 This video is brought to you in part by TrueTech Tools. Quality tools, essential support. All right guys, so I'm on call today. I'm on my first one of three. We've got a reach-in dairy case that is too warm. The outside compressor is not running. So let's go take a look and see what we got going on. So this is some of the equipment. Let this things out here. It's an older grocery store. So let's see whether we got airflow, stuff like that. As you can see, we're in a small town here. It's not every day you see people's laundry outside. So let's go over here and take a look at this equipment here. This is very old, not in a great shape. This is it. See what we got to work with here. Got our silicone case. And the compressor is not hot. First thing I usually do is I feel it to see if it's hot. If it is, it's been running or trying to run. Maybe it's been shutting off on thermal overload. Receiver feels a little warm, but the compressor surely would be warm. Next thing I usually do is I come over and I check the condenser coil. Although it's bent to heck and back and it's probably 30 years old, you can actually see through it. So I'm going to say that we got a safety device keeping it open or contactor defective or something of the sorts. Let's see if there's any poison ivy in this mess. I'm not really good at eyeballing that crap. Okay, I see a spider there. I can hear the defrost clock running. So the contactor is not pulled in. So let's see if we've got power to that contactor. I have a bad feeling about some of those things there because that right there, I thought it was a jagged leaf like that right there. Cardboard is your friend. So we got that there. Let's grab the old meter and see what we got going on here. We obviously have some power to it because the clock sounds like it's running. 211, 211, 212 going to our coil. We have 211 volts to that coil right there. This is going to be an easy one. Switch mechanism works, but like I said, we've got 211 right there. It tells me the coils junk for some reason. Of course, we ain't going to disconnects out here. I don't think to kill power. I'm going to need to get a new contactor on there. Hopefully that's all that's wrong with it. You can see through the coil there and bits and pieces. It kind of can. It's just a wreck, a Romex wire and everything else. It's just a beauty. She is a real beauty clerk. We're going to get this stuff running. I got literally three calls and three different counties to run. So I'm going to see if we can find the power for this. I've got a tracer. I could trace it off of that, but let's just see if we can find it. Dairy cooler here on eight. I don't think that's, that's obviously ain't a single breaker. That's not probably it. Walking freezer produce, walking cooler outside. That didn't really be nice to know which one's which. This looks like dairy. And it's got three fuses. Must jump it from there to the back one. Let's see if that get it. That kind of sucks. Somebody pushes the door shut. Closes and shocks the crap out of you. That's awesome. Ain't no lockout tag out for that thing. Pierce, we got a storm brewing. So we got us a contactor here. Let's get this puppy in there. Don't hear the clock running. Power, which it does not appear. Let's go to ground. Hopefully it's actually grounded. So if we work fast before somebody bumps the things into the plug, we should be able to get this done before you get shocked. Otherwise you can pull all the fuses. Kind of do the one at a time thing here. You can go through with a marker and mark them. All right. So we give this a sniff and you can smell it. Yeah, you can smell the coils burnt. If we used to yank the bottom off of that, you can get a good eyeball on it. You'd probably see that it's burnt. That's what happened there. They had a power outage yesterday. Had storms coming through. We've got everything kind of tightened back up. I do not like the way some of that crap looks. It looks really shady right there. We got this cleaned up. Got, you know, you can actually find things. I hate cramps like that. We got all this restrips so that's nice and clean. Should be able to kick it on and make it run. Kind of got to line that up a little bit. There we go. All right. Look at that. This thing just shuts off and does ka-punk, defrost. Defrost just breaks it. That's what they're doing. Close circuit. It goes defrost. It opens, breaks power to four. Power is wire nutted up here to that right there on that brown wire. And that's what kills the contact or kicks off. So there's no pump down on this thing at all. Loss of charge is what I'm going to call it. We can find this out real quick. We'll put it into defrost and it should just go ka-punk. Yeah, it don't pump down at all. I have some fancy stuff right there. Yeah, that won't get you shocked or nothing. I got fan cycle here. Pressure's coming back really cold on that side right there. Amazing feet of it. I'm not going to do a full maintenance or any of that crap. We know the coil's clean. We've got a full sight glass. And the contactor pad, simple enough. Next one. All right. So we're heading to our next call now. This is a smoke alarm. Dr. Tector, I believe, just keeps going off. They turn it off and it obviously stops. So I don't know if Dr. Tector's pulse alarmed or what. Like I said, we have a storm come through. It caused power outages. And I think that's what may have caused this one too. Kind of like this last one. So that's what we're heading to now. All right. So we're here. Let's get up here and see what we can find out. Done a call on that one in