 so everybody loves a generator call so let's go take a look over here at this generator see what it's doing we've got one here that didn't want to start the other day ladies grandson came out and checked it added some oil to it said all the things were flashing which it's hard to say exactly what it was flashing got a remote control verifier there that's got no radio signal and as you can see there the air filter luckily has a metal mesh behind it because the mice came in and got in there dug a little bit of that filter out look at the oil there well seems to be perfectly on the money so they got that set right up so let's see if our linkage here is okay that's smashed down all the way like i said i usually lift that up just a little bit so it doesn't actually touch the plastic you don't want to do it much because you want to do its choke mechanism there but you just want to keep a little bit of a gap to help keep it from freezing into place because when it gets down to the zeros it tends to want to stick and i ain't saying they're all like that but they have something the factory told me years back and just always do it let's go ahead and see what this thing does in manual mode we checked and verified that we have utility voltage in here directed the clock got that set right changed her exercise time to in the evening when she's home to actually notice that it's running this does have lights out here on the side so i'm gonna have to let her know about those we should have the servo here go back and forth we should see the choke open and close and hopefully it starts let's see what happens i like playing games with it by you know missing with the air intake there to see if it counters it that it's paying attention to the frequency that it's trying to maintain which should be holding right at 60 i believe with this model this is a honeywell slash it might as well as call it a generic because honeywell don't really make it what i also want to do because i say it all the time the number one killer of a generator is the battery it's a maintenance free which means you can't maintain it let's see if we can get this thing out of here without shortening it out this was a really crap design they came out with as you can see it doesn't fit in there right so you got to kind of lift it up twist it sideways talk to it dirty and see if you can get it out of there gotta be careful when you're leaning the back that you don't short it out into the freaking regulator back here we got it out you can see we're starting to swell out here on the side unfortunately the guys didn't pop out the date here so no real good way other than to look for letters and stuff like that on the edges of the battery to see if we can get a date out of this thing unfortunately i'm not seeing those right now there's f2 that don't mean squat we can do a load test on it we can do a hard core test which they don't recommend or we can do my electronic one which i'll probably do here in a second we can see here that the voltage is definitely up there this is a crappy little tester about the only thing it's good for is the 100 amp draw load that puts on it you can see that it's definitely above 12 and a half volts area so it's definitely charging we're gonna put the load on it we're gonna watch and see if that needle goes down slow or does it drop really fast and does it get down below 11.2 area which sometimes you're better off to use your digital meter than this meter here but let's try that it's going down really slow had a little bit of a drop there for a minute seems to be holding pretty good but just had a drop okay and you don't want to do that more than 10 seconds it held pretty good and you can see that it's slowly coming back up generally the battery is weak it's going to dive all the way down and then rock it right back up because the charger is holding it in there so the battery is probably not too bad it doesn't tell you a true state which is why you want to use your electronic nice thing about that was is we didn't have to unhook it from the charger to do it now the electronic one i always isolate the battery from it now we did just put a little bit of a load on it so you know it's whether or not that skews the numbers we'll see here in a minute i think what we're going to find out is it was probably low on oil i went through the history and it said undervoltage well we were down to anywhere from zero to five degrees out this does not have a cold weather start kit on it which says start kits usually have a battery warmer plate that goes underneath the battery that square spot and then a oil warmer here that goes around the oil filter and that helps keep the oil nice and warm at least in the oil filter section so once it starts to crank it pulls out hot oil into the engine which then we'll mix around and then get to get it cranking over a little easier because wintertime obviously it has a hard time starting by being warm like that it keeps the battery from going dead real quick because you know how things go dead in the winter when the battery is cold it just goes right down we went through the history like i was saying if you go into history go into alarm log you got a million and ten inspect batteries and air filters and all that crap because nobody's been doing the service but you