 All right, so we've got us a residential unit here that wasn't running And now it is he said because you're gonna think I'm crazy so Now I've got to play detective because it does Feel like it's working. Let's go ahead start poking in here and see what we can find out. Let's check her contactor. Let's check her Faster looks like the coils clean. He said the filters brand new So we're getting all the obvious things Suction is nice and cold which for the year of this thing, which is the 2011 and it's a three-ton unit. Let's let's check. It could be some bugs in the contactor, too It's just starting narrowing things down This little electrical as always my normal disclaimer. You're not playing here This is shock the crap out of you and may kill you so don't do it looking at it Everything seems pretty tight so Here the something tank over there we're doing this thing kind of got a wine noise to it make sure these things did Let's check this capacitor out. See where we're at. It's very hot. It's kind of warm All right, let's see what we've got here 43 micro farad it's rated for 45 jumping over to the fan 3.9 It's rated for five. So it's definitely out on that one So 45 and we're at 40 43 so do the math on either way it's getting weak. I want it replaced Contactor See what we got. It's kind of pitted What I do on case like this. I just replace both things. They're cheap items. We don't rate people for them. So Both items need should be replaced my feeling I like to have a contactor that has a Bug shield on it. We're out here in the country. So as you can see, I mean you got fields everywhere. So Bugs tend to be out here a little more than probably what's in town We we guams or whatever you call them. They tend to get in there. You see the spider's been in here and stuff. So Let's go ahead and get them a capacitor on there And the in the contactor and then we'll check refrigerant level Coil looks like it's clean. Sometimes that can be deceiving. I'm gonna talk to him Everything's running right now. So I did see a couple things that are a little bit concerning the contactor, which is the thing that switches on and off and makes it run It's a little pitted, which usually means it could eventually have problems making contact I like to use one that has a bug shield in it, which kind of protects you from that possibility Sometimes a bug will get in there. They'll get caught and then you turn it off and then it releases them Then they walk away like a little criminal and you know, and then you have no clue what caused it The capacitor, which is just a device that makes the compressor and the fan run Um, they're a little bit weak. So I'd like to change those neither one of them are that expensive So I'd like to change both of those and then I still need to check the refrigerant yet So That's where I was at when it was acting up was the outside unit running Yeah, it was running It was putting out like halfway Seems slow It was putting out it was a little cool But it wasn't on the inside or outside Inside here So you could feel a little sump. All right. So we've got total line, which is exact o.m. Even though it's my phone died So we're going to have to uh record with the gopro We're able to get in here pretty easy now. Thanks to the uh gopro sticking right here on the disconnect box Unfortunately this capacitor like I said is a little bit bigger About he myth Probably just use the strap That isn't place Let's all get there Guess we could probably check it beforehand. Why not? Let's let's be good citizens here and Check and see what we got you ever know the Place that was billed at may have been cracking out 45.2 and 5.0 So we know that it's good Like I said powers off completely and it's been verified I do not like Straighted wire underneath these contactors. The reason why we use the one we use Is because it actually has lugs One leg is constantly hot Which See my new clients Got the strippers built into them pretty slick Down in my tool description down below. I will If you click on that link down there everything you see in my videos Is listed down there And then if it's not then you got a link to Anything in the amazon signs that kind of stuff Help support the channel without having to spend any money because I know how everybody out there loves to spend money There we go kind of snags it a little bit. I don't know if I like that part though They're not quite as I don't know. I don't know if I like them as well as regular strippers But what we're gonna do Since that's a one pole we're going to put the Yellow wire for the compressor on the bottom with the power wire coming in and that way It's the same as a single pole what they do is to try to keep that compressor warm supposedly Whatever Agree disagree whatever Let's uh Restrip that There we go. Yeah, it's I think with these here It kind of seems like you got to uh crimp down or Strip down and then pull let up a little bit. It seems like it Does less damage to the wire that way for whatever reason These wire ties are pretty slick. They got a hole already drilled in them And it's bigger width wise than what most of them are. So we should be able to use that same screw So that's not going anywhere. I mean Yeah, it's not as strong as the metal a lot better than these idiots that leave it in a box Basically we're taking care of present preventative maintenance type items those we're taking care of Get all of our wires out of the way of everything. Everything's pretty tight Let's check and see what our compressor startup amps is in rush So we got you here Boom 81 Pulling 8.4 That was just the compressor and then check our fan Fan's right at 1.3, which it's rated four 1.4 So fan motors in the ballpark range Okay, well, let's watch it for a bit here and see if we can find out what's causing its issue Blankin so they should be showing up. I don't know what the deal is here. It's kind of ticking me off Let's go into the deal piece. I don't know what's going on either