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I'm working on this bar cooler today. I Had another technician over here because on install that we didn't do the install. they had a construction company and the beverage people do the install. but on install they broke this temperature controller.

So we ordered a temp control and we put it on and my service technician. When he came out to put the temp control on he said hey dude, something's wrong with the way they ran these beer lines. That's the discharge air. You can't run the beer lines in the discharge air.

It's going to be 10 to 15 degrees below. set point being 34 degrees. So let's get behind here. They drilled a giant hole in the back of the box.

Let me get all this stuff undone. This is kind of ridiculous. I'm not messing around on this guy. It's a water hose over here.

I Don't have time. it's Saturday morning. It's gonna make a mess. but it's all right.

I Turned off power, just let it drain out through there instead of overflowing in the Box But yeah, this is not looking promising the way they drilled a bunch of holes in the back of the system right there. I'm a bit dumbfounded right now. so they just drilled a bunch of holes and didn't insulate them running through the side of the box. over here.

this is an empty void and then it goes into this region over here. I Can hear the air the fan motors from this box in this box meaning that whatever. I don't know if there's a Channel or what that is looks like they put some spray foam but I can look back there I Can hear the fan from the other unit. it's not foamed right? Like this isn't right.

Nothing about this is right. This is going To freeze these lines. This is insane. This is discharge air.

It sucks in here and blows out the top of the coil. All these lines are going to freeze my God these people like. Not to mention if I ever have to change this evap coil or the TXV behind it which is very common, you got to take all this stuff out and the whole thing pulls forward. These guys ruin this box and the refrigeration lines.

The propane refrigeration lines are right there. What are the odds? they didn't hit the lines when they drilled that six inch hole in the back of the box? I can I can't show it on camera but I stuck my hands back in there and I can feel a giant opening like and they want to know why this thing ices up every other day. I Here's your sign I pulled this cover off. They do have a channel back here.

It's a tube but it's not really insulated very well. Um, you know, just some foam tape right in here. This isn't the greatest, but it's not as bad as I thought it was going to be. But like, yeah, there's holes through here.

They've got the unit plugged into an extension cord splitter that seems safe. Oh yeah, look at that. That's okay, right? My gosh, man. All right, we're gonna turn this guy back on and put it all back together.

So basically they've routed the beer lines they're pushing down on this motor. They're rubbing on the coil, but they're in the discharger and this unit is not a very awesome unit. I Don't like it in general because it draws air in through the fan motor and then just naturally because there's nowhere else for it to go. It goes under the evaporator minute.

Wait a minute. Is this something missing here? Oh I think they took something out because there's nothing stopping. I Think there's supposed to be a deflector in here deflecting the air. Oh I Swear to you, they're supposed to be a deflector in here.

I Just realized that it draws air in it, goes under the evaporator, then it's forced out on the top. you know, through the evaporator and then out through here. But I Gotta go watch a video because I just made a video on one of these I think there's a deflector missing out of this I think they took it out so they can run their beer lines all right? So I went and reviewed some footage from a previous video and this is a screenshot of the deflector that is supposed to be there and that deflector blocks the evaporator, allowing the return air to go underneath and then it shoots the discharge air out the top allowing it to go you know, on top of the deflector so that way the airs don't mix. Yeah! I Just realized what they did wrong.

I Just watched one of my previous videos where I just worked on one of these. There's a giant deflector that basically goes down at an angle behind the fan motor and directs this this return air underneath the coil and then it's forced out the top of the coil and without that deflector, what's happening is the coil is not getting proper airflow and it's just like you know, recircing air. The air is not getting behind it so it's freezing up. and also there's supposed to be a channel coming out the top of here that extends out a couple inches that helps the direct the air past this evaporator fan motor for the return path.

