Good honest service call Steve and good looking out for the customer too! I once worked for a boss that had a $200 00 bounty he paid for selling a customer a new unit! At our morning meeting before going out he said that and suggested if it was a older unit were working on you guys can reverse the start and run wires on the compressor and make some extra money for yourselves and then said I am not telling you what to do but if you want to make some extra money you will be doing the customer a favor by installing a new more efficient unit! After that and some other dishonest things I left there to work a union job for the government and retired from there with a good pension! Thanks Steve for another awesome video where you as usual did the right thing! Love miss Molly! You like to drive miss Molly!
I ran into a similar experience a couple of years ago. XYZ co. told a single mother of 2 that her Bryant had a bad condenser fan motor and that the unit needed replaced.The run cap was bad. When I showed her dad what I found, well he blew a gasket,understandably.
Steve how is your dog doing I hope he's doing good. Your videos help me plenty and save me money I'm retired just tinkering around the house, helping mywife and kids, repairing the cars etc . Have not been anywhere guess I'm a homebody. You take care always humble and honest . PEACE
Most common call is the capacitor or needs a hard start cap. Had a women said she was putting a new system in cuz the cap was bad, WHAT!!!??? ALOT OF TECHS TELL THIS crap shit show to customers and it pisses me off. No need. But in this case its the RIGHT CALL FOR A CAP X2. NICE call Steve. Thank you. HVAC ON!!! KID
I'm guessing they went to disconnect the capacitor, got bit by the cap or the line voltage, dropped the wire, it arc'd on the sheetmetal, tripped the breaker and they got pissed and just said it needed to be changed out completely.
Great job Steve always honest! At the oil company I was with almost 15 years the bosses son tried to sell one of my 101 year old customers a new oil tank. I told her daughter who was in her 80s to forget about him. If the tank ever needed replacement ide put a good used one in. Want to rip off someone 101 years old who could hardly pay their bill.
Nicholas Huss just trying to figure out how saying he’s honest has anything to do with him being single. The oddest comments have been popping up on youtube lately. Must be something in the water these days.
Nicholas Huss in my next life, so I don’t need to spend a half a million dollars on my hvac repairs over my lifetime like I do now. Happily married in this lifetime though.
My AC stopped working last year. Guy comes out says “your looking at a new system here” Me “I’m broke that’s not happening” Guy..”well I think it’s a bad contact, I can fix it for. $450” What a “GEM”
Steve, I'm the farthest thing from a HVAC Tech, but I love your videos. I stumbled on them a while back and am watching new ones each day and old ones in between. Guess I should've went into HVAC back in the day. At the least, I feel like I'm learning a lot to help my own house or at least to keep my wife and I from being swindled down the road. You have a great personality, and Miss Molly is about the best. Take care, man. I appreciate the humor and knowledge!
when you get the call from the customer to come and check out a system you as a professional will always get the call to service it again honesty is the best policy Steve is the man for the job no doubt about it
I run into this shit all the time. Hard start and she's up and running lol. Went tot one the other day they said it needed a new compressor and for about 30 minutes I thought so too until I looked at the schematic and realized someone swapped the leads on top of the contactor. Put them back per schematic and compressor ran fine 🤔
I'm no tech but never seen anything like this. A compressor with cracked raised paint on top. Six-year-old Goodman. Tech confirmed compressor short to ground. My aunt had nothing but bad things to say about the lemon unit.
Great job Steve, it’s a shame that so many customers out there get sold equipment they don’t need, you treat your customers with honesty which is hard to come by these days
As opposed to a hard start kit why not just use an oversized microfarad rating on the cap? Isnt that all a hard start kit is? More joules to kick it over
Would the extreme heat of high 90,s cause a window ac unit 10k btu for the blower fan motor thermal protection to cut out and motor to stop?unit never gave any problems before. Few days later unit ran fine again.any thoughts out there?