can see on the 17th had an undervoltage at two o'clock area and that makes me think and since it's at 25 seconds it makes me think that that was probably when it was exercising like i said i changed the exercise time and date so i don't know what it is now but that was the only real thing i've seen in there that was uh of an actual failure otherwise it seems to be doing pretty good go into run log and it looks like it's been running pretty decent manual which i just did exercise auto utility loss see that was on the third it started and ran then lost it uh 1329 and stopped 1329 so i ran for what eight seconds 10 seconds so that was kind of a somebody that's testing it or something a lot of exercises and stuff like that there was a utility loss there on the 21st of last year january looks like it's been doing fairly decent we've already went through the edit menu this is one of the older controllers which was pretty easy to navigate and you know special codes any of that stuff which made it kind of nice now this radio signal thing here there used to be a button to push i think on this one to lock in i tried to change channel that didn't work it was nice one of the nicer ones because you can test with it but i i really don't i don't know these have been so problematic so we're gonna see if i can get that reset there like i said there used to be a push button on the backside of this black transmitter the newer ones have it built in there but you can see this one has a little box right there you know it's been about seven years or better since i've done a crapload of these so you tend to forget so if you're not going to do these every day don't waste your money or time trying to do warranty and all that stuff it's a waste especially with the way they got their school now being done every year and you're going to spend i think eight hundred dollars to go to their class which they're gonna do online and you're you're gonna have a hell of a time learning it if you've never done them before i highly don't recommend it it's there's too many people in the generac market now that install them nobody wants to service them so i'm going to use some silicone because i don't have any uh tune up kits with me went ahead and just silicone that shut so that the dirt doesn't come through the hole there and bypass the filter it'll be good enough till summertime and we can do the maintenance on it because the oil looks like it's fairly clean we went ahead and got the negative terminal taken off there this thing is looks like 540 at zero degrees cold cranking so this is a cheap one but it works go to standard battery accurate test cold cranking 540 hit enter testing uh suggested replace oh not good huh uh not good even though we got the voltage there your internal resistance is getting a lot higher your cold cranking tested in at 356 so if the battery is weak it's not going to spin over as quickly and it's less likely to fire off i told you that battery was looking a little shady now you know under the load this is where things get deceiving shows that you know it's cranking over the voltage didn't drop too horribly bad it's not doing so great let's go ahead see if we can get that verifier working i did not see any buttons let's look at this again yeah no button there but i think if i remember right i usually just unplugged it from this controller up front uh there it is right here on the front this one right here that's your plug for your verifier let's see if we can get that back in there you can kind of see i turned off the controller here on the side and searching for generators so let's see if this happens to get it said we've already pulled the power on the transmitter on the back of the generator and had it restart be nice to hurry up and find it here finally got it to link back together so we hooked up the ground to the battery i unplugged it waited a full 10 seconds like you usually would with anything else flip them both back on so this was powered down that was unplugged next thing you know it found it and everything's ready to go i'm going to change the channel though because they were on channel three i think and it was wacky change channel it was on three let's take it let's go to six why not sending things success okay good radio let's go to radio information see how it shows anything quality a hundred percent i would surely hope so since we're a foot and a half away let's go to date and time that's not it's linking very good is it let's see if we can do the test i ain't too impressed with that let's just go ahead and set it because i don't want it to reprogram it for giggles i went ahead and turned the stupid thing off back on again and it didn't find it i have a feeling this thing's going bad we'll go ahead and let it do it one more time but i'll have a whole lot of faith in this that's the reason why a lot of times they don't even sell these anymore you've got lights out here you want through a window and see what's going on this is just a luxury okay link fault again as you can see here the date got screwed up it's not the year 2000 things wouldn't be destroyed yet let's go ahead and undo this again uh this is just do not sell these these things are garbage okay let's go ahead and turn that back on let's go ahead and plug this thing back in again these things