So the installers threw that away. My gosh, this is epic because they're dying right now. They just had this region installed and guaranteed that piece ain't coming for a week or two from glass tender like I can't get a hold of them this weekend they're going to go with they're gonna have to 86 all their beers for the weekend because this thing's just gonna ice up every five minutes. I'm wondering if I can do something with cardboard or something which would be shady as fudge.

but I wonder if I can make it work? I'm gonna pull this back out again I'm gonna try my best to help this customer out. I Got my inner MacGyver going on piece of cardboard, some duct tape for rigidity, then some metal clad, uh, aluminum tape or whatever. make myself a temporary baffle. Pretty sturdy because I was worried the cardboard would just absorb all the moisture and then just disintegrate or fall in the fan motor.

So let's see if I can make this work as a temporary baffle. I'm going to make the beer company rip out all the freaking beer lines. This is going to be epic. Well I mean it's MacGyver stuff.

This is literally just temporary until the beer company comes in here and figures out a new place for the lines because they can't go. Here's what happened. This is the old style cooler that they replaced. This one had a different setup.

There was a big empty void on the top of the box so not that I like it. but they ran their beer lines up top and it was no big deal. So they thought that the new one which was a total different airflow setup. They could just take that baffle out, throw it away, not say anything to anybody, and then just you know everything will work.

Hunky-dory I'm surprised I caught it right now and I'm not upset with my other technician for not catching it because you know you don't think about that stuff I was just explaining to my camera. Had I not been talking to you guys explaining how the airflow works I probably wouldn't have caught that issue. maybe I would have I don't know but yeah, they took out a whole entire baffle, took screws out and everything. That's insane.

This is so epic. So we have a definite separation between return and Supply now. So 51 degrees return temp. I've got a 51 degree return temp on my Smart probes and a 26 degree Supply temp.

So those beer lines are totally going to freeze so the Box isn't going to ice up anymore, but the beer lines are going to be frozen by the end of the day. Um, the other thing though too is like this: this thing is not even really sitting in here like it's ridiculous man. I Just I'm dumbfounded by this install. What they're gonna have to do.

This is what I'm going to recommend to them because their beer lines aren't going to work and there's not enough room behind the box to run the lines out the back. Um, so what they're gonna have to do is this cooler right here is going to have to be swapped with this cooler. This cooler. they're both the same length so this cooler comes over here.

so that way the condenser goes on the right side, right? this cooler goes over there. so that way the condenser goes on the left side. Then they can drill their hearts away through the sides because there won't be condenser space there and we can get them a proper Channel made I Don't know how much I want to get involved in this? See my problem is I don't do these installs. First off, I wouldn't do the beer lines but the customer would love if I would run these jobs for them.

But I don't really like doing night work and I don't have a crew for it. It takes 10 guys to lift these units over this bar top right here. There's a big bar top right here and it takes up to 10 guys sometimes more because you got to lift it over without damaging the bar top. I Don't have that crew I'm four guys with myself like you know we don't do this stuff but I Just dumbfounded that these guys just think that they can remove stuff you know, like and just throw it away without saying anything like this is insane.

Another thing that happened too: I Mentioned that we had to change attempt control so they broke the front cover completely okay and they didn't tell us. but they took the cover off the old unit and you can tell because there's rust down there at the bottom of the cover. So what they did was they took the cover. They shoved the new control in it.

but when they did that, there's a piece that protects the control right here. a channel that runs all the way over here and protects the control from getting wet. And that piece is missing now too. So we're going to order that inner baffle.

We're going to order this whole new cover right here. with that channel that covers the temp control like this is just insane. And to think these people are legally allowed to breed. You know what? I'm saying like still not enough I've also got a it's still getting recirced air so I got to cover this space.

there's a space right on top I'll have to cover that this is getting ridiculous. What? I'm having to do. These beer lines are super cold so I'm gonna have to like tape all these beer lines together. hope that those seal off that little space right there and then make another space and tape it to the top of this coil cover.

