 But sometimes bad things happen, and it happens. So we're going to go look at a walk-in freezer that's not working correctly and see what's going on. It's on call Saturday, so let the party begin. All right, so it's not running. So we might be stuck in a defrost. Looking at our coil up here. I can't see. Can you see? Because I can't see. I don't feel heaters on. I can't literally see it, but it appears from what I'm seeing from here that they're clean. So I bet you we're stuck in a defrost. That's really going to make this thing take a boring loop on it. Thermostat could use some help, but it's been like that for a while. So they said the ice cream is feeling a little soft, and it is. Fans are the same speed. What the heck? That's very unusual. That is weird. That is definitely weird. Helps the meat. The meat's hard. At least the meat is hard. So we're good there on that. So it hasn't been down too horribly long. That meat's a little soft. Nobody likes soft meat. The fish, though, it's a little bit in between. It's kind of limp. It's just a little limp. So let's go upstairs and see if we're getting our power down here to it and kind of go from there. All right, so we've already had to replace the cooler. At least that's working. Ended up having to reuse things, but I replaced that fan cycle control back in September last year. That ain't good. Here's something humming. It's a little bit warm. They may have lost this turd. They may have went to the Grande Grande. They may have left the building. That's not good. Not good at all. That sure sounds like the compressor's twisted off and just running. Changed that back September also. That's me writing. Is that just vibration? It's not the clock. Clock's out of the juice. What's going on with this turd? What's going on? Let's check some voltages here and see if we're getting the power out to where it needs to go to. Clock has got no power. I wonder if this is three phase and we lost a leg. How much do you want to bet? Because I don't have no power between the two. What do we got as far as going to ground? 120 volts on that leg. And because it's looping through it, it's 120 on the other. Let's push one more time. Yep. So we lost one leg of power. That's not a good thing. Let's take a look at this high-tech box here. Yep, we've got fuses. That's not good. All FRN 20s. Can you guys see that OK? Because I want to make sure you can see it because it don't really matter if I can see it. All right, coming into the top, we've got 214. 215. 212. 13. Going to the bottom. Jack, a little loose goose there and got it there. So I'm going to say, are we loose on this one? Nope, let's go to this one. The middle one is the psychopathic killer that took this chert out. Now, if it was shorted, I would assume we tripped more than one leg. Now, what sucks is, because it only took out one leg, we've been single-phasing for a while. So we can go ahead and, for giggles here, go ahead and check continuity to ground to see if we've got any bad, bad shorts. This ain't the only way to do it, nor the best way to do it. But it's definitely a fast way to do it. So the first stage, we have nothing there. So we may have just lost one leg. You should replace all three fuses. But in this instance here, I'm going to replace just the one for starters. And we'll see what we got. So we've got it replaced, just the one. We'll replace the rest of them if we can verify everything works. Check amperage on that particular leg here. See what happens. 48 amps. That ain't good. We may have a stuck compressor. That's not good at all. Curiosity. See what this other leg pulls. Nine amps, and the compressor came on. Now granted, it might have been single phasing still. So let's see what happens now. So we might have a short on that particular leg. Something weird's going on there. Now out of curiosity, because I love the curious cat, let's see what this leg ends up pulling here. And as always, guys, if you're not trained on electrical, don't be doing what I'm doing. I'm not responsible for you killing yourselves. This is not for homeowners, business owners, to try to get out of paying somebody. So six amps on that one. So this leg here is not a very happy leg. And yes, I'm doing it again. Now we have eight amps. That's bothersome. What the piss? Was it by chance that it tripped again by the time I turned it off and back on again? This compressor is in bad shape. I mean, look at these valves. You can't even do nothing with that. This thing's been here for a long, long, long time. And die. Solid sight glass. Now I'm wondering, did we have an issue in defrost? Is that what maybe caused it? So let's see. My fan's even coming on, so we know that's not it. Put it into a defrost, 13 amps. So the elements come on immediately, which sucks. 