 all right we got us a little freezer here and short cycling okay i got the old cover off let's see what she does looks a little low so we need to find a leak here probably had a few operations as you can tell it's a 2017 compressor got some craftiness going on here so let's cut her down it's a little windy out here may take a look at it with the ultrasonic all right the first thing i did was went ahead and scan it the ultrasonic and i really didn't pick anything up and then we had scanned it with electronic still didn't really pick anything up um searched the whole line set over here didn't find anything on the indoor coil scanned inside the covers so at that point you got to put your gauges on see what you're even working with heck it could be completely flat for all you know so right now looking at it sections low and heads up you know it could be something going on with the solenoids so we're gonna kick it on here and see how she reacts it's coming right back up so you gotta watch for this too because what'll happen when you're short cycling like this it'll pump the oil right out of the compressor so the giggles i'm gonna go ahead and valve this thing off and see if she'll pump down and hold there just out of curiosity's sake just curiosity in the way you're supposed to pump it down it's off the suction side i just had this funny feeling it might think it's completely low and it could be something else but that could be wrong so she's pretty well holding there so it is going through the solenoid downstairs so i was kind of curious of so as soon as we open it up what's she gonna do instantly heard it release there she's coming up which are kicking with a little or what i'd normally bring on all right even scanned it with the h10 there i'm still not fine in a leak i went ahead and equalized my pressures out so i've got 80 pounds on each side there and it should be more than enough to get me something i've scanned that condenser i've scanned the line set just i'm not fine in anything but when i got looking at my defrost clock here times off which who knows if somebody said it correctly ever anytime lately but just kind of feeling it it feels a little like stuck i didn't push hard because i want to try to find out if that's the case it looks like i might be losing a fan there too on that left side and i'll see i equalize that thing and look how she's building up very very odd i wonder if i didn't uh somehow take it out of a defrost so that's why i didn't really want to go hong dung ho here still a little marked there let this thing run me and out nothing it's running sight glass it's full we had something bumping down all right she's tracking i mean i didn't try very hard to move it but maybe i broke it loose i don't know it's getting ready to go into defrost which is the odd thing here mainly just running the contact right here the fans push her into the defrost heaters came on see if she pumps down like it's supposed to and stays off yeah this is really really odd pound head at the 215 they don't see that 15 on the headmaster there but sometimes they're not not a humongous surprise not real care i don't really care for the on pressure it's a little out of whack i'm gonna let her run for a little bit see it starts acting up again more i got thinking about it since we had an empty sight glass the only thing it would have intercepted it would have been our filter dryer which was just recently changed pretty well damn well near the same so all reality should be able to clamp onto there clamp onto here and any difference you got should tell us whether or not this thing is plugged up all right look at that it's been running for a while and we got a 2.8 make sure it's not some false alarm here nice and tight nice and tight i'm gonna go with driers got something going on in it i'm gonna change it i mean look at our you know it's just probably because it was liquidy because i mean we are it is kind of cooler out today it's like glass is still there i'm gonna pump this thing down change that dryer it's about all i can come up with right now because when i played back the video that sight glass was empty and the only thing that would keep it from being full to be a plug dryer or maybe something's inside this receiver and that uh basically it's got something floating around getting in a tip tube plugging it but i've never heard of something like that so if you guys have leave something in the description down below but at this point i can't be here all day just hoping for the best so dryers are made to get crap out of the system all right we're gonna go ahead and replace this just basically salvaging the nut off this got our poe oil ready to go to put on our threads i put that there we go i keep an old zoom spout for my poe oil for putting on the threads we're just going to redo it and we're going to put a flare dryer in there it's going to make it a little easier to change next time especially if we happen to have something floating around in there that way uh we'll be able to change it kind of quickly basically what i'm using here is a it's called master cool it's an orbital flare tool works really good and it's pretty quick and fast otherwise i got my yellow jacket that i had forever but it's a traditional one so we're going to salvage this nut here and bend us a loop there with that right there we got it in there it's all mounted back in right everything's square and looks decent and uh so we're getting ready to bust or loose here gotta finish uh evacuating that little section there and then we should be good to go everything still looks the same just sprayed it for leaks everything's leak free no bubbles i'm confused on this one unless we got something going on in txv but i still don't explain why that was flashing there and then was pretty well empty hard to fix something if it's not going to act up while i'm here basically i just cooled down my condenser and it wasn't until i hit about 175 did i finally start feeling hot gas come through my suction started to drop my head pressure's still dropping down our super heat was really high and look at that she just shut off so it really appears we got something going on with the uh headmaster control not working properly like it should i mean it opened but it didn't seem to do its job we'll pump it down and feel my receiver look at that sure look at that head pressure all right so what we ended up finding out was going on here is our headmaster control was acting up on us so i added some water to the condenser slowly slowly added more and more water until i finally got my head pressure to drop the head pressure uh basically dropped down to about 140 pounds 150 pounds and this is a 215 pound headmaster valve uh ended up finally starting to get warm so it was a randomly acting it's basically sticking and um like i said we had a fan motor there on the left that's going out so we're going to order that we're going to order a new headmaster i went ahead and added a little extra refrigerant to kind of help hopefully maintain it so we can get back with that valve and then get her changed out we'll just recover and change it but that's what's going on this one kind of threw me for a loop because i've never really had them act up to the point where they work don't work work don't work so uh usually every time i've had them they've either not worked and that was the end of it so that's what's going on with this one this one here threw me for a little bit of a loop so gotta make sure it pumps down here that we don't have too much refrigerant in it and then we'll be able to shut her down