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so the first thing I do is come into the Beer Walk and it's down to temperature in here. No problems. Um, so we're gonna get up to the glycol unit and check to see what's going on with the glycol unit. That's probably where our problem lies.

Guess what? I'm back. I've done a lot of work on these units. This is one of my favorite ones because it has its own mini split up here. But uh yeah, it looks like that glycol unit has a problem because it should be maintaining about 26 to 28 degrees glycol temp and we're high and then that bottom pump is at 46.

So I bet you got a bad pump. All right. So we come up to this guy and uh, this pump's not running and you can clearly see maybe I lost a bearing because that looks like bearing dust. Uh, these pumps don't last very long.

They're under a lot of abuse. This one looks like I installed at 9 14, 20. So it's over a year old so probably gonna need to put a new pump on here, but we need to verify that's all that's wrong. We need to make sure it's getting the right voltage and everything and at the same time we don't just ignore that one would come over here I Don't know.

this one's kind of high too. 36 degrees huh? running. Running? We're running, but it's a bit. High What's the set point at 31-0 That's not too bad, but I'd like to see higher than 36.

or lower than 36. But all right. Well we're going to go over to this guy because this guy I think is where our problem is. So for those that are wondering that are new, these are glycol units.

They're tiny chillers and what they do is they circulate cold antifreeze. but this is food grade glycol. It's propylene glycol. it's in a reservoir up here.

this is an older unit. newer units are a little bit more efficient, but this one has a reservoir and then they have a that bath of solution is refrigerated and dropped down usually around 26 to 28 degrees and it's circulated via these pumps and what it does, pumps it up and it catches the beer lines. The beer lines coming out of the Beer Walk and the beer walk-in has uh maintaining. you know, 37 38 degrees.

but the beer taps are a good couple hundred feet away from the beer walking and in this case the lines. I Think some of the lines run underground I think some of them run above ground and these glycol lines keep the beer cold from point A to the Taps. So from the beer walk into the Taps it keeps them nice and cold. So that way you get nice cold beer clearly hear the pump.

it's turning on and off on overload. It's it's locked up so we still got a check voltage though to make sure it's red hot. the other one's running. It's hot too, but it's running so so you always want to double check.

I Pulled the the pump assembly off of the motor and then when I try to spin it I Don't know if you guys can hear that, but it clearly has bad bearings. Sounds completely metallic and it's got rough spots there. It's trying right now. so um, yeah, this guy's dead.

So I'm gonna go get a new pump and motor. We've changed the assembly together. Get some insulation tape, the other one's working. I'm going to turn the unit back on and let the other side run.

You may remember if you guys remember me working on this unit about a year ago or something like that, they had a bunch of burnt up electrical in there. It's a good sign, there's nothing burnt in there. Everything looks okay. I Put a new controller on it a while back and then we put all new switches and thermometers and everything looking good.

so it's just a matter of unbolting the the pump. Usually what you can do is just take it out of the Cradle leave the Cradle bolted on. Um, as long as everything fits, we'll do that. and uh, we just gotta undo this electrical connector down at the bottom for the MX connector right here and we can just pull it out, wire it in, put the new one on.

that's where we're at. Uh I brought a pump, uh, bucket. always bring a bucket up and towels and everything because these things usually make a mess when you have to undo the glycol, lines and stuff. All right.

So what I did was I disconnected all the wires to that connector right there and undid it so I could just pull the whole thing out and then that way I can just you know, do my swap outside make my life easy instead of trying to fight it over there as I'm going through here I'm taking pictures of everything too. even though I know how to wire this up, it just makes my life easier. You know when it's like oh, I really don't want to think much just wired up the way that it was? you know? um, but yeah, this shouldn't be too difficult, should be good. All right.

I'm at the point right now where I'm changing the pump and I've got glycol flowing out so I'm able to use the bucket I cleaned it out as best as possible to catch the remaining glycol. so I don't have to waste it and now I'm going to switch out the other side and keep going with this guy. All right. First and foremost, we got 120 volts going to it I've got this guy connected I don't insulate it until I turn it on and make sure I don't have any leaks.

We'll turn this guy on real quick. kind of sketch. We're allowed to run 6.1 amps and we're right there. Let's give it a little bit.