@6:18 when that thing started I heard all the rants coming. WTF is wrong with people out there trying to rip people off?! Crooked Shit. Thank You Steve for being out there!!
I picked up a oster 100 off of Facebook marketplace for 250 bucks with a 65r, the tripod and a chain vice that goes on the oster tripod. All after catching a older video of yours
@@Jon-hx7pe Refrigerant wasn't added in the vid. Adding refrigerant doesn't solve high subcool, it makes it worse. He cleaned the condenser best he could and the SC was still 17 with head pressure of 285 suction 86 which is high for an R22 unit. The superheat might be under target, you need to take indoor wetbulb and abient drybulb, to find the target. If the target superheat is 24 for example and he's getting 19 then its low. It probably needs to have some refrigerant removed and is possibly why the old compressor needed a hard start kit.
It will go out again soon that high side was 350 plus . Once it runs for a while it will probably cut back off . Just because it’s running doesn’t mean it’s running efficiently and it probably runs all day just to try to keep it cool.. due to the age and conditions it needs to be upgraded
Last summer I worked for a guy who would condemn a unit with bad capacitor and/or plugged coils.. He told me "You are right, but I'm teaching you how to make money". SMH.
He's on Yelp with 1 star.. I completely agree with all the reviews. Especially the one about him arguing with customers. On the first day he went to a condenser and put his and on the fan exit and said '"Good Delta T". He didn't even check pressures and told the customer that he tested them "The pressures are good.". He put his hand up to a register and said '"Feels good to me" the place was hot as hell and wrote up a $150 invoice. The customer started complaining and he went off about how he has spent over an hour there. We were there for no longer than 4 or 5 minutes. At the first evacuation, I got the pump and noticed the oil was black. I told him "oil is to be changed at every site or after every 20 hours of use at a site". He told me "I use the lifetime oil". I told him that I never heard of lifetime oil. He told me "See, you learn things every day.". Needless to say, the pump couldn't pull down below 2500 microns. The next day I told him that I couldn't find anything about lifetime oil in the RAC book or on the internet. He told me " Your school [Peterson in Woburn] is a complete joke. You should avoid books and the internet. Just listen to me because I am a master refrigeration guy. with 35 years." I looked him up on the state website. No legal company, so he has no insurance. He has a journeyman gas fitter license from the 70's. That was it.
Normal arcing with those pull out disconnects when you plug it back in and an appliance is on, calling, and theres a big draw. Think about it, there is a split second between the prongs hitting the power terminals and pushing it locked in place. #spark
Deviled Eggs just check outside with a meter to make sure both legs aren’t hot. You can’t see if a breaker is open on both legs. Those pull out discos make me nervous as well!
Another great video. Nuthin Steve can’t handle. AC related question if you get the chance, are there any downsides to adding a hard start kit; why not add one on every unit if it makes life easier for the compressor?
Now the "ground fault" guy will tell them that a hard start is something only hacks do. And his company only does quality work. Then he'll throw in some BS about how you want it to be reliable, it's going to break when you need it the most, and when it breaks nobody will be available to fix it. Then somehow he'll throw in how a new system will be safer and better for the children. And the people will buy his bs because they are stupid brain-dead office worker types
The actual issue was that the compressor was pulling locked rotor and tripping the breaker but idiots call everything shorted if they dont know better. Typically, the salesman.
What is your opinion on those variable rated caps ( I call them ), the ones packaged with short leads almost like a one size fits all type deal. Any good ?
More350Power talking about the Turbo200’s? American made, excellent 5 year warranty, and high quality - but they often require refitting the band because they’re larger than standard and they’re pricey compared to the cheap Chinese made. If you only have room for 2 caps on your truck or you’re in a market that doesn’t nickel and dime you to death there’s nothing better imo.
