 All right, so we've got a steam boiler here This is one I've had to do quite a bit of work on it just cleaned all the side glasses up a few weeks ago Tested and cleaned all the safeties and Basically, it's not one to run Had problems in the past with my In switch down here on the blower section basically not closing and that would keep it from getting its cough to run Right now it says it's calling for standby. That is my controller because you have to Buy one because they don't come with the controller Anyhow, we've got a check mark controller here and it shows that it's calling because you can see the little flame Right there. That is saying it's calling for heat So something's shutting it down which most likely is going to be one of the safety switches up here whether it be the floats or the pressure switches, so I Don't want to jiggle nothing. I want to see if I can catch it So I went through there and checked all the switches and that don't have anything on any of the terminals and nothing in between it So it's not Not anything going on there. So now we're gonna work our way over to the floats The one right here is our high voltage going to our pump that right there's high voltage going to the control So it's no issues there with that. It's closed. It's only one left here This one take a look at This really is about the only things that shut this thing down other than that and switch down there on bottom which I suppose it could have malfunctioned Oh, you gotta be kidding now. I just moved that and then it starts to work. So I can't help but wonder That bump the control Yeah, so it's going into its purge right now By volts which is good There's the end contacts and a little water cut out Everything on it look pretty good Tight Unfortunately, I didn't get to it in time to check it before it kicked on so that kind of stinks So we're kind of watching for a little bit see if we can get it to act up again But it may take a couple days for it to do it so Now that that's made we now have 120 volts coming in and out of each one of those switches Kind of we'll see Wires come in One of them comes straight up to here Leaps back out and goes to the other ones and since I had nothing between any of these or over here This was not getting power. So before these get power I'm pretty sure it goes down Here down below that's the case maybe there's that all gone and switch again We'll need to Follow that see where it goes. I bet you anything it might be. Yeah, see here's the Those there. All right, so the steam boiler went down again It started working on me When I was here last time so See what's going on if you notice there's no call for heat there Water level is right there. They said it didn't come on, but this thing still feels warm It's not like blazing hot coming over here looking at the burner there Shows it's got a call for it. It's not happening. And what I suspected the last time was the Switch down here on bottom might have been sticking and not happening. So that was why I ordered a new one We're looking at it. It's crushed down in there like it should be So the question is let's see if we can open this up without jarring it Because I think that's what happened the last time And check voltages real carefully I'm gonna go ahead and check voltages here on these terminals None of that was very well labeled originally So let's see if we can catch it. This is just one of them things where you know, it's It's a major pain, but when things don't want to act up the whole time you're there All right, 24 and 25 is my damper switch and it shows to be dead one and two It's my thermostyle. Let me check those real quick. All right, so the two purple wires three and four Have a weird voltage on them. They are let's just go top there. They are right in there at 77 78 volts, so it's not completely open. It's not completely closed So we've got an issue there But we're not sure which one it is because these are all in basically a series loop one to the next to the next to the next Last time I bumped that and that was when it started working like it was okay And unfortunately they didn't just go up back checkpoint up back checkpoint up back checkpoint I went through and checked all those last time. So let's see if we can Just double verify it a little bit more because if those ain't closed She won't won't run Because that basically lets the machine send power over here to the burner mechanism, which we can check there See what we got on that if there's gonna call for it, which it's not Okay, so if we check from our neutral, which is these white wires here Should have grabbed the GoPro and go to three Three is 121 go to four, which is the return path. We got 2.9 So now we've got a like I said dig into these controls. I have a feeling it's this one right here Let's see if we can gently take this cover off without jarring it. All right, sure enough. We have 78 volts on that See if I can get my fingers on there. I Had a funny feeling that might be it. I think we've seen that yesterday And all of a sudden it started working Yeah, it's near impossible to do with with two individuals. Yep. See there started working Yeah, so I don't think it's a float sticking Basically we got that going on. All right, so I didn't trust those connectors. I'm gonna go with the round ones I don't usually like these Because this thing's kind of been so critical and acting stupid. I'm gonna go ahead and just chop them both off Put them both on with the o-style Brand new ones on there So what we're gonna do is we're gonna take that connector put it on there Put her straight in that should give us a nice tight connection. We're gonna tighten it up pretty good I have a feeling that you know, we might get away with this may need to replace the switch I don't know and chances are they probably don't have a switch locally here in town anyway So I'm just gonna do with what I got to go with right now. And so we're gonna get that on there Try it and see what happens. I should have went with my gut yesterday But didn't want to just replace it if that wasn't what was wrong There we go So go ahead and get this in there and that's gonna My feeling is it's going to be a better connection with these than the others This is a hundred and twenty volts when it's powered So we will just now goes up with