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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.ย. 2024
- In this video I visit a new customer in a hot house! #hvacguy #hvac #airconditioning #hvaclife #hvaclove #hvactrainingvideos #hvactroubleshooting #airconditioner #hvacservice #hvactechnician #motors #motores #skilledtrades #bluecollar #bluecollarpride #carrier #bryant #icedup #nocooling
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House got to 84 today. I looked at the thermostat and there was no power. I noticed a red light on near the air handler. I grabbed my shop vac, went outside and sucked the condensate line out. It was filled with a clear gel like substance. 🤮 Found the float switch, cleaned it out, dried it out and waited 5 mins. BAM. I fixed it!!!
Good ole bio slime
It's a pleasure to watch a competent professional at work. AND spotting the water tank leaking Thanks for the videos
Thanks for watching!
Ur absolutely 💯 right.
Glad you seem honest. A tech came to persons house and tried to talk homeowner into paying $12k to replace the whole upstairs unit, when the evaporator coils was leaking on a two year unit. I kid you not! I told homeowner to get another company to do the warranty work and nothing else!
Makita shaft puller, tshirt bandaids, flying rubber grommets, good stuff…. real field work by a pro in what looked like crappy weather conditions
Pleasure to watch you on service calls, reminds me of the good old days
- retired hvac tech on west coast 🍻
You're a trooper, but always look after your health. I was thinking 'I hope he lifts that connector off of the cabinet'. You did not disappoint, by using the tie wrap to keep it off the wet surface. Thanks for professionalism.
Hello Curtis. No disrespect at all. I had to laugh when you became frustrated with boxing up failed motor. I was waiting for you to say lovely. You're awesome, honest and very respectful.
I’m impressed with your professionalism and patience. That must really suck working in that cramped and closed space! You take on the tough ones all the time. 👍
Curtis, why you don't have a bottle of water by your side, the last thing you need is to get dehydrated
Or Gatorade/Powerade
You sir are the Georga Guru of HVAC, I MEAN YOU ARE THE BEST THING THAT'S HAPPENED TO HVAC IN GEORGIA EVER.
BAR NONE!!!
Thanks
I was yelling when you pinched that tstat wire in the panel! Glad you heard me! I wish the A/C service tech that came to my house today had the same professional attitude you have Curtis!! Great video! But please watch the heat, it can do a lot of damage to you before you know what's happening.
We ALL know you have found a New Satisfied Customer who is now going to Cool Down thanks to your strong efforts under these Humid conditions. 👍🙏
For the cost of those ECM motors the reliability should be way better than they are. Those brutally hot days are dangerous to your health for sure. Stay hydrated and don’t over exert yourself! Been there done that and it definitely takes a day or so to recover
Sounded like the T&P valve went bad, easy fix. I remember those hot days fixing A/C's in Dallas, brutal. Stay safe.
Curtis, I would change that chisel bit shown in this video to like a 3/8 inch diameter masonry bit so you can get it inside the fan hub and not damage the internal diameter (as has happened in another video).
As I see you working on these sometimes very hot and potentially dangerous days have you considered a phase change vest and a 12v freezer chest for your truck? Each set of inserts that can be recharged by placing in a freezer for 20-30 minutes will last 1-3 hours depending on outside temperatures. Not sure how well this would work for you and the whole setup with buying the vest and extra inserts and a 12v freezer can be a bit pricey, but an electrician friend of mine swears by them for the summer months and he ended up buying them for his whole crew.
Hot and humid. That's what makes this business go.
Fan motor replacement sounds so simple but it is clear can see how it deserves several hundred dollars charge. TWO trips to the store geez what a rigamarole.
Good job
Very professional
Instead of using simple plier you should use hub puller tool for removing blower and
You should keep pieces of metal pipes of different sizes to strike blower back on motor shaft ..
Small solutions from a technician in kuwait 🙂
Go ahead and give them a quote for the water heater 🤣 thanks for the video.
I was quoted $ 800.- for a blower motor for my air handler; we replaced the A/H and New Evap. coil with TXV for $ 1500.- Better deal.-
Please get a bottle of Nuskin for your first aid kit. It stings, but will close and cover minor wounds almost immediately.
Nice fix.
❤🎉awesum..!.Curtis for.President!!🎉🎉🎉🎉
The good ‘ol ECM. Costing homeowners more than ever! I’ve seen more ECMs and VFDs fail in the last 8 years than PSCs total in the last 20.
Iced up coilatietis!
Who is sweating more? You or the AC? It must have been a cooker that day.