have been more of a headache in my hind end and anything else okay it found it so all you gotta do homeowner that's probably watching this let's come out here and unplug that thing and turn that thing off and it finds it real convenient and let me guess batteries nope they kind of still hanging in there let's see if we can get this clock reprogrammed and test this thing remotely as you can tell i'm not i'm not into this anymore uh i just reset the clock again it still didn't take it's probably defective start and transfer let's hit enter you gotta hit both buttons up and down at the same time too far as checking out the what's going on with it let's go to the graph you can zoom in there with your eyeball you can kind of see that it's running probably 30-cent RPM this is just a really crappy display don't show you a squat so you can go to voltage once again you know it'd be nice they would show you the true voltage but they're showing you a graph it's really hard to read so have a nice digital readout they just don't have that they've came out i think they've came out with better ones since then it's just not much to brag about so let's go ahead and stop generator that's a case and everything's running like it should only thing i see is we need to replace that battery which i don't have one last line wasn't done correctly you're not supposed to have curvature curving chairs like that in it the bench gas line so it goes over to lp regulator it's on its own regulator so it can handle that it's gonna be close all right seven three four so it ran like it's supposed to that's a good thing now these batteries are still going let's go ahead and see if we can get this clock set right so conclusion i've came to here is the clock if you try to set it with this it screws that one up if you set it correctly with that one inside the generator it seems to be fine but it doesn't correct it on here no matter what i do here it's losing it it's not keeping it correct as soon as this loses power it seems like it loses connection i'm going to tell her it's pretty much about shot and she needs a new battery everything transferred over voltages and stuff are fine we're not going deep deep into it one of my recommends would come back and do the oil change and all that on it and replace the battery at the same time and then we can get her service then but for right now it's running it's starting the battery is good enough but not where it should be at it's kind of like bold tires they'll get you to the store but you know eventually they're going to blow and you're going to wreck it's kind of the same thing here i made that start and run all right so she'll just look at the geothermal also so we're checking the outgoing water temperature not 36.1 and our incoming here is only 36.3 oh it's 36.1 and 36.3 so we have zero drop across this thing what you're doing is this is your technically your condenser so it's going to go in one temperature is going to come out colder because you're tracking the heat out of the water right so that's what we've got going on while you fill your your liquid line it's not hot you fill your suction line which is your hot gas line it's not hot we know that it's had an issue of leaking you know it's probably the evaporator up there this is a geothermal split system basically a water source heat pump and they weren't able to find the leak the last time but this is the end coil and it is a 16 so i don't know if it's gone to aluminum there or not but that filter dryer right here is really cold uh feels the same on both sides so i don't think it's restriction on the dryer it's just it's uh low on charge let's go ahead and grab the gauges and check the pressures real quick but chances are we're going to need to add some to it and then look for a leak okay good we're running the same suction pressure as we are disparate discharge pressure that's very unusual and makes me wonder do we have a reversing valve issue so let's jump out r to o and see if this thing will reverse into cooling mode and change its position going to r hopefully not shorting it out on something uh-oh that's nice it's shut down that's what i love about thermostats it's not changing on any of the settings there either it switched over to the gas furnace i heard a click it should have changed the reversing valve wouldn't surprise me if that's possibly taken a dump also wouldn't surprise me if that uh capacitor is going bad also it's probably original one that's a 2012 so you know we're 10 years old let's um see what we can find here go back upstairs put it on heat again just kicked on and this is concerning our head pressure and stuff is kind of more normal it was not running like that earlier i did not check my terminals but you would figure it should have been yeah now it's warm that ain't good not good at all and we're hot enough that i don't want to hold on to that did we have a problem with the reversing valve who knows see if we can make this thing switch back and forth something's wacko let's watch this for a minute see if the pressures go sky high maybe maybe it's over charged or something we did check our temperatures now like i said our incoming is 36 out going now and before not too extreme out of the way there i did just verify we have power on y1 and y2 so it is running at