Old Goettl AC Repair - Part I

Well my brother called me Sunday when his AC quit. He is renting a house from my uncle that is otherwise just loaded full of storage crap.

The 25 year old Goettl Heat Pump is still chucgging along. The actual problem was the t-stat went bad and shorted the transformer.

He told me the t-stat was reading 32 degrees so all I brought with me was my tool bag and a t-stat. He lives over an hour away from me.

So we were depserate for a transformer to get it running so we went to Home Depot. The only thing they had was a sprinker transformer. 24VAC 25 Watts.
I thought it would last over night but it quit just 2 hours later.

Be sure to watch Part II when I went back Monday to fix it with the right parts. Part II was also taken with my usual Kodak where Part I was kind of crappy because I used my phone.

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• Jason

[classifiedinfo]

My grandmother's condo has that same goddamn thermostat linked up with the Goodman featured in 2 of my videos. Piece of shit!

Also, I have never heard of Goettl. Who made it?

[hackfreehvac]

Goettl is the brand. They were here in Arizona. But they got bought out a few years back and now only their good name is being used, or should I say RUINED! I think they are slapping Goettle badges on Goodman's now. At least that's what I was told. The Goettle's form the 70's and 80's were tanks and some are still running. Hey, if you go check out that video of me fixing a Goettle at my brother's house, you will see one from the late 70's early 80's. The toughest A/C ever made and used in AZ.

[worldlinerai]

Weren't the Chronotherms top-of-the-line T-stats when they first came out?

[MrPhoenix28]

Hell yea.. it's funny his calls a Honeywell T-Stat a piece of shit.. and then throws in the new vision pro with intelligent recovery made by none other than Honeywell. Someone please tell me who sells more T-Stats than Honeywell?

[hackfreehvac]

It was a Piece of Shit because it was worn and blew the transformer. :-P And in today's standards, it's a POS. But not as bad as "BraeBurn". LOL@ THOSE Piece of Shit t-stats. They are a new brand built off of yesterday's techknowledgy. I can't believe you took every word in this video seriously. It was a joke video of the house my brother rents. People who know me knew the joke.

[hackfreehvac]

They made Chronotherm I, II, III, IV before starting the VisonPro line.

[INTOGUNS1]

Man I live in louisiana with 110 degree heat and 100 percent humidity and I would take a goodman over carrier or trane anyday. We don't really have that many problems with them here.

[annesophie82]

I have a Goettl and that just died. The repairman said that he couldn't fix. He said the compressor was blown and the parts for it no longer exist. Is this true? Or did he just want to sell me a new unit? Thx

[classifiedinfo]

@TheForreal12 Why are you asking me? I know about a lot about HVAC, but I don't know anything about Goettls. I'd never even heard of Goettl until I saw this video. This is isn't even my video...

Maybe you should ask the guy who made this video??? HackFreeHVAC is a licensed HVAC tech in Arizona, and this was his brother's Goettl in the video.

[TheForreal12]

@classifiedinfo have question putting on 12yr old goettl 5ton heatpump pkge and the 24volt wiring system is here and there.. the circuit board does not have the standard wiring hookups fpr t-stat. board says---- hold , 24, com, other initials cant read. im looking for - y,r,g,o,..... how do i do the wiring from tstat to unit? tstat- is wired r to r , y to y g to g, o to o.. thats how i got wired from tstat to roof. where do they go into unit ?

[suprservtech]

i can only imagine how satisfied the renter is with his energy bills every month. good thing for the dollar menus huh.but be pround little timmy will get he toy with his meal.