Well done Curtis on a very hot day, you earned another cold beer today, only 14c this morning in Oz 🙁 Au
U are a grat technician I'm down in Florida we are busy
Thanks
its not the dinosaur next to it, its the modern high efficiency unit that has the problem, as usual. needless to say that defrost sensor isnt working on that evaporator
Here's a little free advice for window ac, make sure to clean the filter on time. its important... There's a little light that comes on mine to remind me to clean it 😅. Also i clean both the inside coil and the outside coil at least once a year. (Sometimes 2x a year depending on the hurricanes/weather. Also I clean the little hamper wheel fan once a year with a soft toothbrush (being gentle). Helps keep the old ac cooling 🧊.
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Excellent video, enjoyed it a lot! Very good work!
Thanks a lot!
Curtis to customer - - Well I have Good news and Bad news. Good news the blower motor part is replaced under warranty. Bad news you need to call a plumber - water heater is shot - -$500 plus bill on the way. LOL Stay cool, only 5 more months till winter.
I plumber will charge $ 1500.- for an electric water heater; I noticed it didn't have flex connectors; so make it $ 2000.- even.
Ultimate hub puller. Mike drop😊
Curtis I like the multi-purpose lineman's pliers used as a hammer! lol
Ah, the relief you must feel when it's not all rusted together!
You sweating more the evaporator coil dripping😅
You need one of those magnetic cups to hold those screws that you take out. I was especially on the edge of my seat the other day when you were on that elevated unit checking the TXV for leaks.
I didn't see anything dripping out of the drain at the end.
This Customer will also need to find a different Contractor to Replace their Leaking Water Heater. 🤔👍
Nice work Curtis.
Love your videos!!!
Glad you like them!
Great job,Curtis!
I'm about to start my first service call job, watching your videos has taught me a lot. Thanks! and Roll Tide
Same thing had to be replaced on my
Perfect tools for jobs.
Sorry to see the small injury. It happens to me all the time tinkering with my cars 😂😂😂😂
Belo reparo de troca de moto ventilador da unidade, o chato que era em baixo da casa. Um bom dia parabéns Brasil.
Thanks
Nice job as usual. Not a trailer or warrant work. whoo hoo.
1 van payment complete here
Should you not pull the fuses out or place a sign on the breaker in case someone switches it back on while your working under the house
Water & high voltage electricity, a dangerous combination.
I can feel your pain in this video. I don't do AC work (other than changing out my blower motor), but I have been in many similar situations.
I would have changed to psc motor, hate those ecms to dang expensive and they fail all the time
$500 for a motor is freaking nuts
I’m not impressed with the lifespan of the motor.
How much should it be?
Give me a PSC motor all day, ECM motors are horrible 😫
Wonder if the motor was bad or the ECM part?
Thank you your vido helped me the home owner fix on Hvac system . Great Job keep up the good work. God bless if your ever out in Phoenix AZ let me know .
Glad it helped
Field dressing, greasy piece of rag/shop towel and electrical tape and all good, from an ex Navy corpsman attached to Marine grunts
Go Navy
Another excellent video 👍 👍
Thanks
Easy one Curtis
👍👍👍Has anyone noticed about the motor and the fan housing 😎☕
Good lord man, get a wheel puller!
I don't understand peoples thought process. "My air conditioner isn't cooling my house, but I'm going to leave it turned on anyway." ............
But why is it hot in the house with all that ice in there? 😂
so you’re the guy responsible for over tightening set screws
500 your cost, holy shit. Been a couple of years, last one I replaced was less then 200... Mine was a trane... is Bryant more expensive? Got mine through granger. Was a universal but working perfectly. Have to wire correctly for speed... Not an HVAC tech but not afraid to try. I like your work, not always telling your clients, have to replace the unit... Fix the issue or give the client the option. 😊
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Where did all the water from the ice go? The ground under the condensate line is dry.
The drain pan and the PVC pipes sending the water outside somewhere.
You noticed that too? 🤔
@@frankm7707 It's comes out of the wall by the outside unit.
Your shins must be a pretty purple color??
hey curtis sounds like its hot as S there. that system calls for 15 degrees subcooliing and you gauges said 1.3 degrees with high super heat. I would think that is under charged. That would cause the system to run more than usual right?
If you ain't bleeding in hvac you ain't working hard enough or so it seems.
😂
These things should be converted to psc , for the price of the motor alone .
Its a carrier with bad ecm, wow shocked
Hey Curtis, like always love all your videos, but I have a question. I see that you use the Milwaukee press tool often. What model do you have and where do you buy your fittings?
I just made the big move and bought the press tool, not cheap as you know lol but I was looking for fittings and the ones that I saw said Plumbing so I wanted to know if those were compatible with refrigerant, also I see that you use the filter dryers specifically made for press tools. Where do you get those as well.
