 This video is brought to you in part by TrueTech Tools quality tools essential support All right guys don't laugh, but we got ourselves a little cooler here. It's not working very well I'm gonna show you what we got here So yes, this is the cooler door This is they store the ice cream and stuff in here Customer notice the outdoor fan not running so I come in and I check and I've got three fans running But when you look over here, you can see some ice Ice build up in here So let's go up here on the roof See what we got Could be multiple things. I have a feeling that maybe the drain's not draining This is just a little ice cream stand so Check us out It's all at the bottom which makes me think that maybe it's a drain line issue, but look how that distributor tube is Makes me think Got some issues of the TXV which I have had issues where I didn't want to feed quite right We've had issues in the past. I don't think I did that stupid things shakes and it's just it needs your place But it's not happening Let's tear into it see if we can find out what's going on. Of course it runs on R 22 so when it rains like it's doing right now, which is Not really the greatest time to work on refrigeration stuff because get it in the Lines you can get moisture in there But unfortunately You got to keep the food cold too, so you got to balance it So we got one fan here. It's not running And that one over there. He said was not wanting to run earlier. I believe this has got some hodgepodge Thermostat with a built-in defrost control in it. So there's no way to know if that's working correctly, unfortunately The alternative is to get another one of those or get one it has a display on it I think I replaced the TXV. I replaced the TXV back in July of 21 It held 47 ounces of 22 And it acts like it's TXV issue here But if we don't have fan cycling on like we're supposed to and we're not getting a proper defrost Who knows what's going on see if we can find out that motor's running super hot or what's going on I Don't know that fan looks like it's spinning pretty pretty violent Do we even have a fan switch or what's it gonna? Yeah, there's your fan cycle switch right there Which I'm not a big fan of these snap deals So we'll have to Bypass that and see if it makes it run. You got the blue one coming into here And the other blue one comes in and ties on to here Which looks onto one of the fan legs So we'd have to jump it there to see if we can make it run and I bet you Yeah, no disconnect up here is there nope No disconnect Well Yeah We got to melt that unfortunately. I don't I'm not sure what we're gonna be able to do today when you got a control here That you can't tell if it's working Don't really see any Ways to put it into a defrost It's a Dan Foss control. Don't know if the sensors are accurate This is where I prefer just to have a thermostat and a defrost clock Which might end up being what we put on this thing Not that defrost clock right in here Put a regular thermostat in there and call it a day Alright taking a closer look here's that drain line. They put a rubber rough on this thing That's not good. So you have any issues with things dripping through So it comes across and usually have a problem with these not draining very well That pan is pretty empty. We're gonna go ahead and try to melt this out here first This part here is gonna be tricky because some of it's gonna fall down They try to chisel off what I can chisel off without hitting the coil and then Give the owner a call back and see what he wants to do if he wants to just whip swap out the electronic control I don't carry that on the truck. It's you know, we usually carry, you know The basic stuff and order what we need Otherwise you stock at all and you carry it around your truck forever, and then you never use it We can cycle that I pulled the terminal off Let's see if that fan starts on its own He said it was wanting to not That seems pretty peppy to me like it's got some good torque I bet he was Me and that one there and that could be very easily the fan control. Let's go kill the breaker to this thing I don't want to blow the warm Murr air grants 48 outside here And they're making any more humid than what we already are All right, so it was not labeled And so we had to flip from breakers until we finally found it Had to label these other ones years past So we're gonna go ahead and get that one there labeled Walking cooler as you can see none of the panel This labeled any more things fall off actually there's some stuff there, but I Didn't even notice that this a whole lot easier to find All right, so we've got our Fresh battery in there and we've got the waterproof case on and the audio is going to be different because we're not using The nice little media mod because it's raining The things we go through to get you guys these things on camera So let's grab the little Pumps for air and that way we can Know that ice What sucks now I think about it is I just used my defrost clock that's 240 volts at the last job I just did a minute ago So although I've got an electronic one I can use it's good for both voltages that kind of One more thing I'd have to mess with I'm not a real big fan of electronic ones. We sold them a freezer right there That's been doing a lot better than what they had This thing here. It really Could use your place. It should start to accumulate and we should be able to see. Yeah, see it's coming out Yep, it's coming out So drain is not the issue. So we've got a refrigerant issue Tix V issue or they're not shut in the door, which Very