone likes to blame the manufactures and I totally get it. But these customers know exactly the low-quality unit they’re getting and just don’t care. So it’s people across-the-board not caring and all racing to save pennies.
@@Mrcaffinebean the culture and ppl are what created this "disposable" society but at the same time, the ppl that want are are willing to pay for a higher quality unit literally don't have any options. Nobody even offers a higher quality unit
@@c117ls7 yep, and the strict EPA requirements make that difficult also. It’s hard hit economy of scale when every manufacturer has to constantly design for the newest refrigerant and efficiency requirements.
You know, I love these videos, but mostly because I can identify exactly what building you're working on... It takes some references and Crossings to figure out, but I love the hunt. :)
Monsoon season is a godsend for us here in Southern AZ...
...let it RAIN!
well, never been this early before, the fun shall commence.
I in my second year of my own Restaurant service and repair. I have been in the restaurant service for 25 years. I’m a full restaurant repair service company. I have enjoyed watching your videos and came across your videos when I was researching r490 videos. Thank you for the videos they have been fun to watch. Jason from Birmingham.
All I can say is WOW!!!, that's a job there. I have plugged fixed orifice evaporator to replace coming up. Watching this , I will be taking the condenser out to get better access. Thanks man.
Some people have had luck pushing nitrogen backwards thru the coil while gently heating all the fixed orifices. But Tempstar/ICP units getting access to that part of the evap is challenging to say the least. I think it's waxes and sludge from dirty condenser coils that plugs up those short orifice tubes. Trane units can do the same thing, just not as often
Great videos, thanks again for taking your time explaining everything in all videos. I started running alot more calls in refrigeration too, and your videos have helped me a shit load! Going to order some more hats too.
We got our “brazing music” fix! LOL! Keep up the great work and thanks for the videos! Be safe and stay kind.
I just ordered a new 18’x40’ walk-in box on Tuesday. 26-30 weeks. Heatcraft equipment 12-16 weeks.
I love this videos, they are 👁 opening when I have to troubleshoot my units at work, thanks Chris you are tech and teacher, God bless you.
0:59 that sound of your voice Chris I get those days hahaha THAT INVOICE though ;)
Great video. I have learned alot from your videos. You do good work and despite the obstacles you face, you push through and get the job done.
Its been a few years and i still watch your video..good job like always chris.
Running an hvac company is one of the most stressful jobs. Especially in the middle of the summer.
i just caught the space balls reference for the chapter in the vid where you were realigning/combing the fins on the evap coil and that made my day haha
OMG. Good work. I like it. Thanks for taking the time to make the videos while going through sooo much.
Ok, the music selection during the Brazing Montage gave me the biggest SynthWave 80's vibe...more of it! Keep the great content coming!
This season has definitely gotten more sporty than years past for sure. Great video, thanks for sharing!
This is crazy. I retired last year after 31 years and I worked for JCI/York doing factory start up on most York product. I also worked for Therma in the Bay Area that had about 160 Technicians in about 2000 employee’s. I remember going to Slacky Brothers or other vendors and park between pallets of package units. For my side job Willy Saturday project. We all did them. When you see a HVAC teck driving a Harley you know exactly how he got it !! Lol. Things have sure changed in the industry. As far me I’m to old to be “Sidejob Willy but not too old to ride my Harley “. Be safe out there
I retired from Stationary Engineers local 39, in 2008. I still work as a relief engineer 400-500 hours per year. I'm 73 yrs old now, and I'm not looking to bust my butt all day long anymore. But, I get called from 3 different facilities to sit in when the chief goes on vacation, and there is an understanding that I'm there to keep an eye on the place and pick up the phone if something goes radically wrong. Life isn't too bad in these golden years. I worked at the 1111 Broadway high rise, in downtown Oakland. York did our chiller annuals. We had a 900 ton and a 450 ton. John and Darrel from York/JCI did our annuals. Best rgds.
@@izzydayid7989 . Yes those are my guys. I also worked with Randy and David. We all retired within 5 years of each other. The Pre JCI day’s was the best. We had the best crew. Because we were all the same age and went through the apprenticeship program together. I didn’t do tear downs. I did start up on the large vav boxes and drives, air handler system with JCI controllers. I was familiar with both products. I end up going all over the country doing start up and system commissioning specially with a lot of the hospitals. It was-a fun ride just my wife got tired of me not home. Then I had twin son’s and I needed a change. Working for JCI was awesome just a little to demanding. I finished up at Therma. I met a lot of retired local 39 working at UC Berkeley and Livermore National lab. I guess you can double up there and still get your pension. That’s a good gig.