10 amps and 5 amps. So our biggest one is right there. So it's pumping down. There could be a short in our wiring somewhere. Just such issues. OK, so we're at 7 amps. Not sure yet what we've got going on here. I'll tell you this much. If we just replace the fuse and go, it's going to happen again. So we've got something that is intermittent, whether it be a defrost element downstairs. Could have a shorted, freaking, depressor crank case heater. Could be a fan. It's really hard to say. So we'll kill some power here and see if we've got any shorts up here, because this is not a great idea. And the phone rings again. All right, so when it rains, it pours. Somebody else just called in, so we've got another call after we get done with this. Let's see if we can find out if there's any issues with this, which it don't look like. Oh, lucky there. What is that? Are you going to tell me I'm going to get that lucky? I'll come wandering away. I'm going to pull that off here. Unfortunately, it didn't look like it was shorted into anything, but I did flip it around so that it ain't rubbing up against that vibrate. Let's take a peek in here. Take a peek at the compressor stuff. Coil looks good. That's a poor man's freaking low ambient control there, because it is freaking cold today for some reason. Better than it was. You know, we're near as bad as our air conditioner over there. That thing is bad. It is nipply out here. So basically, this contactor is looking potentially a little bit shoddy, but I don't know if it was maybe one leg sticking, because you can see two here have more arcing going on than there. So generally, when in doubt, change it out. But still, oh, look at that. Look at that wire right there. That just kind of came off, didn't it? That ain't good. That could cause some issues. Well, there's all kinds of happy stuff happening today. Where did that come from? I came from right there. And I think that is the fan cycle. Yeah, like a lucid. That thing's just loose. What's that going to? Goes out of there. Goes to the fan. Yes, sir. Get that back on there. That would not cause 40-some amps of current on just one leg. Got some shrouds, some shades, or that's kind of a cruddy looking wire. Ooh, that looks kind of shitty, don't it? That wire looks pretty shitty. Pull that out of there. Look at this wire. It's all cracking and stuff. That's really fantastic. So let's chop that one out and put a new crimp on it and stick it back in the same spot. That's an insulated connector. See where it says insulated? The one that looks like a smiley face, and then non-insulated is the pokey one? You don't use the pokey one. Some reason, nobody seems to understand that. Then they punch the backside of it with it when they do it, which the barrel on cheap connectors is not a full circular barrel. So then the front opens up, which is a bad idea. All right, so we look fairly OK there. I'm still wondering, did we have an issue with the single phasing, possibly? And they just hadn't completely cooled down. Let's try it out again. 70 amps, because we're in defrost. Yeah, this is going to be one of those ones where I'm probably going to have to come back, because we ain't going to catch it doing it. That sucks. Let's pump her down again, and let's look at that clock a little closer. I want to check him back behind those wires. I don't want to just shut it off. It is funny that that one there is the highest of all the ones when it goes into the defrost. So we just checked in there. Everything seems to be fine. I'm checking down in the areas where the wire is going down through. Don't see anything there. Check down in this area here. Termination wire that's no longer used. Bottoms that I can see. Not good at all. Let's go downstairs and look at that evaporator, make sure there's no heater defrost heaters that have got any shorter wires on them. All right, so this is less than idea. The way these professionals wired this up, they went right through the freaking back of the door here. So everything's tight up against this panel. You can see with the thermostats kind of just hanging by its own demeanor. So we got some fuses in here. Let's take some more looks. I need both hands. All right, we're going to go ahead and change this fan control because the brackets busted off of it. And they disconnected it for some reason. So I'm going to say probably because it don't work. Yeah, it's really hard to see much of anything right now. So I'm kind of cheating, however I can, to get this thing back into place just to make it a little easier. There's one screw here. I think the other one we're going to have to use the screwdriver on it. The problems with coolers is they're so small that a lot of times you can't reach anything because everything's in the way. I also had two fuses here that didn't look like they might be any good. And because my tools are up on the roof, I got my beater meter, which is a UEI piece of junk. And right there is the reason why I don't like UEI. It's freaking displayed, blanks out, and does dumb stuff. And it's a little cold. It's not ready to work. That may give you this cheap leads. Both fuses are okay. Here's the red one. Yeah, that yellow one I cut, that goes to the limit. That's nice. Have to fix that. Okay, so luckily that will go up there and hook right back on. So we'll just undo. There's the brown. It looks like it goes to a brown up on the roof. So we can hook that back up. I prefer to have the termination on there. I had set it at 35 minutes and I don't think it's been causing any problems. But any time you can use that, the better y'all if you're gonna be. I don't know why we can't maybe put a screw in that thing so that maybe it won't fall it over like a lump noodle. Those freaking wires are so dang hard. It's a strip and they're cold like that. Yeah, usually that works really good. Today ain't one of those days. So all that's hooked back up. I don't