the middle of winter. Should be. I believe that one there. Okay. So I'm trying to find it. They said it's the newer unit. None of these look that new. I thought it was that one over there, but that's definitely not it. I luckily wrote something on it as what it's for. It'd be nice if they were all running, just the one you wasn't running. You'd know as it. I'm not really sure where the kitchen. You would think it'd be out here because that's where all the exhaust hoods are at. I don't know why it's so hard not to just write down what the hell area that's taken care of. Could be this man's drosty here. The age of this one looks fairly newer. It's 19, but it's running. So I'm going to say it's probably not it. Fans running on this one. All these have the thermostats mounted in the return air dock. So if the smoke detector is going off, the fans not going to be running. These ones here I know are for a certain area of the building. Try not to tell you where I'm at, because you know this one here is kind of a more secured location. I'm going to say it's got to be that one right down there. Putting the air up against it. The thing's not running. Hopefully the smoke detectors are not down below because it is a pain in the butt to get into this building. This has got a start update of June of 17. It's my yellow marker to cut for shutdown. None of that's cut there. So that means they probably did a hardcore. Usually we go into the main wire and a thermostat. I don't think this is it either. If it is, it's wired in down below or something. Let's see if a fan runs if we jump it or if it's actual intercepted. Fan's running, belt sounds like it's loose. I'm going to have to get a hold of them to find out which one's what. This is a little more pain in the butt than what it would appear. Yeah, that's a little loose. Probably not aligned real wonderfully either. Oh yeah, it's nice and worn. It's actually fairly tight. Problem is you got the pulley all jacked. Pretty darn tight. I mean it's got a little deflection there, not much. Under normal circumstances that belt would do it's too just fine. I guess that maybe it is a little loose. Let's tighten it just a touch. That's a lot better. See if we get a squawk. That's better. Doesn't squeak as bad. Yeah, it's been tightened down so tight that the bushing there is wearing out. That's why it's nice. I don't think this is also it because not only because the fan's running, but we've got water in there so that means it's been running. Hasn't rained. Well, it has rained recently but not enough to fill that up. Let's go look for another one that may have no water in the drain. Kind of say trap. It just kicked on. So we know it's not it. We know this one's not it because it's shaking and rumbling and has water in its trap. Let's go back up here to the top. Waste of time. I should have asked them what area but it's, I don't think half of them would know. That one here's got water dripping out of it so it's running. I don't know. I don't even, I think it's probably just a flipping false alarm on the part of the alarm system company because it's telling them they're having a smoke alarm and all this crap is running. Not as warm as that other one. It looks like a 22 also which means belts could be getting loose. Okay we're looking at this heap of love here. Belts are really rusty. Obviously it's not doing nothing. So that connects to this what looks like an exhaust system for probably a kitchen. All right called alarm dispatch. Asked them what it was. They got a trouble code. Got forwarded to their tech guy that's on call for the alarm panel company. He said a trouble code is different than an alarm code and they would check it out on Monday and just let it go. I offered to go look it up see if I can find where it was at. They didn't have any way to look it up so on to the next call. All right so we're heading to the next one which is a freezer. Two-door freezer is not working. They usually have problems with a lot of their equipment. Let's go take a look see what we got there. All right so I guess a true two-door freezer. This thing's been through World War three and back again. I've replaced several things on it over the years and it's just beyond ready to die but it won't die completely or they just keep resurrecting it. At least they unplugged it. Yeah I got it unplugged there. Let's take a look at this evaporator see if it's full of crud or not. It's right here on the grill line so you got all that nasty crap from the fryer's plugging up the filter which puts the air flow off some of the tears. Coil looks like impacted but I'm sure it can get a little bit of air through there. Two degrees it's really nice. Like I said this thing has been through hailing back. Something about I think the fans weren't running or something. I got to get a better description. You can see right there that we got a crap load of water so the thing was probably froze up so using your spidey sensors there you can tell that coil probably wasn't wasn't clean and clear and definitely something going on. So it doesn't do it right away, it doesn't after a while. Consider here something, a fan. Those fans seem to be running to me. Things got issues. I think this has got a leak too. I've put on this one several I don't know at least a year or more ago. Went out of leak tore everything off of it couldn't find anything leaking. Added a high side of the side tap on it so we can kind of see what's going on. Might be the same thing might just be low on charge again but honestly it feels like it's getting cold. I threw a gauge on it