Those century 10 units are total pile of shits though. Leaks from compressor service valve blocks and from soldered lines inside units. I've also seen their lines rust out inside the unit, maybe some kind of impure copper?
an older 10 SEER system. it should of been replaced along time ago. looks like the compressor is newer a reciprocating Copeland hermetic compressor. as the other systems are Goodman's. i seen a video another company servicing a Nordyne unit it has a Microchannel coil in it so Nordyne is as bad as York now.
Yeah either way that unit needs to be replaced within the next year or 2 lol. He just hang another ac company over something he almost couldnt even fix. Not hating on the dude but i hate how other companies try to hang me sometimes over the dumbest shit. Example, i had to go to a guys house with 9 ac units and they were all old junk units except a few that he's had to replace. He absolutely didnt trust me because im young and people think ac is close to rocket science. Did maintenance on units, half of them i could barely even clean up because they were already so far gone. All was well. 6 months later i come back and do it all again. All of the sudden an issue pops up the next day (heat strip was staying on for some reason causing system to partially start a fire or at least smoke up the guys duct work. Who knows why, i didnt even get to look but i did take the faceplate off of the stat for the first time in its life and maybe that triggered something). Dude calls another ac company out and first thing they said was that the dudes units were dirty AF and somehow it was my fault. GREAT. I told my office and they completely understood but it still bothers me.
Steve. Go back to 6:25 and you'll be able to see some sparkage when you reinstalled the breaker/disconnect. Is that normal for that type of disconnect?
Would love to see a video of you working on one of your cars or another cooking video would be awesome. But don't get me wrong I love your regular videos too
It seems that HVAC repair men are getting so greedy these days. There are also a lot of incompetent techs and installers too. Those bad installers have given Goodman a bad name.
No goodman gave itself a bad name to the service techs.... you ever try to replace a blower motor in a goodman front draw unit? Nearly impossible. You gotta drop the drain pan, evap coil and remove all of the electrical..... theres other components i can name but im not here to rant.
@@Straight_White_Fatherly_Figure Yes Goodman gave themselves a bad name for a variety of reasons. Internet sales/ lax policies on who they sell to, and worst yet poorly designed products. In fairness much of that on the resi stuff seems to have improved or at least as crappy as most of the rest of the crap.
"Shorted to ground" == Lazy, ignorant, dishonest. Pick one or more. Should the system have been replaced? Maybe, but, that doesn't give the tech an excuse to deceive the customer.
We he had to put a start cap and cap. The low side pressures were high. No amp test on start or run.. I've seen compressors appear to be to ground and started later. I've also seen windings open and started after the compressor cooled. All those incidents I was following a tech... My company's tech.
@@garyglanz403 given the first tech said "shorted to ground", I suspect either A) he decided that after finding a popped breaker, or B) find "open windings" (internally tripped) and mistakingly called that "shorted". As I said in my original comment, I don't necessarily believe that cap and go, gas and go, hard start and go is always in the customer's best interest, but, I do believe it IS the customer's decision. I wasn't present with the first tech so I don't actually know what happened. I have fixed countless systems that the previous tech declared dead for things as simple as a worn out contactor, an open cap, a loose wire, a dead condenser fan motor, a faulty low or high pressure cutoff, etc.. I never know whether the previous tech was lazy/ignorant/dishonest but I do know they didn't provide an appropriate diagnosis. Granted, things might have been different when the first tech was present, but, surely, not as often as I do 2nd opinions.
It will go out again soon that high side was 350 plus . Once it runs for a while it will probably cut back off . Just because it’s running doesn’t mean it’s running efficiently and it probably runs all day just to try to keep it cool.. due to the age and conditions it needs to be upgraded
Nice video thanks
Nice work
Good honest service call Steve and good looking out for the customer too! I once worked for a boss that had a $200 00 bounty he paid for selling a customer a new unit! At our morning meeting before going out he said that and suggested if it was a older unit were working on you guys can reverse the start and run wires on the compressor and make some extra money for yourselves and then said I am not telling you what to do but if you want to make some extra money you will be doing the customer a favor by installing a new more efficient unit! After that and some other dishonest things I left there to work a union job for the government and retired from there with a good pension! Thanks Steve for another awesome video where you as usual did the right thing! Love miss Molly! You like to drive miss Molly!