Thank you for your help in advance
Victor
If they say plumbing they’re not. I use RLS fittings, and Mueller/Streamline ACR fittings. I use the Milwaukee 32 kN long throw press tool. HVAC fittings are not the same as the propress or plumbing fittings.
Thank you for your quick response Curtis, I bought the Milwaukee 2922-22M kit which brings the jaws from 1/4 to 7/8 and as far as the fittings, I will start looking into it
once again thank you so much for your quick response
get some ice packs for neck
Question, how does a unit get all condensation like that, and how to fix that or correct that?
Picture it like a glass with ice and a soft drink in it. In the summer it will be dripping with sweat. The ice/frost inside that air handler with nonfunctioning blower will cause the metal envelope to sweat lots when there is no blower motor. Once the system starts moving air again, the outside moisture will reduce, similar to an insulated cup.
4 year old unit with burned out blower motor 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
What do you think of those Nidec rescue motors with the EZI module for the 16 pin ecm 2.3.
Can you please explain why working that warranty complicates things for you?
was that a bunch of spray foam canisters in the flower bed? 1:13
That is for irrigation
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Does an ECM motor not have a start capacitor? Wondered why you didn't check the capacitor first.
No
Is there any time cut from this video or is that how long it took to change motor?
I would charge 10000dollars for that job
Do you not own a motor puller? Should be at the supply house.
Sure I do
If I watch them all I can start working faster
Did you install new water heater?
Leave that to a plumber
Injury on the field
Why would a blower motor cause iceing?
Is that a freeze stat on the coil?
Ouch
Whats the best are easy a/c unit to work on
Now aren't the OEM motors more reliable than the aftermarket parts?
That what they say but the difference in price for an OEM X13 and an Evergreen aftermarket is double usually. So 350 vrs 700 cost to contractor before mark up, which one do you think the customer is going to pick if they are out of warranty? ECM motors can go a long way though if you are good about replacing filters, and have an unplugged coil though. I find that they go bad more often when they are trying to run on a reduced static pressure because they run full speed all the time. I usually convert negligent customers or cheaper customers to psc motors.
@@alejandromata825 Reliability and quality is king with HVAC. As a consumer I would want the system to last as long as possible. Money isn't the be all and and all. Especially with HVAC costing thousands to replace.
@@nathenzuber4021 Everybody’s economy is different and if you have the economy to replace an OEM ECM out of warranty more power to you. But I did just give you some good honest bits of information there. If a unit is out of warranty chances are it is likely 10 or more years older if it is a split system, 5 if it’s a water source heat pump, at least where I’m at. Spending $1000 or more on a 10 year old unit to buy an OEM out of pocket requires considerable thinking, that’s not smart money! On the other hand, even if the aftermarket motor lasts 2-3 years, which it could last more if like I said the airflow is right you might be extending a 10 or more year old unit another 4 years which is a win considering that all the units manufactured 10 years ago or later were diminished in quality considerably. The days of units lasting 20 or more years are all but gone. Copper piping in the coils aren’t even spect out to the same wall thickness, compressor insulation quality is not the same, and electronic control versus electro mechanical controls will almost certainly guarantee that a unit will give you headaches way earlier and more expensive than they used to. Don’t like it, you can thank the bean counters and globalization for that! And finally if you really want to bleed a rock that keeps breaking on you I mentioned that I can easily switch it up at will into a psc motor that will be even cheaper and probably even last longer, just like I can take an older unit with an expensive or discontinued board and rewire it to work without the board but with all the safeties. So no, it’s not the OEM part that makes a unit run the longest, it’s the mechanic that knows what they are doing are willing to discuss all the angles with you to make an older unit work while making you aware of the exact cost to benefit ratio. I will tell you this, regardless of whatever ECM motor I install for someone out of warranty OEM or not, if there is an airflow issue that I see and you don’t address it when I replace the motor I wouldn’t guaranty it on my end. Same thing with compressors on older units with plugged evaporator or condenser coils, or if I notice a faulty or improperly functioning metering device, or faulty reheat loops and hot-gas bypasses on larger commercial units.
Caption please
That unit isn’t level at all
Broadocean motors are absolute garbage. If i see one in a customer's unit even if it still works i warn them about them to prepare them for the cost thats coming.
window ac brand motor... this stuffs getting more and more pathetic
I dont want to offend you i swear. But you might want to get your lungs checked out. You sound like you have labored breathing. Unfortunatley that is a perk doing what we do for a living. Take care of yourself man. Get checked out. Throw in the towel if you have to.... youve done enough live long.