All right, so we're starting to jump note nine here It is not finding them. I wonder what the hell's going on with my phone I might have to go grab the old gauges. This is the reason why I like gauges Gee whiz turn them all off. What a joke 50 degree evaporator 97 degree outdoor I think it's probably at least 85 degrees out here If not 87 Okay, well, it's 90 out here So for me, it looks like we're going to be low We've got a 10 degree super heat and a 1.5 sub pooling So now we need to find out what's our metering device. So we have txv or we a orifice Now what's kind of crazy is We're only running five degrees over ambient on our discharge, which seems a little low Can I come in? I want to check the furnace real quick All right, so it's obviously a little bit low And that's probably one of the end coils So it's probably leaking go ahead and get it recharged and then we can always Give me the option to look for a leak Which no one likes the solution once you find the leak gotta find a leak gotta find a leak Okay, you need to replace the coil. Oh, no, I don't want to do that lucky lucky Had to label it because it's Inside the machine mission is because it won't be long. It's going to be gone Have a little bit to it and see if we can get this at there was 16 on this big turf Txv was doing its job as best it could it was holding the Superheat there So we're at 90 now we have about 101 We're just going to climb up old 410a loves to take forever to build up its pressure I don't know how many times I've been On calls where the guys rushed it in and overcharged it It's one of the weirdest refrigerants because it it always seems to It stays low then all of a sudden come Boom it just expands and just goes nuts Compared to the other refrigerants. I don't have that problem with really anything else before 10a It's just very temperamental We're at 9 degrees subcooling no super heat at all, which is real wonderful Which meant surprise me if I got a txv it's right going bad. We'll have to give it a little time to Get satisfied There the txv is trying to recover look out there. He's cutting back. It's going to drive it subcooling out Definitely the refrigerant charge was uh off but And today was kind of a warm day so that could have been a majority of the issue Super heat's still coming up That's good I had a bunch of them out there that super heat was always low on them Makes you wonder if they cooled the bulb And they were brazing it in or if they just roasted it So now we're running 15 degrees over ambient. We finally got our 15.6 for just almost 16 degrees subcooling Super heat's diddle dinking down there in three degree land. We're going to give it a while to situate But we're looking a little more in line with where things should be at back graders running 50 105 on the condensing so So far so good All's that super heat decides to come back up where it needs to come to I went ahead and wrote the uh subcooling the pounds of refrigerant Product numbers should all number all that inside there so they'll have it for later Our super heats fluctuating four and a half to five areas subcooling's around 17 and a half So i'm a degree or two over Not a humongous deal And watch it for a little bit coil looks really really clean Um, usually I like to worse it out, but unfortunately There's no freaking water spickets anywhere around here to be found So it ain't the measure quick cap must be my probes are acting stupid because it's working with my Manifold here. So we're right at 16 with a five degree super heat It's slowly stabilizing out everything's happy go lucky there. Let's go inside see what our temperature drop is Um, definitely it was about pound and a half low. So Don't know if that's enough to really kill it, but definitely wasn't right So it got jealous and now the freaking thing is working. I'm not sure why It's now working So 77 coming in we're already at 58 and dropping so we're looking pretty good We've got a 20 degree drop Go ahead and close that back up So that's going to wrap that one up there basically we've got a system as low on refrigerant most likely leaking formic carry corrosion It's not in warranty the cost of the refrigerants nowhere near that So it's just obviously smarter just to add a little bit of refrigerant to it. It's not been leaking out very quickly I don't think he's had to have service very often Coils were clean contact. There's never a bad idea to replace because You know the bug shield on there and just the pitting and stuff like that You can have coils failing when a system's running like that all you can do is ask the questions Which is what I I did there and that's the reason why I showed it in the video You know, when did it do it which part was running and you got to be specific because you know, They'll say, yeah, I was running but they don't they don't they may not be talking about the outside unit They're just talking about the inside unit. So you got to make sure you ask them Which area was running? Was it just the inside? Was the outside? Did it feel like it was hot? Did it feel like it was cold? Did you see any sweating on the lines? You know You can ask a lot of questions and maybe they'll know maybe they won't what are you out if they don't You know, if you didn't ask you're you might be going on the wrong Rambo trail for nothing a system that's running Uh when you get there is definitely a pain in the butt sometimes But you know, obviously we found it low on refrigerant. So we know that didn't help it a whole lot Especially that we're you know, we're at 90 degrees today. So it's a little warmer. That's a mobile home So it gets hot fast in those things. So it doesn't take long and it don't take much to put it under Three tons of cooling is what that was and usually that's a bare bone minimum Outdoor coil is clean everything looked good on that You know the pastor was weak What was it ready to fail on the next day or two? 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