Don Gillis introduces a new Emerson training kit which includes a disassembled scroll compressor. No need to cut open compressors for training purposes! you can also win one of those at the Symposium!
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It's just here: what do you? What do you got? What do you got to show us? So this comes from the ac side, the the marketing and becky holsters team. This is a. This is a compressor kit, a scroll, obviously, that we are working with the vocational schools nationwide to offer up donate to the schools to get them more engaged on what they scroll the pieces and parts. It's like a puzzle, okay, so it all comes apart.

We are actually by this quirky code, letting folks scan this today and giving one away not this one, because i was told this morning. This is the prototype so that we need to send it back to have it made and it'll be shipped to them. Drawed next week, so uh, so this is what we're doing today. This is kind of the same you're going to make the you're making these kits for training, yes, which is basically just compressors torn apart already, yes, oh my gosh.

I love it yeah yeah! So they're going to do this, so you know you go to a lot of wholesalers as we train and you see people doing this or, like you know, you're some of your videos, yeah cut them up yeah and you have to clean them and degrease. Some of the oil and all that good stuff, so this is going to be already cleaned up, for you comes with this nice carrying case okay and we're going to send it to them. So basically, it's a training tool on scrolls, because you and i have the luxury of seeing what it looks like inside. Not everybody has the time or the luxury of tearing a welded product apart or cutting it open.

So yeah, i remember brian at the school decided to do a live video on cutting the compressor over yeah about 30 minutes later it was like okay, let's turn off the video we're going to cut this open on our own time and then come back and show Us on the other side, that's so much work, yeah yeah you take, for example, trevor matthews up in canada. They actually have a can cutter, they actually have one you can set in their horizontal and he can cut it. You know we most people have to either use a grinder or a sawzall. People are sitting there with a grinder trying to get to the edge of that exactly if they're, even that interested and have the time but exactly yeah.

This is great yeah. It's awesome. That's cool and this this little qr code actually prints out this little step-by-step booklet. That comes with the kit by the way, shows you what you're getting so the school will get this and it kind of gives you some ideas on how to teach it.

What's all involved how to take it apart? What each item is called? You know the fixed scroll, the orbiting scroll and all that good stuff. So it gives somebody, maybe possibly a new instructor, the opportunity you know yeah, so it's uh, i mean everybody's, been really excited. I've had quite a few people up here, signing up uh, so i'm excited to see who wins it. So what is everything here so tell me this is our the top of the page.

Obviously the cap. Okay, this is the muffler plate, or some people refer to it as the muffler uh cap and, basically anything above this under this would be the high side yep. Okay, this anything below it is the low side now we'll stop here. This is an ipr internal pressure.
Relief, okay, so, on most of your refrigerants, this would be like a 450 differential from high to low yeah if it comes out anything higher than that, instead of this turning into a big hand grenade or causing catastrophic it shuts down, that's when you hear that sound It shoots the high temperature gas, the discharge gas down on an inherent protector, that's in the windings that then opens up by the heat of it, and that goes off either on high amps or high temperature. Now, that's what i hear when a system is massively overcharged and it comes on and then after a little while, absolutely yeah, and then you got to let it cool and reset itself on that now, if it's 410a before i get away from that topic, it's going To be a 625 differential, it's going to be higher pressures yeah. This is based on pressure, the ipr this is based on temperature. This is a tod same concept.

It's going to shoot hot gas down there, this all of our safety devices, just underneath on the suction side, are going to hover around 260 to 290.. Again, the oil will start to break down 300 degrees, so this is going to go off when it gets to that mark, depending on the model 260 to 290, somewhere there abouts. But it's going to do the same thing. It's going to open up it's a thermal operating disc that bi-metal separates and shoots the gas down on the same protector.

We just talked about so that's that wow. Here you have the top scroll, the fixed scroll. You have the orbiting scroll at the bottom. You then have the oldham coupling which keeps everything together, and then you have the the upper bearing the straddle bearing this is a bushing that's in there.

If you look close to that, this is what allows the tolerance of like a a droplet of liquid refrigerant. If something like that happens, that's that radial compliance. We talk about all the time. Okay, that left and right movement.

It almost acts as a spring yeah. Okay! So that's that's! That's some of the secret sauce behind our scrolls notice. How this is the shaft is off center, oh yeah, okay, so that allows that orbiting effect on the bottom scroll to mash the gas on the scroll set itself, and then we have the rotor okay and normally this rotor would pull out of this shaft. Okay.

Now, here's a really cool feature on all the scrolls, except the variable scroll variable, speed scroll. We don't have an oil pump in here this. What you see is what you which what we get yeah. These are little paddles.

These are little rudders. If you will they're called flingers, i always refer to them as you think, of a little boat paddle, but long story short. This is sitting down in oil and it moves 3 500 rpms, it's a two-pole motor and when it sits down in here at the bottom, where the oil collects in the bottom of your compressor and if you notice see the size of this hole here, the size Of this hole, you can't see it, but it's a lot smaller than this is yeah. It causes a venturi effect on startup.
These paddles stir that up it's almost like a straw, yeah and this hole. If you could see through it, it's bored out at a slight angle, so it's literally like from a centrifugal force, makes the oil go up almost like a barber pole outside a barber shop wow, and it goes up there. That's how that's the engineering science behind! That's! How the oil gets on to all the moving parts up top since 1986.? Oh my gosh yeah cool, so yeah. Now the variable speed does have a pump in it because we're changing that hurts and slowing it down.

So much more. So that's a different story, but everything else. This is how it works wow. Well, that's that's pretty awesome.

You guys are very lucky. You could probably not hear about a compressor from a more qualified teacher than don and he's been here he's already given talks on this. A couple times here so really appreciate you coming down and teaching us taking the time to to go over this and that's an awesome feature. It comes with a book.

You can actually learn how to teach and you'll learn yourself and have this at your shop. You can show other technicians talk about. You know these safeties in here. That's so cool to be able to actually see that that's amazing, so it is yeah cool yeah.

Thanks, appreciate it emerson thanks you too, by the way i want to. We appreciate getting invited every year. Oh good, good. Glad you guys could come really really appreciate the help everything you guys do to make this kind of thing possible make us be able.


5 thoughts on “Emerson – don gillis presentation”
  1. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Joseph Wright says:

    Awesome!!!

  2. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Neilvester Victor says:

    interesting

  3. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Scott says:

    Excellent, thanks.

  4. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Eli says:

    This is awesome. How can I get one of those? Yes I have one that I cut open. What a mess to teach with that one 😂 Service area Barrhaven??

  5. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Paul Garas says:

    Cutting a scroll apart with a grinder takes about 45 minutes if you’ve done it before.

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