just to see what the suction pressure's at. It's the warmth that a fan should not be running in it. So here's the time to let things work in. Yep it's not kicking on that's good. This means the time delay is problem working. Let it run for a minute I'll go grab the gauges. It's going to be potentially a lower suction because those fans aren't running on the evaporator section. Both fans here and another little restricted looking they're running. I'm just going to let it run for a minute. Starting to freeze up you can see that as it gets colder and colder which is good so let's watch it and see what happens. They said they thought they heard the noise from down below. I think it's probably up above as soon as those fans kick in we'll see. We're still waiting for the fans to come on but I did go ahead and mark them. We'll see if it changes position make sure this clock is working. Maverick tear that cage off of this condenser so it gets better airflow. At least it doesn't have this restrictive rabbit cage looking keeled around it so it'll actually get some airflow through it but I'm not seeing what they're describing as something that would have been hit the fan blades as yet so hopefully it'll peak up here in a minute. I think it's already starting to move off of there. Track already on that so I just thought of this though let's look at that. It's hitting something so that fan blade here is hitting on something that one there's free so we've got that one's free the left one there's hitting on something for some reason let's tear it apart so this wire nut right here goes down in here like that just barely hitting that fan blade let's push it back over and down in there at some point in time either things have frozen lifted it up moved it around I mean it's not like popping back out over here very easily. Fan's not hitting nothing now and it's plenty of clearance and you see all the frosting stuff I think it's pretty good there it's got a wire tie around it to the other one I wouldn't be surprised it could have been taken apart for leak search for the 15th time or something who knows let's see how it does now it's finally running air through the coil there kind of over a button there a lot of frost on the back but like I said this is a total warm pull down hot pull down let's see how she does now. Unfortunately we'll have to watch this for a little while to see if it pulls down they said originally it started getting warmer and then eventually they started hearing the hit of the noise or the noise hit yeah eventually heard the fan blades hitting that wire nut which they didn't know but that's what it was at the time. There's 35 psi 20 came in at negative 15 everything down side of these it's not having my pt chart built into them but I'll let this run for a little bit and see if you can get down to temperature near it. There's a unit that I'm yet to put out the video but my little trap I made which theoretically probably wasn't quite deep as what you'd normally figure is working like it should because for years had been rusting out the bottom of that we're just kind of waiting for that thing to drop in temp so I thought I'd come over here and check this thing over I don't want to get called right back or something stupid again. The defrost clock is tracking time if you look at it before it was at the six mark there bottom of the clock we've got the kubernetes here dropping to 38 degrees a little bit faster more accurate than the generic dial up there this has got a a duct sensor like that right there with a cater clip type thing holding the place this is one of the other ones I really enjoy it's a sh66a super accurate usually it's within 0.3 degree of accuracy it's even that more accurate than what the uh luke is not as pretty I guess and bigger modified this one put some magnets on the back of it riveted them on works out great for that got the different probes for different things I have a feeling that's about all there was to it got that air filter replaced there coil is a little dirty but it's not like it's really blocking it completely I'm not going to do this on a sunday we're going to do more on it later but just like I said this thing's been chucking along and keeps getting kicked along down the road so I'll wait for this drop maybe down to 20 area and then wrap it up we are at 10 degrees and been doing pretty good so far I'm going to say we're fine I think the fan blade was hitting the wire nut and either it stopped the fan blade from turning which then reduced the capacity and just the noise in itself made them want to shut it off because they thought something was majorly wrong which obviously would have been when it shorted out eventually so we got a new filter on there that's going to help them out quite a bit to get better airflow through there we got the defrost clock is working and the refrigerator pressure seems to be fine from what I'm seeing haven't looked recently but it does appear to be at 25 areas that's about negative 15 negative 10 areas so I would say we're probably fine um yeah we're just going to wrap this thing up hopefully this is the last call of the day all thanks for going with me on these three calls so hopefully you guys enjoyed them they were easy but still they took a chunk out of my sunday which is where it goes so you guys enjoyed the video and you want more like it make sure you subscribe check me out on instagram where I post the most things when I'm not posting videos facebook is pretty much dead don't really give a about it so till next time everybody we'll catch you on the next one later