Nice job and video like always ( Steven )
Another great save Steve. Do you ever use the 5-2-1 compressor saver units ?
I ran into a similar experience a couple of years ago. XYZ co. told a single mother of 2 that her Bryant had a bad condenser fan motor and that the unit needed replaced.The run cap was bad. When I showed her dad what I found, well he blew a gasket,understandably.
Good work Steve.
Steve how is your dog doing I hope he's doing good. Your videos help me plenty and save me money I'm retired just tinkering around the house, helping mywife and kids, repairing the cars etc . Have not been anywhere guess I'm a homebody. You take care always humble and honest . PEACE
Most common call is the capacitor or needs a hard start cap. Had a women said she was putting a new system in cuz the cap was bad, WHAT!!!??? ALOT OF TECHS TELL THIS crap shit show to customers and it pisses me off. No need. But in this case its the RIGHT CALL FOR A CAP X2. NICE call Steve. Thank you. HVAC ON!!! KID
I'm guessing they went to disconnect the capacitor, got bit by the cap or the line voltage, dropped the wire, it arc'd on the sheetmetal, tripped the breaker and they got pissed and just said it needed to be changed out completely.
i bet the dude had som arcing in his pants to seeig the mark on the sheetmetal
sounds like hit the nail on the head
Great job Steve always honest! At the oil company I was with almost 15 years the bosses son tried to sell one of my 101 year old customers a new oil tank. I told her daughter who was in her 80s to forget about him. If the tank ever needed replacement ide put a good used one in. Want to rip off someone 101 years old who could hardly pay their bill.
Customers appreciate honesty like yours.
Lori Lyn Steve is single just so u know..
Nicholas Huss just trying to figure out how saying he’s honest has anything to do with him being single. The oddest comments have been popping up on youtube lately. Must be something in the water these days.
Lori Lyn I remember u saying in another video that u were going to marry a plumber/hvac guy in ur lifetime.
Nicholas Huss in my next life, so I don’t need to spend a half a million dollars on my hvac repairs over my lifetime like I do now. Happily married in this lifetime though.
Glad to see your honesty, brevity, and integrity.
My AC stopped working last year. Guy comes out says “your looking at a new system here”
Me “I’m broke that’s not happening”
Guy..”well I think it’s a bad contact, I can fix it for. $450”
What a “GEM”
Restriction??
Your a good honest working man, steve
Nice work Lav! Honest HVAC!
Honestly goes a long way. Great find.
Steve, I'm the farthest thing from a HVAC Tech, but I love your videos. I stumbled on them a while back and am watching new ones each day and old ones in between. Guess I should've went into HVAC back in the day. At the least, I feel like I'm learning a lot to help my own house or at least to keep my wife and I from being swindled down the road. You have a great personality, and Miss Molly is about the best. Take care, man. I appreciate the humor and knowledge!
15 scam artists disliked a video where an honest working man is being honest..
when you get the call from the customer
to come and check out a system
you as a professional will always get the call to service it again
honesty is the best policy
Steve is the man for the job
no doubt about it
Totally agree 👍
I run into this shit all the time. Hard start and she's up and running lol. Went tot one the other day they said it needed a new compressor and for about 30 minutes I thought so too until I looked at the schematic and realized someone swapped the leads on top of the contactor. Put them back per schematic and compressor ran fine 🤔
I had one where someone had wired a hard start into a hard start, you can't make this stuff up.
Maybe the cricket phone company will use some of your footage 😀
Thanks for being honest! Have a great evening.
what is supposably ?
I'm no tech but never seen anything like this. A compressor with cracked raised paint on top. Six-year-old Goodman. Tech confirmed compressor short to ground. My aunt had nothing but bad things to say about the lemon unit.