This is insane. What? I'm having to do here all this so they can serve some beer like why? I guess I'm just gonna be the hero here. This is just insane that looks a little better and that makes sense. We've got about a 10 degree separation between Supply and return.

so hmm. interesting. So I think that maybe we that coil was just getting too cold because it was frosting up and it was still having mixing of the returning. Supply So let's see if this box comes down to: Temp Now it's at 47 right now I Just got in there, defrost that little bit of frost, put some more tape on there and I'm gonna watch it for a few more minutes.

All right, we are doing good Now it's down to Temp it's not frosted up anymore. We've got a good temperature differential, so I'm gonna contact the powers that be and talk to them about permanent solutions to this. But what a cluster, right? That was interesting, right? Like, sometimes it can be difficult, right? but sometimes these really difficult, frustrating calls can be some of the best memories. Uh, I don't know if that makes sense to you, but after the fact, you get a dopamine release when you solve a problem.

okay, I was frustrated I sent another service technician out there and I was thinking that maybe something was done wrong but nothing was done wrong. Okay, we did everything right and I absolutely do not fault the other service technician for catching for not catching the fact that that baffle was missing because why would you think a baffle was missing if I wasn't explaining it to my phone? I'm pretty confident that I would have gotten another call back on it right? and then I would have probably gone out the third time and then like what is going on and then I would have realized that there's an actual piece missing to the unit that someone just took out like what? Like this is what I don't understand what goes on in someone's brain When I said that, it was dumbfounded that people, these people are allowed to breed I'm dead serious what goes through someone's brain? Something came on a unit. It had four screws holding it in and they think, eh, let's just get rid of it because it's in my way. I'm sorry, that is just there's not even a word for that.

That is is just it's I don't even know what to say. it's it's just ridiculous. Okay, um, unfortunately we're seeing more and more of this these days. It really is a bummer.

I wish I I could have more people working for me, but it's not that easy. Okay, I'm very very concerned about the quality of work that I put out there and I have to make sure that my employees are are putting out high quality work. and in the past, the more employees that I have, the more difficult it is to control um, how the company is running and and how things go. So I I keep it small I keep it small because I want my customers to have the utmost satisfaction with the kind of work that we do.

Okay in a perfect world I run these jobs for them Okay, but I really don't care to do night work because here's my dilemma with night work. It's probably going to be me that goes out there and does this night work okay or me and another technician right. but we would have to have a crew of people there, so more than likely I'd still have to have the construction crew come out and I would literally just be supervising their work. Okay, doesn't sound like a bad gig, right? You get paid overtime to sit there and watch a construction crew lift the box over, you help them lift it, you do whatever.

but then I'm not available to work the next day. Okay, because if I'm at this site supervising everything at the construction crew and the beverage people do, then I'm there till three four five in the morning and then I leave and I go home and I sleep and I don't get to work the next day I work almost every day at my service company. In fact, a good majority of the time I'm putting in more hours than all of my employees. Okay, because I'm still a principal service technician at the service company that I run.

Okay, now some people may say that's bad. that's a wrong way to run a business. Go pound sand. That's how I run my business I Enjoy it.

Okay I Love working I genuinely do I despise sitting in an office you know, send in emails and stuff right? I just I hate that I hate that I Love working I love being out in the field I Love doing work. Okay, so that's just how I roll right. But I'm starting to really question when I'm seeing more and more of these big failures like this, right? There's there's clearly not someone supervising. There's not someone out there making sure that they're running the job right.

And it's a bummer. It truly is. It's It's a bummer that this kind of work happens if someone is not holding someone's hands. I don't like micromanaging, micromanaging.

it's it's silly. but unfortunately, this is what happens if someone is not there supervising the entire crew. How many people do you think were on that job like I said, it takes like 10 people to move those boxes? Okay, so I bet you they had somewhere between probably six to ten people on that job. Okay, and and not one of the six to ten people didn't think when someone was taking Parts out of the box that it was a a not so smart move.

Not one person thought hey, this giant baffle that's huge is just not needed you know and then someone just threw it in the trash like what goes through people's brains and I hate to be a jerk I don't want to sound like I'm up on a high horse, but come on common sense and I know I know I Got in trouble years ago from one of my employees when I had the same discussion about something similar it's common sense and I was it's not so common to everybody else and it's like it should be. It should be okay. This this is unacceptable. This kind of work.