our little cheater there you guys that's right here something pretty handy it Straight head screws for the dirt bag that designed the straight head screw it Works great for holding them in place don't worry about magnets, you know, I like magnets, but It just makes it so much simpler to get this screw started. It's not good for torquing it But it's good enough to get it in there. All right, so we've got that in there. They are separated It's gonna leave that off for now. Let's go ahead and turn it back on So it should be good there powers on I'd like to have for something like this one to act stupid I'd love to have more of those little lights So let's go over here and turn this an equation on and It should be the only thing we need to turn on So it's calling right now It's gonna go through Still a warm up now we could Which is never a bad idea gonna blow this turd down a little bit. Well, we can make sure That the safety does work I'm gonna do this one over here This one will trip it out pretty quick, but it just flies right by it This should be getting done once a day problem is it doesn't So why we got that there. Let's go ahead and kill that power again. Let's go ahead and check that switch Got all that's all marked. Let's go ahead and take that switch apart take a look in there and all that is Kind of see in there's switch mechanisms right there kind of Kind of can see So you can see there's a little roller That's the float the float goes up and down pretty easy. That's the ball Float in there. So we know that's not getting stuck on nothing. That's a nice little check you could do So, you know, it's not getting stuck and see it wiggling And then that rocks that baby Back and forth So yeah, it's the top switches So in reality depending on what it is you can probably switch it to the other ones, but Problem is this does have high voltage through it. So there's probably some arcing going on inside there So now we caught it I'm gonna go ahead and put it back together So just refilled The side glass is back to it. It's doing its one minute purge Then it'll kick back on That's the pilot safety there. It's using ultraviolet light from the safety control So it just shut off Because the water came down kind of low This thing's kicking in when it needs to but I mean it just isn't fast enough to keep up Like I said, it's it's running This thing's kind of a dungeon down here She's running comes up through the check valve comes up over all the way across and Down into the back side of the boiler here and then fills into there You can see where I Took this one apart had to build a gasket for it, which is this Kind of curious how that turned out kind of Hadn't really used it before it's a lock tight gasket maker Kind of still feels a little sticky, but it's not leaking, which is nice Inside that steam trap there basically is a little ball. I have a video of it. I'll show it right now All right, so just in case anybody wanted to know what's inside of a steam trap Here's a steam trap on a steam boiler, obviously So I wasn't able to get the plugs open very easily with the way this thing's mounted last year I took it apart at the union here and flushed it through but this time I decided to go through this cover here basically you've got a total of six bolts and You've got a pocket right here. This is completely sealed and The water comes in from this top line here on this Boiler goes through. There's got like a blowdown valve. So to speak here comes across Goes in the top and as it accumulates it comes up and it rises up and then it will lift this float Higher when the float lifts up higher it opens up The seal right there and blows the water on through this bottom compartment. So as you can see That's the seal for it. So a stainless steel thing now. There's something inside of this ball It's feels like lead or something like that. That's stainless steel ball So anyhow that right there opens that compartment, which then lets the water The steam will push the water on down through the bottom there Which is where it lines up to that right there Then this water will be shoved through the check valve up Across and then back to the reserve water tank over here the reserve water tank has a pump on it that pump is controlled by a Float over here The float and this particular one has mercury inside of it It gets too low one set of mercury drops which sends high voltage over to the pump over there And then it'll start pumping that water back The water comes Out of that pump there up Over a round And down into The rear of the boiler so we ordered a new switch for it and we're gonna go ahead and replace the inside Float sensor while we're at it, but the problem was mainly the electrical switch mechanism What I'm doing right now is just draining it down so that I can go ahead and get this out without getting scalded Look at that So I got that mark top not that it makes much of a difference because it's just a teeter-tot up and down thing All right, so I end up put some tape over here I tried using another Romex connector nut over here I made it too thick couldn't grip onto that side there because that was getting really close to the the connection there so Went ahead just put some tape there as a space or I didn't have a big washer Tighten that up wrap the switch put it together made sure it's adjusted correctly Everything seems to be good there. You can see the water is finally getting up there where it needs to be at Just came on She's gonna go through a one-minute purge 10 second pilot safety Then it'll should fire off down there down there Trollers out in the truck you put on there and wash doesn't tell you a whole heck of a lot ever since I cleaned that connection up Stopped and finally got back to get it put together. That's all that was really wrong with it See about 10 minutes on here with an isolation relay that keeps the high stage coming on for at least 10 minutes That will shut the high stage down once the pressure builds up Best we came with what we got to work with here. It's not the most elaborate system in the world Especially when you've got an oversized boiler over there that usually gets flooded out because they don't really need it to run and As you can see this building is really really old Then to come in here and try to change things out now