Great job Steve, it’s a shame that so many customers out there get sold equipment they don’t need, you treat your customers with honesty which is hard to come by these days
You're the best!
As opposed to a hard start kit why not just use an oversized microfarad rating on the cap? Isnt that all a hard start kit is? More joules to kick it over
Would the extreme heat of high 90,s cause a window ac unit 10k btu for the blower fan motor thermal protection to cut out and motor to stop?unit never gave any problems before. Few days later unit ran fine again.any thoughts out there?
Possible surge, or low on gas. Not worth repairing those either way.
Good job Steve honesty goes along way
@6:18 when that thing started I heard all the rants coming. WTF is wrong with people out there trying to rip people off?! Crooked Shit. Thank You Steve for being out there!!
I picked up a oster 100 off of Facebook marketplace for 250 bucks with a 65r, the tripod and a chain vice that goes on the oster tripod. All after catching a older video of yours
"Boll shit"
those pressures look high for r22 looks overcharged, could explain high subcool
@@Jon-hx7pe i didn't see the part were r22 was added to the system.
@@Jon-hx7pe Refrigerant wasn't added in the vid. Adding refrigerant doesn't solve high subcool, it makes it worse. He cleaned the condenser best he could and the SC was still 17 with head pressure of 285 suction 86 which is high for an R22 unit. The superheat might be under target, you need to take indoor wetbulb and abient drybulb, to find the target. If the target superheat is 24 for example and he's getting 19 then its low. It probably needs to have some refrigerant removed and is possibly why the old compressor needed a hard start kit.
It will go out again soon that high side was 350 plus . Once it runs for a while it will probably cut back off . Just because it’s running doesn’t mean it’s running efficiently and it probably runs all day just to try to keep it cool.. due to the age and conditions it needs to be upgraded
Last summer I worked for a guy who would condemn a unit with bad capacitor and/or plugged coils.. He told me "You are right, but I'm teaching you how to make money". SMH.
He's on Yelp with 1 star.. I completely agree with all the reviews. Especially the one about him arguing with customers. On the first day he went to a condenser and put his and on the fan exit and said '"Good Delta T". He didn't even check pressures and told the customer that he tested them "The pressures are good.". He put his hand up to a register and said '"Feels good to me" the place was hot as hell and wrote up a $150 invoice. The customer started complaining and he went off about how he has spent over an hour there. We were there for no longer than 4 or 5 minutes.
At the first evacuation, I got the pump and noticed the oil was black. I told him "oil is to be changed at every site or after every 20 hours of use at a site". He told me "I use the lifetime oil". I told him that I never heard of lifetime oil. He told me "See, you learn things every day.". Needless to say, the pump couldn't pull down below 2500 microns. The next day I told him that I couldn't find anything about lifetime oil in the RAC book or on the internet. He told me " Your school [Peterson in Woburn] is a complete joke. You should avoid books and the internet. Just listen to me because I am a master refrigeration guy. with 35 years." I looked him up on the state website. No legal company, so he has no insurance. He has a journeyman gas fitter license from the 70's. That was it.
Nice fix Steve!
9:46 You found a chicken snack.
Hey did anybody catch when Steve plugged back in the service after he installed the hot start kit that fire jumped out of the service box?
joe Z I’m getting old so I thought my eyes were playing tricks on me so I rewound it five times
Normal arcing with those pull out disconnects when you plug it back in and an appliance is on, calling, and theres a big draw. Think about it, there is a split second between the prongs hitting the power terminals and pushing it locked in place. #spark
I usually just use the breakers in the main panel.. those pull out disconnects scare the shit out of me. If its not brand new i dont even touch it.
Deviled Eggs just check outside with a meter to make sure both legs aren’t hot. You can’t see if a breaker is open on both legs. Those pull out discos make me nervous as well!