@@samuelaranda4597 I am pretty sure that after age 71, a local 39 retiree can work as many hours as he pleases, in covered local 39 work, and still collect a full pension. I can get a local 39 full time job any time I would want, I believe. at this point, I prefer to take the opportunity to have an afternoon nap on the living room couch as often as possible. But, having said that, I like to work a week or two, here and there, which is what I'm able to do. There are two sites in SF, one man chief jobs, where they use me, when the chief goes on vacation and another pretty nice building in walnut creek. they all have underground parking for me. as long as the pension plan and social security hold up, I won't go back to work fulltime.....unless something too tempting to resist appears.
Best regards.
@@izzydayid7989 yes a afternoon nap is highly underrated.
I really enjoy ur videos informative and time lapsed. What you say is important no fluff.
I was concerned for your safety. Thought for sure an Oompa Loompa was gonna pop out of that little door on the roof. Thanks for all your videos sir, truly a pleasure to watch.
Equipment leadtimes are absolutely insane now. I've got a project where a client has a single large custom air handler which had an 80-ton split condensing unit for cooling, and at some point somebody replaced it with a 60-ton and they can't operate the building in the peak summer because it's undersized, and probably was undersized in the first place. We're going in with a new 90-ton unit (and replacing the evap coils and lines since we are switching R-22 to R-410A). Trying to get another condensing unit that large is anywhere from 30 to 50 weeks. It's crazy.
Get a Greenlee tone and probe kit, it'll make your life so much easier.
It's what I use every day in the telecomm industry.
It’s kind of fun seeing you work on these places, and you know where it is. I’ve had a few lunchs there 🙂
I'm sitting here in New Zealand trying to geo locate using a business we got a peek at. I know we shouldn't talk about such things, but it's fun to look and find.
@@prdoohan I worked down the road from the place, so that’s why I knew.
Sir, do you think we're taking him too literally? He said comb the desert so we're combing it!
Ha ha I was wondering if someone would get that joke!!
Space balls references are always welcome
My god that music during the brazing is down right hypnotizing
Great job Chris customer service at its best 👌
Love your content keep up the good work and videos love them.
you got best videos I am so glade your makeing videos. I am makeing new watter park and indoors with hotels n exta your videos are so inforitive.
Man you do super great work lad! Respect and honor to you me bhoy. Keep it up
I like to use those Honeywell redlink zone sensors and the honeywell vision pro thermostats in a lot of restaurants I have. Easy to mount the sensor where you want it, and no have to try and figure out how to run wires thru a complex building. One restaurant/night club I have has literally 5 package units, 2 split system heat pumps, and a mini-split in the kitchen... And they wanted all 7 thermostats in the office...
I work in an auto a/c shop, I see a lot of shade tree mechanic victims where the compressor is replaced but the orifice tube is left alone. Burns the new compressor up and the customer is left wondering why 😁 Then when you pull the orifice it's plugged with shrapnel
I really need to order one of those HVACR hats. I hear they give a +10 bonus to Big Picture Diagnosis skill checks.
if you look at the 24 v wiring at the start,there was a junction,that got eliminated.but other than that you kicked ass,very nice job.
geeze times are that tough.. good job Chris. true tradesman!👏
Great video bud perfect detail as always
Thank you for the video!
wow late night video, its 2:05amCDT as i watch this
Blue is common, brown is W2 and orange is Y2! 😂
We have been slammed with crazy service calls too. Working on a 1300 ton chiller that has been a can off worms. 🤦♂️
Great video!
I ordered 5- 10 ton package units last week. They won't even give me a estimation on delivery. My supply house estimates 12-16 weeks. Definitely crazy times and funny how shocked customers are when you follow up with if I can get it. Did a change out today where I replaced the air handler and left the old condenser until next week when they get the truck in " if " it comes in.
You did an excellent job. Understandably, you wanted to finish the work order, before any potentially active thunder clouds were overhead.
Some years back, in the San Gabriel Valley, I assisted the new owner of an older restaurant with some plumbing changes. (I do not remember what.) In the crawl space, was a "rat's nest" of gas, hot, cold and drain pipes from previous alterations. Understandably, after the initial pipe layout, all subsequent changes, were add-ons, and/or disconnects. All pipe runs not needed at that time, were left in place for possible future use.
Great work.
Still the best hvac channel on RUclips.