probable that they're not shut in the door Could be that it's never shutting off the cooler either. I mean it's hard to say You guys have asked for a tour of the truck. It's pretty much a crap show Got Milwaukee cases up there refrigerant bottles here All this crap in the middle is a freaking disaster hang my gauges up there I use a toolbox. That's why I don't need 50 different little veto bags Some of the motors and stuff are up there some refrigeration controls are here capacitors up there filter dryers in here My recovery stuff's inside there and then torches and things like that And then extension cords. I mean defrost clocks up on top capacitors. It's a freaking wreck But I work out of it and when you do 55 different things like I do it's It's hardly worth trying to make it too overly organized That usually goes underneath there, but once again, it's a pain in the hind end to try to get to stuff And this band don't have near the room that it looks like it would have Other on the extra hose they actually had a plug in there we can tie into Directly blow the water heater and of course the water heater is only maybe 20 gallons if you're lucky You don't have to try to go sparingly on this water. We can always use the little misting thing which doesn't make a big mess, but Once again, it takes forever for it to To effectively start melting. So we unhook the hose there Kind of went through there and shizzled out some of the ice I don't think I caused that to fall where it's at, but I have a feeling possibly The sensor here may have came out of the coil Because this was happening before and I moved it down to the bottom down here so that hopefully it would sense the The ice and not turn off the defrost as quickly as what it had been doing So our problem might be right there with that With that sensor right there that thermistor sensor. I have a feeling it's just something stupid. It's either Sensor failed came out of the coil could have an issue there, but see what sucks is the guy didn't even notice the ice He noticed the fan not running which It turns freely It's a newer motor. I'm not sure What exactly is the issue? Uh, whoever did it didn't Tie any of that tape that together that can unplug itself So that's never a good thing I don't know it's it's the crappiest weather to try to get this done in because you don't have enough heat out here to Get the fan to even come on you can block it off But I mean just everything's working against you today. We're just about there Got about everything off. I'll tell you The little sprayer here the mister actually does a pretty good job If you can't really overflow the drains because They're so small like this one. It's barely a half inch pipe coming out This modulates it slow enough that I wasn't running a crap load of water down below all over the floor which There's a bunch down there, but that happened the way before I got here so It's poor insulation and stuff like that's the factor of that But once we get this done, we still got to get in the middle of the coil That's a big thing you can't forget once you've got ice in there It just builds It's kind of like a savings account, you know, you got some ice in the bank here And the next time it gets cold it just adds a little bit more ice and a little more ice And it just builds and builds and builds So you've got to get rid of all this ice It's the same thing with grocery stores or anything else These don't get very warm. It's an off-cycle defrost. It doesn't use a heater. So there's never a complete Heat source going through this to really melt this ice. So on an off-cycle it Basically very little Warm to melt it so That's a lot of the reason why it gets so compounded It gets so bad We got it all melted out. I've got that nicely stuck into the coil just above the water line We're still slowly draining out The air sensor right there is seems to be okay. I'm gonna check resistance on them right now What we're doing is blasting out the condenser Which we're getting Some dirt out the other side So we've got some nastiness in there that needs to be cleaned out We're getting on both sides here. Make sure I get this side first. I think it's still a little bit of warm water left Get her a little cleaner which is surprising Let's try to work it in the backside forward We got some in the bucket and a lot Some of this just was already here Moved everything that would have been potentially You know that had saran wrap on it moved it out of there because it could have Got down in there into it. That's not the prettiest thing in the world here, but It works. One of the best things for this is going to be the Milwaukee You got her all swept up no more splash Swept off the grates here too Let's go check the sensors You can see that all the water It's completely drained out of here. So Water is not an issue as far as being in there a little bit dirty I'm not worrying about that right yet that needs wiped out yet. You see all the Buildup it's kind of greasy. It's stuck in place. We'll see if I can wipe that out here in a minute, but focus factor needs to be On these sensors one sensors in the coil. The other one's there. They should be fairly close resistance Speculation says probably about 14,000 to 12,000 We're gonna see if they're close that at least tell us that Whether they're junk Or you know, they're completely out of the ballpark like this There we go 9,200 ish So 9,200 ish After this control. I mean before it's at water stuff got to be getting into it Let's see what this one ends up getting if it's in a mountain 9,000 