see any shorts here. I mean, there could be an element shorted. I have a feeling maybe we were single phasing. Let's fix this thermostat here so there's not all yanky dink. Oh, we got it apart checking. I'll also see if we can see deep in there and make sure there's no shorted wires. Which it does not look to be. Everything looks pretty tight. Yeah, I think we're pretty good on that. Don't make it too tight and cause it to bend the body. That would be bad. Okay, there we go. It's not overly tight because that will bend it and cause it to not be accurate potentially. I know it is like that on some of the other thermostats. Don't know if it's quite like that on this one, so. All right, so we're gonna wrap this one back up. I don't see anything out of the ordinary that should be causing our issue. Ice cream's too soft. Too soft, right? Yeah, the ice cream's junk. It's bad. People like to dissolve the ice cream. Yeah, it's sloppy, sloppy. They no deserve. No deserve today. It's less than ideal, but it is behind the cooler. It's not hanging and hopefully nobody destroys this thing. Let's go back upstairs and see if we can get this thing running. We did at least get it as good as can be. I don't, like I said, see any major issues. Let's get this thing froze down. Worst case scenario, we keep the food from falling any worse and get our mess cleaned up here. So we've got that back together. We're gonna go ahead and just run this thing. See what we can find out. Go ahead and put her back into love mode. 12 amps coming on. So it must be pumping down a touch. Yeah, it's pumping down. All right, let's let this thing kick on and see what it does. I mean, it's not tripping the breaker now. As you've seen, I've checked about all the wires for scuffs and rub-throughs and things like that. Only thing I'd like to see done yet is hook that brown wire back up to the termination. Assume they hasn't had problems with it not running long enough or something. So instead of replacing things, they probably just bypass and remove, which would not surprise me a whole lot with the way things have been taken care of here. And it could have been done a long time ago. It's really hard to say how long ago that was done is to find out that why they unhooked it because there's a short in the wire causing it to terminate early. So we know we've got 212 volts between X and N. At this point, I'm just gonna leave a go in this attempt to get it. I've got enough heat call to run. All right, so this is gonna be one of those ones. I'm not real happy with that compressor. It's still hot even now. And of course, we're a little low. High side may not be awfully well adjusted. We can check that real quick while we're at it. But it is the season for being cold. Chances are, judging from all this other stuff, probably not gonna be able to get in here. That pressure switch is not doing the greatest of jobs. That pink right there makes you think this crap is 502. I don't know what they may have put in there in since then. They probably have a drop in above 186. Try and do that. There's 175. So we got the fuses replaced. Gonna leave the extra ones here that are better than nothing if by chance, somebody would come and not have them on their truck. Just gonna leave them inside here. Gonna check voltage drop across this contact real quick. I think this happened once before. Nothing there. One last thing I kind of almost forgot to look at, not that we can get a good look at it anyway, because there's stupid valves in the way. This terminals, they look like they're okay on the compressor itself. They seem to be tight. I'm gonna recommend they consider replacing it. This thing is unknown refrigerant. Everything on it's just plain wore out and it's been replaced at one time or another. So that way they know up front. I mean, hello, it's pretty obvious. I mean, a lot of stuff up here is just plum, plum about wore out. So we're gonna go ahead and get down, double check those fans and see how that looks. Otherwise, probably gonna have to go into our no heat call that's waiting on me. That's a great thing about Saturdays and or anytime you're on calls, you gotta go. You got time to spend all day on it, especially when it's gonna do some random stuff like this. What you've done is about as best we can. I'll make sure I explain that to them, but it could possibly do it again. You could have something weird going on. I mean, we could have made the compressor. We could have done all kinds of stuff, but we covered the bases as best we can for a day. All right, guys, let's go wrap this one up. So we're back here at this thing again. So I just got here, went downstairs. The fans are not running. What's interesting is, is I've got voltage on all of my fuses this time. Compressor's not hot. Doesn't look like we're in a defrost. I haven't touched anything. Clock's got power at the bottom. Don't forget, it's gotta be cold enough for the fans to come on. So it's the compressor's not running. The coil's not cold enough. So it won't bring on the fans. Our low pressure switch is open. Look at that. We're at about 14 PSI. Normally it comes in at about 20-ish. Check that off for a moment. We can see whether or not it basically goes into a pump down or whether it's a... Okay, so it's not opening the solenoid valve is what it looks like. So we might have a thermostat