Another great video. Nuthin Steve can’t handle. AC related question if you get the chance, are there any downsides to adding a hard start kit; why not add one on every unit if it makes life easier for the compressor?
9:45 what's up grasshopper?
Would it have been worth it to check the current usage while running to see if the compressor was drawing excessive current?
Perhaps...but he's a hero today and they'll still call him when it blows up.
Fucking cap.. just replace it all! Keep it up steve!
I hate to be that guy but its “supposedly” brother man. Great video!
Yep. Came here just for that. Was going to leave my own comment. Bugs me to no end.
This guy has so much money he doesn't care lol
Wow that’s crazy but cool 😎 Peace ✌️
Good job brother 🎼🎶🎺🌅 from Florida
Good job Steve! Even got the hose out. 👍🏻
Good job Steve honesty the best policy !
Back from the dead! Steve put life back into that unit. Nice job.
Should of ohmed out compressor and checked for short to ground on all three leads on compressor where we could see, maybe next time.
Your the man Steve.
I wonder who services those other a/c units.....hopefully not the first a/c conman
honest house
What was your meter on for testing the cap?
most meters will do it microfarids
Microfarred (i have no idea if thats spelt correctly) mfd is short
Now the "ground fault" guy will tell them that a hard start is something only hacks do. And his company only does quality work. Then he'll throw in some BS about how you want it to be reliable, it's going to break when you need it the most, and when it breaks nobody will be available to fix it. Then somehow he'll throw in how a new system will be safer and better for the children. And the people will buy his bs because they are stupid brain-dead office worker types
the bottom line is he could not get it running ....i did,, so who do you think looks a hack ??? or clueless
The actual issue was that the compressor was pulling locked rotor and tripping the breaker but idiots call everything shorted if they dont know better. Typically, the salesman.
People sense when they are being taken advanced of. A contractor who is honest will get lots of clients.
Awesome video & integrity Steve! The Lord's going to bless you with a free hotrod car to add to your collection.
😆
great work
it looks like it was shorted to ground..... after the cap was removed.
👍👍 nice work
Lots of ripoff artists around especially lawyers
I seen this a little to many times when I was out doing this for a living big companies too and was almost always the older people to
What is your opinion on those variable rated caps ( I call them ), the ones packaged with short leads almost like a one size fits all type deal. Any good ?
More350Power talking about the Turbo200’s? American made, excellent 5 year warranty, and high quality - but they often require refitting the band because they’re larger than standard and they’re pricey compared to the cheap Chinese made. If you only have room for 2 caps on your truck or you’re in a market that doesn’t nickel and dime you to death there’s nothing better imo.
Yes
Giving it the old how ya doing
Those century 10 units are total pile of shits though. Leaks from compressor service valve blocks and from soldered lines inside units. I've also seen their lines rust out inside the unit, maybe some kind of impure copper?
I speak Grasshopper and at the end of this good production it said ValueTesters is a good sponsor ... Lol ... Miss Molly looking very dapper today ...
an older 10 SEER system. it should of been replaced along time ago. looks like the compressor is newer a reciprocating Copeland hermetic compressor. as the other systems are Goodman's. i seen a video another company servicing a Nordyne unit it has a Microchannel coil in it so Nordyne is as bad as York now.
That unit just had a stay of execution it's on borrowed time. Would have told the customer to expect to be replacing it soon.
Yeah either way that unit needs to be replaced within the next year or 2 lol. He just hang another ac company over something he almost couldnt even fix. Not hating on the dude but i hate how other companies try to hang me sometimes over the dumbest shit.
Example, i had to go to a guys house with 9 ac units and they were all old junk units except a few that he's had to replace. He absolutely didnt trust me because im young and people think ac is close to rocket science. Did maintenance on units, half of them i could barely even clean up because they were already so far gone. All was well. 6 months later i come back and do it all again.