Yeah, we're right there. right on point. so we're gonna let it run for a few minutes. Make sure there's no, uh, no issues, but we know we have the right voltage going to it.

Um yeah, we're gonna let it run for a bit. All right, we are back up and running and we just got to give it some time. Um I'm looking at the sight glass. you guys can't see it but it's right there and it's clear.

So I don't see a need to put on service gauges. The condenser is clean, the filter is clean, so we're good on that. It's just, uh, hurry up and wait. Now we're gonna watch this thing come down and tent.

make sure everything else works on it. All right. Everything is looking good. Um, pumps are running.

Life is good on those temperatures drop significantly, it's still not low enough. Uh, our set point is 31. So it looks like the beverage company got in here and upped the set points on these because normally I see them 26 to 28. but I'm going to leave them where they have them because they're The Magicians when it comes to the the beer stuff, I'm just here to just you know, knuckle bust the pumps and motors in.

Um, but yeah, we're looking good. So uh I'm gonna tell him to keep an eye on it. Um, fluid's moving like it should be I put the fluid back in it. Oh yeah, we're flowing nice and good.

Everything's looking great so we are going to, uh, give them the keys. This particular video actually has been sitting in my archives it was from it was completed in 2021 so it's obviously a couple years old but still relevant information. It's funny when I watch these videos too because as I'm going through things I'm like would I have done things differently now now that it's been two years since this video was filmed or or a year and a half or whatever it is. No, it's it's really cool, you know.

recently I went back to my channel and I watched the very first video on my channel thinking like how is my service diagnosing has like how has it changed you know, pretty much the same I watched my first video which was me diagnosing a beer walking that had a blown fuse and I'm like as I'm watching it it's funny because my wife was sitting next to me I was like this that was like five years ago and I I would diagnose this The Identical same way my verbiage would probably be the exact same. It's kind of kind of funny how that stuff works, but uh, this was just a bad pump. Okay, these little glycol units or glycol chillers, whatever you want to call them beer coolers? Beer: Chillers Um, there's really not a whole lot to them, you know, just a refrigeration section and a secondary fluid. a glycol or antifreeze, whatever you want to call it.

and it's just pumped through the lines. The whole point though, kind of I I Said it in the video a little bit. but the whole point is is that you've got beer in the beer walking. but you've got to run those lines.

Uh, in this situation, they go underground into the bar and then that's where you know they can gain the temperature from underground, right? because there's a lot of heat content in the ground. and so as those lines run through a Chase they're obviously absorbing the Heat and it can bring the beer lines up. And so you end up with a lot of wasted beer. Because if you know the beer lines get above 40 degrees, you'll start to get foaming as the beer is coming out of the Taps and then the foam equals wasted beer.

So they try to keep them cold from point A to point B The beer lines themselves are usually the the fluid that's circulating in there is usually I'd say about 10 degrees colder than the medium that they're trying to keep cool. So the beer that way they can actually have heat transfer and they just wrap around and are super insulated in the beer line. So there's usually only two glycol lines or maybe four glycol lines in an entire uh, trunk line of beer lines that's running underground or up in the attic, whatever it may be. So they're really not too complicated.

they can just be. It can be a little difficult to diagnose like problems with pumps and different things like that. Where it can get kind of tricky is if you have a pump that's not operating efficiently. Another thing to differentiate or explain is that we will often refer to it as a pump when we're talking about the whole assembly.

In this situation. you know in the beginning I said we had a bad pump, but in actuality the motor had bad bearings. But what can cause the motors typically to go bad is the pumps going bad. The glycol in the system actually needs to be changed regularly.

The glycol can pick up a lot of contaminants and especially if it's not maintained properly and stuff so there can be contaminants in there and those pumps can get gummed up with Gunk and it gets kind of hard to turn the actual brass pump itself and then that's usually what ruins the motors and what damages the bearings and the motors. To be honest with you, majority of the failures that we see on these is that the little um piece that comes out of the pump that's connected to the impeller. Basically that will usually get rounded out. you know where it goes into the motor connection.

and so anyways, they're really, really not that difficult. It's just the basic fundamentals that we learned. You know about refrigeration and air conditioning. You've got a refrigeration system and you have a motor that's circulating a cooling fluid, right? a glycol and that's it.

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