It really is okay. It's just I don't know what else to say. So here's the deal. I made a temporary baffle.

It looks stupid I know it's made out of cardboard and foil tape and whatever I know it's dumb, but guess what, The customer's serving beer right now. Okay, so I did what I had to do to get the customer operational. Because see, here's the thing before this refrigerator. uh, was replaced right.

The left side refrigerator was working. the right side was not. so. they only lost four or five kegs of beer in the right refrigerator because it was completely down.

but the left side was still Cooling and the beer lines were still running through the right side cooler. so they'd have to waste about half a pitcher of beer to clear the beer lines the warm beer in there. But once they got serving beer, it was pumping from the left cooler that was still working right? This one wasn't working at all anymore because they were freezing the beer lines because of the way that they installed it right and the coil was icing up and it was just causing problems. So I felt bad for the customer, you know and I didn't do anything wrong.

My employees didn't do anything wrong right? We went in there and it's just like oh my gosh, you would never think that someone would have taken something from a refrigerator. All right. So we did our best. I Went back today, it was actually today.

it's uh, August 19th I'm sitting in my office uh editing this because I was like this was a really great video. So I decided to make it for today. push past some other footage that I had right? Um, so you know I'm gonna send emails Galore I don't even know how I want to approach this because I really don't like throwing people under the bus and emails I really don't I don't like to get involved and he said she said and finger pointing and stuff like I just don't I just as soon tell the customer that we need these two parts and then just let them figure it out. I really would.

But inevitably I think that they're gonna quiz me on this one and I'm gonna have to explain everything that happened and this is unacceptable So you know I think what's gonna have to happen and I'm I know the customer is going to agree with me is I'm going to have to figure out a way to supervise these jobs for them, you know I just I don't know what else to do, you know? Um, now to be fair, the customer wanted me to go out and do the startup and that's kind of what I was doing here was going out. my initial visit: I went out and noticed that the temperature controller was broken. they call. They sent an email after the unit was installed and they said there's something wrong.

there's a piece missing like whatever. So I went out there and I was like, well, the temp control is broken and it was I stopped the first day that I was there but I didn't mess with anything I didn't look any further because temp control is broken I'm not even going to try to waste my time troubleshooting. We need to change the control first. So we ordered the control and then my technician actually went out.

I was there doing something else that day, but my technician went out there changed the control and that was basically yesterday. Uh, August 18th and then I got a call yesterday evening saying hey, it's still not working right and then here we are August 19th. Okay, so I went out super early this morning. figured it out watch The Box satisfy.

Turn on and off multiple times right? So the solution is like I mentioned in the video. Swap the boxes. If they swap the boxes, they'll have to. We'll have to scan the top of the box with stainless steel where the tap heads are going.

We'll have to cover that up. The one that has the tap heads on it's going to go to the left. The one that doesn't is going to go to the right. They'll have to re-drill holes in the right side cooler, put tap heads in it.

Then they can drill holes out the side of the boxes and they won't be impeding anything with the Um with the condenser areas because they really shouldn't be drilling into those areas ever. You never know what you're going to hit. it's just a bad idea. So then I guess I'll probably get them a proper Channel made too.

which getting that channel is going to be interesting. but I'll get them a proper Channel made and we'll probably have to fill that void with stainless steel and do it right. Okay, we'll make sure that this is done right and it's working correctly. When I do that, we'll make sure that the box is no longer plugged into a three-way extension cord like that.

Just, and you know the other thing too. And I think I mentioned it in the video. The new box is propane. It's flammable refrigerant.

How lucky are they that they didn't hit that flammable refrigerant line with the hole saw that was really, really hot after they just drilled through. You know, a bunch of stainless steel and they're lucky something didn't go boom hahaha This this is this. These people are allowed to breathe. That's all I can say.

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