I got the Klein ET450 and it's frigging awesome! You should try one. I do a lot of random stuff, 12vdc to 460vac and it's now on my truck daily, I off load lots of tools at night, so I don't necessarily bring every tool with me. That tool is with me all the time now. I could detect a energized wire in a metal conduit 20' above me. Way less range non energized. But works fantastic for me and everything I have tried it on.
Forgot to mention, have to get used to adjusting sensitivity on handheld. Too high and will get wrong breaker, dead or live.
How to spot an owner of an HVAC company.. using every last inch of the brazing rods lol. Good stuff man
so interesting that the thermo wiring's not in conduit, would make replacement so much easier
24:55 little different from how we do it in FL, Blue is preferred for C and Brown is preferred for Y2, funny enough its the exact opposite.
Thank you!
I run a commercial retail installation team in northern Kentucky. I'm being told it's a 5 month lead time from every manufacturer on 5 ton package units
Dam that sounds like a good video I hope you got video on that one with the walk ins
Love the brazing soundtracks!!😁😎
Ah that feeling of what did I fuck up now , when you get a call back is crazy, especially when you know you did everything right, but it's the amount of moving parts in HVACR...i love it though.. Great job as usual man, thorough as always.
I know Brazing to some people might be mundane but I still love watching y'all do it, you did that with music too btw and you seem a master with the oxy/acet torch, I am partial to my Turbotorch and I use my oxy/acet set up for brazing inside cabinets or tight spots but I'm starting to like it a little bit more for other stuff...the soot tho, it's ridiculous, still trying to find that oxy balance on first lit, but hey.
Keep up the thorough work ethic man
I use a turbotorch with an adapter to use a small 10 cu ft MC tank. Much easier to get up a ladder on the roof. There's no need for oxy/acetylene unless trying to silver solder a big brass distributor onto like a 12.5 ton TXV. That does get challenging to get enough heat in it quick enough even with a big tip that drains that small tank in under an hour. But for just copper to copper normal joints, a good turbotorch is more than enough heat to get the job done.
@@brnmcc01 If you do only HVAC then maybe not, but for Refrigerators and small reach-ins, the oxy/acetylene torch is perfect. The turbo torch starves for oxygen in tight quarters and they spread the heat everywhere which can ruin the whole interior.
@@marjones69 That's a good point, I've run into that problem of starving for oxygen, but on a lot of reach ins, the condensing unit can be slid out a bit. When replacing the TXV on a 3 door Randell prep table recently, was very cramped space, but with all three doors propped open, and removing the fan wiring harness so it wouldn't get melted, it wasn't too bad. Hate those mullion evaps, hard to work on, and they always cram food and stuff up against it, blocking the airflow etc...
@@brnmcc01 True, I suppose once you get good with a tool you tend to stick with it...the worse thing is to mess with something new and have to redo
@@marjones69 Biggest thing that sucks with the turbotorch is like when you have to attach a TXV to a big heavy brass distributor or something like that. The turbotorch can't get enough heat into something heavy fast enough to reach brazing temp before the heat transfers away. But staybrite #8 silver bearing solder works good in a case like that.
We have been doing a bunch of commerical installs lately Carrier 5-10 ton RTUs.
Great video
Awesome video
Man, I really need to get the oxy acetylene setup... Acetylene by its self is so damn slow and loud, and good luck getting anything 7/8" or over hot enough to melt silfos in the winter.
I use the same method where I purge my hose up to the inlet port on the recovery tank. The only thing I do different is I never use my digital gauges for recovery. I have an old pair of analogs that have been relegated to being on s%#t detail as we’d say in the military 😂. Maybe I’m just a little too ocd but I reserve my digital gauges for new installs or parts changeouts.
well, I can see that you walked into a mess created by someone else. you did a heckuva job. the second segment, when you got called back the next day was the trigger for so many "bitter memories" of my days as a field service technician. I worked as a field service tech from '75-85, and then transitioned to becoming a building (stationary) engineer., in the SF Bay area that worked out pretty well for me.
I'll finish watching the video, to find out if it was another tech, or the owner himself, who fouled up the controls. That's tough, when you go into a place for the first time, and you get caught up in the bad practices of some other individual. Enjoyed the video a lot. ZSt first, I missed being a field tech, calling my own shots. But, then seeing the can of worms that you walked into, beng a stationary engineer, does have it's advantages, despite the fact that you may not always have the same level of self-authority. $0 hours per week, every week. you get to know your site intimately, less likelihood of unforeseen surprises, whatever!
Thanks for sharing your system overhaul. Good job.
