Bryan and Sal show how Speed Clean's cleaning tool is used to clean a condenser.
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Now, a lot of guys will make fun of me because I don't need to drill very often they just hate cross threading time. So yes, it's an old school old-timers excuse to use tools, i'm brian with hvac school, i'm sal with products by pros. That was me saying: hi hi everyone today we're talking about the coil shot by Queen, and you know more about this than I do well, yes, someone! Let you talk for once? Okay, so speaking as a company is a variety of different cleaning solutions for HVAC, our don't forget, they are yep. This cool shot right here, specifically from my experience.
It's worked best with most of the condensers outside, rather than carrying around a large hopper with a powered cleaning solution. You can just hook this up to a hose. Stick a cleaning tablet right here in the back pop it open. Stick your tablet right in here, which we have sticking in the tablets in there.
Let it mix with the water from the hose control your amount of cleaning solution through the knob here and spray down with a foam cleaner and then, when you're done spraying out with the foam cleaner turn off the cleaning solution from this dial here and then rinse. It down with your regular water, okay, so advantages to the solution to this as a cleaning solution, so we're saying solution, two different ways: cleaning solution solution, so this is a solution to all your cleaning needs now. So the reason why this makes sense is because you don't have to carry around liquid cleaners. Liquid cleaners can spill in the truck.
They can make a mess. It takes a big jug, so all you need is the smaller tablets and then the other nice thing is. You don't have to carry around the pump sprayer right now or maybe a powered pump, sprayer or whatever. This just makes it easy.
Now you do have to have decent hose pressure in order for this to work appropriately, correct, yeah and the reason I said this is best for a condition from my experiences. You wouldn't want to drag a hose. Yes, if you're doing it in the house, that would be bad if you're doing a pool and clean, though you could certainly use this for a pool and clean of a protocol. They do have a couple different types of cleaners.
They have the more heavy duty which is a stronger cleaner. You got to want to be really careful with this. Wear your PPE, you don't get it on your skin, don't use it inside where it's gon na you know get in the customer's air and then they have the tablet that comes with. It is a more mild cleaning solution which you know if you're doing your everyday sort of maintenance type cleaning, that's what you're kind of want to go with.
So it's always important that you choose the right cleaner for the job and they make a couple different ones here, but instead of talking, let's go ahead and actually show this thing. I news yep we're gon na go beginning to end the cleaning of proper cleaning of a condenser coil. So the first thing I want to do is I'm gon na take this top off. The first thing I want to do is shut the disconnect off. So disconnect is pooled and now we're gon na confirm that power is off alright, so quick note here, a lot of people will run a wand for the top or just spray from the outside. That's fine in certain applications, but in Florida we get a lot of stuff done on the inside of the unit, and so when doing a maintenance, I want my technicians to all pull the top so that way they can get in. They can clean the debris out and they can also check the wires check, compressor terminal things like that. So this is something you would do typically on a maintenance.
If you prefer to use a you, prefer to use a wand and go down through the top. That's fine in certain applications as well, but this is the way I actually do it. So I've got it on volt scale. I'm gon na check leg to leg on the bottom here to make sure yeah we've got nothing and then I'm gon na check leg to ground as well, just to make sure that we don't have maybe one leg.
That's still connected inside that disconnect. So we're good to go, I'm safe to pull the top all right, so normally the first thing I'm going to do is clean all these leaves out of the bottom. I'm mostly doing this for demonstration purposes, so I'm not going to do that right now. That would be.
That would be the first step I would do, but since we're gon na just do a cleaning here, the first thing I'm going to do is pre rinse the condenser, and I need to make sure I get everything out of the way that I don't want to Get wet, I'm gon na turn the dial I'm going to start with it about half way and see what kind of foam we built and I'm gon na build up my foam from the bottom to the top. So once I know that I've gotten the cleaner into the coil, I'm gon na, let it dwell about five minutes and then I'm gon na go back and rinse it all right. So once we've, given it a chance to sit and dwell for a little bit now, I'm just gon na turn it back to the rinse side, and now it's not going to run water over the cleaner. It's just going to direct bypass and I'm using it like any other hose nozzle when I rinse I'm going to start from the top and work my way down.
Obviously your technique is gon na vary slightly depending on how soil the coil is. If it's cut heavy soil, then you're gon na use a heavier duty cleaner. You may do it a couple times: rinse, it repeat, sort of a situation, a lot of guys get really concerned about working from the outside into the coil. And I agree that primarily you want to work from the inside out, but it doesn't hurt to apply a little foam on the outside and then, if you are going to work from the outside, if there's debris caught on the outside, you want to just work at An angle going downwards, with your with your wand, so if you're working from the outside, you always want to kind of push it downwards with your wand, but when you're building up your material or your foam, it's better to start from the bottom up. So that way, you kind of stack your foam up, i'm brian with hvac school. This has been the coil shot by speed clean thanks for watching.
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I'll stick with the coil gun or a pump sprayer. Just bought a Supco electric power washer for nasty evap coils. I just don't see the advantage to this thing, and it don't appear to make much foam.
Someone get this chap a drill ! Service area Nepean??
Good for an indoor evaporator like a mini split system but the outdoor condenser would require heavy corrosive chemical that could eat away the coil. There are other systems like the Supco that uses 150psi and uses the pressure to clean deeper without the use of corrosive solution. I’m leaning more towards the 150psi pressure washer, this unit is ok for home units, for larger commercial units I would think it is less effective and time consuming. But again, don’t knock it till you try it.
This unit reminds me much of the Miracle-gro gimmick that my wife is using to fertilize the garden. Same concept, same pressure, same spray, you could probably stick the tablet into the $10 miracle-fro unit, 😂
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Biggest piece of crap and waste of money on the market. You're lucky to even get two cleanings out of those tablets. SNAKEOIL.
I would not buy or use this product. I use Rerigeration Technologies Heavy Duty Coil Cleaner BECAUSE the foaming bubble action is proven to clean better then anything else. This is a shameless plug for a bad product. John Pastorello would be ashamed of you Bryan.
Its crap. I used it for several condensers. Pellet would not fully dissolve and coil was not cleaned as good as liquid. Anyone want to buy one cheap? Are you in Ottawa ?
I can see the advantages of that style.
Not bad, still prefer the liquid jugs. I love jugs 👀
Meh,don't like it. My company won't supply me with those cleaning packets when everyone else is using liquid. And my guess is that most companies will also not want to buy 2 different cleaning agents.
interesting.
Are use the coil jet and really did not like it. But this looks much better