second stage things are looking pretty normal there only a four degree drop there though it seems like it might be a little bit off i have to look and see if we can find the charts here somewhere let's try this again see if the thermostat kicks it out i'm not really sure what it's going to do it might feed it it might just unhook let's do that that way it doesn't do anything stupid let's unhook the oh terminal and that way it doesn't back feed to the thermostat so let's unhook that and we'll hook that then straight to y to get the oh terminal up there let's go to cooling mode now see if by chance it might have been in cooling mode when it was acting stupid now it's nice and cold like it was earlier it should not have been going into any type of defrost i don't know why they have w hooked up it's not necessary on a geothermal so we're going to unhook that we don't run defrost because there's no defrost but even so the pressures are kind of coming close together look at your rejection there into the water so it doesn't doesn't seem like it was just running in cooling mode let's undo that now going back the other direction and they're starting to build head back up again this is going to be one of those little fluky things um even if a txv was acting up which i've had a lot of txv's fail this is 2013-2012 area i believe that was when we had our little run in with copeland compressors having anti rust property thing added to the refrigerant which screwed up all the txv's and uh don't know what year that was exactly originally happened but somewhere in this ballpark liquid is warm hot gas is hotter than i really probably care to leave on there since it runs a little longer so when in doubt check your sub cooling in super heat and we are running about 4.9 we're so we're a little low super heat's kind of hanging in there where it should probably be at so let's zero this out let's take it up to maybe about an eight to ten degrees sub cooling not uh don't have the charts in front of me that's why it's always a bad idea to put charts and books for these things in your little rooms where you don't lose a map because that's not where the service guy needs a map so let's go ahead and add a little something to this and see if we can get that a little more in line with what you're used to which will make a pretty good difference there's your water out it's at 29.3 ish for ounces let's see where that puts us at nothing major it's already making a difference on our heat rejection that's coming down which is a good thing we're not going full bore here you know doing the full explanation how these things work i have other videos that you can check out where i've kind of done that it's kind of more of just follow along and see what i'm doing for the day well i only had six ounces for 10 degrees sub cooling 10 degrees super heat pretty much in line our heat rejection there we're at 29 degrees i think he said we have 30 something coming in let's recheck that real quick about 36 so we got a six degree drop i think that's right in the chart area going out of memory here see what kind of temperature rise we got across the coil got a bypass humidifier here so let's shut that so we don't get a lot of false readings actually that will do actually take a return air reading right in here wouldn't hurt nothing take a quick reading in here then we'll take a reading out of the discharge out of the side of the humidifier there okay to see where we're at try to do it up here so it's a little more accurate to the air temperature that's coming from up above which i'm going to say is around around 70 let's see what our discharge here is so it's doing fairly decent probably about 24 to 26 area water temperature coming in at about 30 just like a regular air pool or air air source heat pump where you know 30 degree weather you're doing pretty good usually that's gone 23 24 degrees that's assuming that it's only 70 i'd really like to know what caused the problem that we just had a minute ago that's kind of concerning this thermostat's gonna be kicking out here for a moment after so many minutes it tends to upstage to the gas furnace pushing back over to cooling mode to see the reversing valves acting up i thought maybe it was sticking on a partial position which would make sense because the pressures were pretty much equal i'm gonna go ahead and check that capacitor too so it reversed pressures are dropping and it's unreversed this thing back with it was we don't forget the capacitor was weak came in at about 37 it's rated for 40 so i've got a new one on there i'm trying to think of any good reason what would have happened what would have caused what happened and i mean it just seems like the reverse valve was probably in the middle position the compressor was what appeared like it was pumping seemed like it was pumping maybe it wasn't pumping maybe that was the problem but it sounded like it was humming along i'll play back the video to see but that don't make no sense haven't had to replace any reversing valves on this model yet which is surprising but i don't know i told the lady she needs just to keep an eye on if she starts getting a lot of cold air then something's going on when i have to come back and hopefully it'll malfunction to the point where we can catch it doing whatever it's doing