3am upload for me goddamn lol great video as always
Love the montage music you use which song is this one if you don't mind . Love how you can't find parts last summer had a hvac look at my mom's unit I'm a welder by trade but many other trades also intrest me but couldn't find the start caps for the compressor or the condenser fan at all his suppliers in the end found it myself lol he literally asked my mom why she didn't let me do it thank God I took picture's tho he couldn't figure out the wiring cause I had to take the caps to get the new ones so thankfully he figured it out by talking to me and by the pics but said looked like it was leaking thankfully it isn't
It never rains in Southern California, Man it pours
Copper is so pretty when it is new and shiny.
I’ve always thought blue was the common color for common, or at least in my area it is. Or maybe it’s a residential thing? Sometimes I’ll come across a brown common wire. Looks like you were somewhere in Corona, I recognize those mountains in the background. 😀
If those zone sensors are NTC, then combining them causes improper readings.
Was thinking the same, don't know if you can jump any sensor like that. I mean unless it's a NO/NC contact
i would love to see u figuring out why the wire is broken for example if u can next time do this sort of thing
I think your using about 5x more temperature then your really need, And i'm not sure what to believe about that weld. Need to go and do some reasearch about it.
This is open heart surgery for a package unit.
Multiple organ transplant
Yea. Props to anybody that could get it done. I would never take that job
Great video thanks Chris.
YOU MIGHT LIKE THE ZIP TIES WITH CLIPS BUILT IN SO YOU DRILL LIKE A 6mm HOLE AND CLIP THE ZIP TIE IN AND TIE THE WIRES IN.
I think they’re called fixing cable tie
i do like those but they are fairly expensive, great for low voltage cables and service loops
I love that torch tip Chris, what number or kind is it?
Why the copper drain lines? Here in TN we just use pvc
Red link for the win boss lol
You certainly did it the right way but man redlink would have saved you allot of work on that one.
Best brazing montages in the biz
I am sure it is standard for HVAC but that is a cute little torch.
20:40 are they with any "power company gets to turn on your AC for you" program? Lol. Also, are the remote sensors wireless? Could be someone unmaliciously measuring their fridge temp, or maybe a competitor maliciously sending bad wireless signals, lol...
So were they suffering with high temps while the unit you repaired was down needlessly because of the other thermostats?
Yes yes they were
I know I would have been tempted to play ferret and run fresh wires, maybe multiples through there instead of patching, but I also know that's a HUGE time chunk. Maybe if you'd had an assistant along you could have justified having them snake in more wire, but you can't do everything every time.
Always a great day, when there is a new video from HVACR VIDEOS
Yellow jacket fin comb kit. Essential tool
Depending on the unit, breaking the blower contactor MAY be the only way to immediately shut the blower down.
There are units that have a delay when you drop power from the R.
R=R
W=W
W2=Brown
Y=Y
Y2=Orange
G=G
C=Blue(because it is AC power)
But like you said, no real standard.
If it is DC power, then "C"=Black
its funny, I like using blue as common. its a Trane thing vs Carrier thing ;)
Why do the drain pan threads crack, like you said?
Unless you are continually removing the fitting, what is the cause?
Man, what a battleship! Good job though. She'll run for years!
I always forget you're measuring in Fahrenheit. When you say it's like 100° out there, I'm like "how the hell can you still be alive in such temperatures?". Then I remember you don't measure in Celsius, so it's not literally boiling hot out there.
"can't believe they had me fix this unit" well frankly.. this is gonna be more and more common as we try and reduce the waste and turnover of equipment. doesn't this make more sense for the enviroment?
That's fine until you get a unit with metal fatigue cracks, those have been shown on this channel too. It's also wasteful to rebuild the unit like this, only to have the sheet metal supporting the blower motor crack, and then the new compressor and condenser will go in the trash* because they don't sell a new sheet metal assembly. You can't just do parts replacement forever, everything has a lifetime, and some parts just aren't replaceable.
* I say trash because there are too many places where if you don't leave the old parts outside for the tweakers to steal and sell, they will break in and steal the new good stuff.
@@johnhaller5851 the issue is air conditioning, it is not evirmentaly friendly and uses way to much energy to run, other countries dont have it every where like we do in the usa, time to dial that crap back there are ways to make buildings cooler in the summers, other countries have no issue with it, americans are just spoiled brats
@@johnhaller5851 Yep and then next thing will be the heat exchanger is cracked or rusted through. Poorly made ICP junk.
HVACR VIDEOS, Hey are you one to use an Acid nutulizer in the compressor oil with suspected burn outs or are you one of those guys that says don't add anything to the system that the factory did not use ? And if so was just wondering how it has worked for you? Thanks love the videos.