issue. So either the solenoid or the thermostat's acting up, which that thermostat was looking a little shoddy. So far, so good. Not the same issue we had last time. Let's see what we got going on here. So going across it, it is closed. Let's see if we got power to one leg. We do have power to one leg and we do have power on the other leg. So she is closed. Now we might have a solenoid issue. Masking is so bad in the freezer and it keeps you a little bit warm. We've got a big old ball of ice here on the side. I wonder if I chance it pulled the wire out of the solenoid there. I'm going to turn off the power so I can see what I'm doing. That way I don't get shocked. Like I said, the power is off. So otherwise you're potentially gonna burn up your solenoid here. It could just be a solenoid bad. Find out. Let's go ahead and strip this thing off and see if we got 230 volts to it. It has a hundred and 115 volts. So there's 117. I don't really want to grab a hold of my fingers and hold it. Hold on a minute. We'll be right back. All right, so you just missed everything I just did. Okay, so we came in here with the low impedance meter here. And we came across the terminals. Low impedance meter puts a load on the circuit. So when we come across it, we literally have 115 volts, 116 volts. And going one leg to the other, the black's hot, the red is not. Now we should have continuity to ground technically if it really was a neutral, which I don't think it is. Yeah, it's not. So we go to one leg to ground and we're looking at about 1,900 ohms. So we are definitely got some issues. We check the resistance. I see the fans just came on. So try to hook that. Silicone came in at 720 ohms. I think we got a wire off, so we need to track that down a little bit. Yeah, remember this one is, and going in here, that terminal, I got 215 volts. Yeah, so I'm getting her narrowed down. What is the ceiling noise located now? It's over here. I checked it out and it's fine. The wire was only getting one leg of power. So I checked it over here and I got power. So I have a feeling that here's the fans hitting something. So maybe it's hitting that wire. I'm not sure. I'm gonna take these blades off and take a look underneath and see if maybe one of the fans hit it and maybe that's what caused the short glass time or something, I don't know. So I'm going to get this apart and I'll find out here in a minute. If not, I'll run a new wire. All right guys, what I'm doing is I'm checking here to see if that wire has vibrated into the bracket because that can happen. Does not appear to have done that. One of a gun, there's the short. Can you guys see okay there? We're gonna go ahead and get this fan blade yanked out. There you go. Oh, look at that. This thing shorted out once before cause there's some butt connectors on there. Yeah, that's not my type of crimps. That, it didn't even crimp it very good. Right there is the freaking wire or shorted into that piece of metal which you can see right there. What we're gonna do is chop out that bad section and we'll repair it and then we're going to make sure we strap those nice and tight so they don't vibrate. Black wire looks to be perfectly fine. Red wire who I said basically was slacken is the one that was damaged. So unfortunately, things happen guys. You miss things. You know, you're trying to be the Johnny on the spot and get things done quickly but sometimes bad things happen and it happens. So there are real judge of characters whether you're willing to say, hey, I screwed up or if you want to blame it on somebody else. You know what, I could hide this very easily. There we go. I don't like these crimpers near as well as my clines that are up on the roof because these ones have a weird crimp to them. That's good. They didn't do a very good job on that one. I can't let that go. So let's see if we can get in there and chop out that bad section. There we go. You want to make sure that's lined up to the outside edge corner where your barrel connector is at. Otherwise you crimp the plastic and not the wire. We're going to go ahead. This one tightened up too because the wire tie was kind of loose in here. While you got her down, man, I don't want to come back again. So, good Lord. This is why I like long wire ties. Careful getting in there. You don't want to bend your fan blade. But it can obviously be done. There we go. That spins and that spins. The magnet's out of the magnetrons on the microwave. You can use those. I've got the fancy ones, but that one there, if I lose it, ain't a big deal. All right, so what did we learn today, boys and girls? We learned everybody screws up. I completely forgot about checking in there. I completely, and if you remember, I went through and checked all these wires, replaced the little defrost termination thing, all that. So I didn't try cutting corners. Just freaking forgot. If I would've caught it, wouldn't be back here today. Cause it's worked all week. I mean, today's Friday, and I was on that call last Saturday. So it lasted the whole week without going down. And unfortunately, here it is. It went down. And today's Friday, I ain't on call. So I am okay with it. I am just gonna get the burrito out of here. Okay? If you guys liked the video and you wanna see more like it, you know what to do. Till next time, people. We'll catch you on the next one.