All of the sudden an issue pops up the next day (heat strip was staying on for some reason causing system to partially start a fire or at least smoke up the guys duct work. Who knows why, i didnt even get to look but i did take the faceplate off of the stat for the first time in its life and maybe that triggered something).
Dude calls another ac company out and first thing they said was that the dudes units were dirty AF and somehow it was my fault. GREAT. I told my office and they completely understood but it still bothers me.
Steve. Go back to 6:25 and you'll be able to see some sparkage when you reinstalled the breaker/disconnect. Is that normal for that type of disconnect?
I will give her the old gundy, grasshoppa...
It could go another week it could go another 5 years. I'd take my chances and with the hard start and see how long it lasts.
Good job. Guys I know want to install a new system without hardly taking alook
Would love to see a video of you working on one of your cars or another cooking video would be awesome. But don't get me wrong I love your regular videos too
I lol'ed at "Give it the old - how you doin mama?"
Is the cricket your new junior mechanic Steve ?
Good afternoon
Steve gave the ole compressor a how ya doin mama!
Awesome work Steve you saved that customer a Boat Load of $$$$ Momma!
anyone have a good capacitance tester d
Fluke makes a good multimeter one.
Looks like you made a new friend Jiminy cricket
It seems that HVAC repair men are getting so greedy these days. There are also a lot of incompetent techs and installers too. Those bad installers have given Goodman a bad name.
No goodman gave itself a bad name to the service techs.... you ever try to replace a blower motor in a goodman front draw unit? Nearly impossible. You gotta drop the drain pan, evap coil and remove all of the electrical..... theres other components i can name but im not here to rant.
@@Straight_White_Fatherly_Figure Yes Goodman gave themselves a bad name for a variety of reasons. Internet sales/ lax policies on who they sell to, and worst yet poorly designed products. In fairness much of that on the resi stuff seems to have improved or at least as crappy as most of the rest of the crap.
Give it the ole boost mama
Someone has been in that unit and might have gave that unit a death blow.
Holy jumping good grief...Do you ever know your business... Amazing Steve!!!
Grasshoppers are treats for chickens
Scumbag people always try to rip people off
Steve you and Molly need to sell them a service plan. Peace brother
Call Steve once a year and he'll service it. Charges by the hour. How's that for a service contract
"Shorted to ground" == Lazy, ignorant, dishonest. Pick one or more. Should the system have been replaced? Maybe, but, that doesn't give the tech an excuse to deceive the customer.
We he had to put a start cap and cap. The low side pressures were high. No amp test on start or run.. I've seen compressors appear to be to ground and started later. I've also seen windings open and started after the compressor cooled. All those incidents I was following a tech... My company's tech.
@@garyglanz403 given the first tech said "shorted to ground", I suspect either A) he decided that after finding a popped breaker, or B) find "open windings" (internally tripped) and mistakingly called that "shorted". As I said in my original comment, I don't necessarily believe that cap and go, gas and go, hard start and go is always in the customer's best interest, but, I do believe it IS the customer's decision. I wasn't present with the first tech so I don't actually know what happened. I have fixed countless systems that the previous tech declared dead for things as simple as a worn out contactor, an open cap, a loose wire, a dead condenser fan motor, a faulty low or high pressure cutoff, etc.. I never know whether the previous tech was lazy/ignorant/dishonest but I do know they didn't provide an appropriate diagnosis.
Granted, things might have been different when the first tech was present, but, surely, not as often as I do 2nd opinions.
Ya, time to change out that old girl. She’s had her time.
Honesty is the best policy-your gonna get flooded with calls which i bet your already up to your a#$ in--peace
A good how ya doin momma?
👍
It will go out again soon that high side was 350 plus . Once it runs for a while it will probably cut back off . Just because it’s running doesn’t mean it’s running efficiently and it probably runs all day just to try to keep it cool.. due to the age and conditions it needs to be upgraded
Run a window unit I need my food stamps
lets hope trump make your sorry ass work for what you get . loser