ish area Up there we had something Now there's a good chance these may not be making good contact with the board at 9,260 So the sensors are close It's not scientific, but it's kind of logical. I bet he was noticing it kicking on and kicking off See here now power is off. So doing this with uninsulated pliers probably would not be a very Good idea at all. So that probably hurt it leave a mark. I suspect There we go Kind of pain in the heiny Let's twist these back together that way we can run a wire nut right back on them We're gonna jump them over to That terminal right there where this one comes from And uh, it should work Okay, let's go ahead and get this top on it I don't want any more warm air on that coil than what I need, you know, than what we already have All right, so it's a time. Nope looks like it's running Well that closest fan there is running immediately Which if he's maybe not describing the fan to me correctly not real key on wet hands Clamping onto that live. This is not the smartest thing I've ever done Because I mean I am freaking wet. I think I might do this with insulated pliers Uh, normally this wouldn't be that big of a deal, but Today seems like it is that other fan Is running The pressure switch is doing its job. Definitely not the smartest thing and this kind of I mean, I'm on a rubber roof I'm not touching nothing my shoes are insulated, but probably not the smartest thing and get that Nutted up I think he was probably seeing the one fan from down below, but What do you do? There's no sight glass on this to see Where you at all you can do is go off of sub cooling. Let's see what our suction is Obviously it's 40 some degrees out here. It's probably not gonna run the fan motor. That's not too uncommon Uh, to notice they're shutting the fan off furthest away from the header. Here's the header coming in This seems to be the same kind of rule no matter what whether it's big boy stuff or this tinker toy stuff Usually like to keep the fan running Closest to where the header is where the liquid and hot gas comes in and goes out so Uh far as what he was saying. I don't know what the deal is with that Let's grab suction gauge. See where we're at. You know, I like giving JB a shout out I like giving any of the guys that support me any of the tool manufacturers that support me a shout out On the videos that way you guys know what kind of tools that I think is pretty good That are supporting me because you know, if I think they're a good tool, I'm gonna tell you guys about it Here's these r290 r600 gauges. They're small Made for the small systems the gauges are nice big easy to read It's got the refrigerant scales already on there 32 290 and 600 This is 404 134 an r22. 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Nobody likes working for free So if that's a bad thing then uh, maybe I'm not the right guy to watch So Right here according to r22 Uh, which is our green one, I believe of our 22 We are running a 12 degree evaporator, which is a little cold colder than what I wanted. I had problems with this txv. I replaced it and it did not want to Work the way I want it to work, but that was Two years ago and it's still running. I like I said, I remember it acting a little stupid It's the oem txv It's very well insulated. It's strapped pretty heavily to the suction line there There is another temperature sensor there that one there looks like that might be what goes to the other fan So that could have been what was cutting out But it's not acting up on me now. So I don't know what to tell him other than hey figure place these sort of things, but This thing whole thing needs to replace Yeah fingerprints Our temperature control It's cranked all the way I'm going to recommend we replace that that's your defrost clocking your temperature control both I don't want to Convert it unless he wants to I'm going to actually throw both of them at him see which one he wants to do but obviously that'd be a little cheaper, but Fan was his main thing, but he had quite a bit of ice filled up in there. Hold on a second. Let's give him a call We're going to go ahead and put everything back together get the cap on it All right guys, it's going to wrap this one up Hope you enjoyed the video not a whole lot to it Basically had a frozen up coil and we have a thermostat that seems to be wrong We have a temperature control that does the defrost and does the Temperature control all together built into one. So we're just going to replace it The refrigerant circuit seems to be fairly closed from what I'm seeing the fan Which was the original issue for the guy calling Really doesn't seem like it's acting up at this point with this kind of weather I could see why it wouldn't have been running much and We're just going to go ahead and get those things going and get that replaced and that's about it When I come back and it's possibly not raining and everything it probably will be easier to tell what's going on Maybe we'll spend a little more time on it. We got got it up and running I mean it was running before but it's running better now. He'll be fine today's friday So we'll get that coming and come back and get it done If we record we record if not I may have to use this for this weekend because like I said It's uh april ain't a whole lot going on right now a lot of maintenance stuff a lot of things I don't really feels that you'd be interested in seeing so This might be your video this weekend. So any help guys appreciate it if you would Subscribe and give it a thumb until next time catch you on the next one later