 So today is Christmas Eve and we are heading to our first call. It's a walk-in cooler that's got ice on the floor, I guess, so let's go take a look at this little cooler. It's probably, I'm assuming, a drain line issue, maybe the heater in the drain line is bad or something. So let's go take a look and see what's going on with that. Alright, there's our culprit, it's negative eight and yes it's locked. So let's go take a peek around the back side. I think this one drains down down the back side here. I've had to replace one of the controls in this thing once already, so I probably need to get up on the roof and take a look at it. Alright so you can see what's happened is it's dripping down, obviously the drain pan is not keeping me frosted. If you look up in here, the coil for the evaporator is clean. If you look up in here, let me zoom in. You can see there's an ice ball right there on the end of the coil. I would say in that vicinity there you can see a heater right there. So let's go up on the roof, it'll be easier to see. I think it's going to be heater related. Okay, so there's what the little drain is. I don't see much ice there, but you do down here on the roof that could just be a pocket from holding the water. You can just pop this top. When I talk about fun, how would you like getting on that roof? I'll probably be doing that here in a minute. Basically, to get up there, you've got, put your ladder up against that right there, and then kind of climb across. The angle isn't real friendly, to say the least. Alright so we got the top off of there, and looking inside here you can see that it grew a big old freaking piece of ice. And I'm going to assume that that's probably just keeping the fan blade there from turning. Because that's not going to turn. So we're going to put this thing into a defrost and see what's working and what's not. You can see that the ice is accumulated over to the corner. So I'm going to guess that probably it's not draining out. And you can see there's a little drain heater right there. My guess would be that it's freezing up and then backing up, and then it just grows and grows and grows until you get what you got. Gonna have to pop this other cover to see if we can get in there and put this thing into a defrost. Alright so we got the top off here. The clock looks like it's a gram for about a, what is that, 45 minutes every, and four times every 24 hours. Let's see if this thing rotates at all. We can probably track it. My fingers are going numb. The wind's blowing like hell, so it's colder than shit out here. Obviously it's not a failure of the clock because otherwise we'd have ice all over the coil. So the fan shuts off. Should be going down to the pump down. Had to replace that control. Forget wind. What are the dates at? Might be on the inside there. Just pumped down. So this is one of those Honeywell, this is one of those Copeland controls that basically, I replaced that back in just about a year or a couple of months ago. Alright we're gonna let this run for just a bit and may have to add a little heat to it until one of those motors have been replaced. I don't know if it's that one or that one, but one of them's been replaced already once. I would speculate. Probably the one with the wire nuts, but I think they both got wire nuts. Alright, let's let this thing, see if we can get it to melt some. Notice the drain line down there. It looks like it's open right there. So it may, the drain heater may be alright. They just had us accumulation there on the end. Hard to say. Give it a bit here. Might get the amp meter out. I'm gonna let this thing down a little bit. You can see water has started to come out of it already, which there's nothing keeping that from freezing there to there. Well that's definitely working. I can feel that playing its day. See if we can get down to, it's so freaking, so freaking cold out here. I can barely feel crap. I can definitely feel that. I'm pretty sure that's working. I think what we're gonna run into is we just need to melt this out and let it start all over again. Like I said, the coil's clean. And then once it stopped the fan, it just made crap worse. So I'm gonna get my pump sprayer. We could use that little hose over there, which would work, but chances are we'll flood this stupid thing out and then it'll drip down there and make a heck of a mess. That's some nice hot water here and we'll see if we can melt that stuff off. Maybe surprise how fast this thing will get it done. Okay, this is probably gonna make a little bit of a mess. We'll go ahead and see if we can get this ice melt away so it trails the way from the inside and actually goes down the drain. So we're gonna work on those drain purrs, make sure it's cleared out. That's such a slow little freaking hole. Which really, really sucks. You can see right there, the water's not going down. Nothing's coming out. So we might have been on the right track to begin with. The drain line's just freakin' plugged up. Yeah, we'll work on this for a little while. Not that you can hardly tell, but some of that crap right there busted loose and she's starting to drain out. So we're on the right track. I'd say right there's our biggest issue is the drain line was plugged up. That heater there, drain heater, feels to be working. I can feel heat on it. So we're on the right track here. We'll blow that out once we're done melting the rest of this crap out. I'm trying to knock some of this ice off the top here. The next thing you know, you're doing a nose dive into the concrete down below. Well, I know the defrost termination works because I got it warm and it kicked back on so I had to unhook that wire so that it would quit running. We're still melting away here. Time for refill number two. There we go. That just came out with a big old stream of water. Blew a couple of chunks out. We're going to trim this thing up a little bit, shorten it up. It's just no sense of it being out there. Chance for it to freeze more. Just going to continue getting this crap off here. Got to love it. It'd be great if we could run that over the side with a piece of PVC but I'm afraid that eventually we just clog off no matter what size pipe I put on it. Alright, so we've got everything melted out over here. You can see that it all drained down, no problems. I've got everything in the middle completely cleaned out. When that comes out now, you can see, look at that nice stream we've got going on here. I'm going to shoot some down there. It comes out nice and good. So right now I'm just kind of washing some of this crap out. You can see what all I've gotten so far. Not that winter is a time where you really need a perfectly clean condenser but no better time to do it than right now. I've got nice warm water up here and some left over my jug here so just kind of get the last bit of crud off. That way it's ready for next spring. Now I have had it screw me before where basically because now the coil is clean it does a lower head pressure and then end up having some issues so you've got to make sure your cycle lasts and everything's spool before you leave after you do cleaning like this otherwise it can bite you in the butt. You can kind of see that it's coming through. There you go, kind of. Not real great, but it is coming through. So it's just about done here. Just about done. What I did is I heated up that nozzle on my sprayer there and got that nice 90. It makes it a lot easier if you want to get into coils and stuff that are in tight spots. So she just kicked back on, time delays on. So go ahead and put this away. Let's see how everything starts to run here. Because it's winter time, what I'll do when I'm done using this in the winter is I will go ahead and drain it out, flip it upside down and that way it blows everything out of the hose. Because for us it gets below freezing here and that thing won't be ready to go on the next go around if you need it. So prep your tools for the next trip. Did get some cool stuff from solder weld too. I'm going to be doing a video on that. The aluminum and copper aluminum and a few other different types of solder. That stuff is pretty wicked. Alright, so we got a nice spool of sight glass there. That fan's running. These fans are running. Starting to freeze up again obviously because I ain't got any air flow going through. So I'm going to put the cover on it. We'll run it back into a defrost one last time. Hook that external back up. And we'll probably call this one a day for today. Alright, so we went ahead and cut that off at an angle and shortened that up. That still puts us outside of this track here. This track basically goes on the outside here and it's not going to go anywhere. I don't care if it gets up on that ledge and give it the old skadoodle. Like I said, got her back into defrost. Got to hook that wire up yet. Alright guys, we're going to go ahead and end the video there. I ended up finishing up with, was testing everything out, ran the coil back through a defrost again, made sure the coil was completely clean. Everything looked fine. Everything drained out fine. The heater appeared to be working fine on the drain on the inside of the cooler. Kind of wondering why they didn't run an external of the cooler. But it doesn't seem to make a difference because it was still working when I went back on New Year's Eve. I was called back out because they said it was just as bad as before. But when I got there, checked everything out and found the coil was completely clear that everything was still draining, went into a defrost like it was supposed to. That the problem lied in the fact that they didn't clean up the ice that was on the floor. They didn't request that I did that. Generally, everywhere I've ever worked at, the employees will clean that up because most places that hire you find it less expensive to have their hourly employees do it versus our hourly rate. So I ended up cleaning that up for them. Double checked everything. Everything was fine. It was working great. So the problem lies underneath the drain line being plugged. I ended up getting a black chunk that blew out when I hit it with that Galo gun. And the motors were still working good. I was a little concerned at first that that ECM motor might have been damaged by being locked rotor like it was for as long as it was. But it seemed to be still working fine and no issues. Everything was still energizing into defrost, out of defrost. I think I ended up taking the defrost down to 30 minutes instead of the 45. Generally, you could probably gotten away with three since that freezer was not in the kitchen and people aren't going to get into it very often. That's all going to be dependent on the humidity and environment that the freezer's in, what kind of climate you're in and things like that. So I went ahead and just left it at four. It never fails for me that if I change things too much, too drastically, that things end up acting up later. So sometimes you're just better off not to miss too much around. So if you guys enjoyed the video, if you would, you know what to do. I'd like to remind you too, tonight on Sunday, we've been trying to do it every Sunday at 8.30 Eastern Time. We've been going live, me and the wife. 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