This video is brought to you by sportlin quality, integrity and tradition. We got a call on some cook's drawers, not working, we went downstairs, the thermostat is calling it's like 70 degrees in the box. This is the compressor right here, so we're putting our service gauges on it to figure out. What's going on, the compressor is not running at the moment.

All right we've got the compressor opened up. The compressor is really warm we're going to go ahead and check voltage. Let's see this wire and this wire and we have 202 volts. This is a 208 single phase, so that is power.

It should be turning on right now, but it's not it's really really hot and i think it's turning on and off on overload it's kind of loud, but i think i can hear the overload clicking so we're gon na do is go right here and right here And yeah i'm not making a good connection, but we have 202 volts across the thermal overload, which means that the switch is open. The thermal overload is stopping this compressor from trying to start anymore. So there's something wrong here now: um compressor, like i said, is extremely hot. So before we go any further, let's go investigate the condenser and see if the condenser is plugged up, because if it is, it could be causing it to go up on thermal overload.

It's certainly not the cleanest thing, but it's also not the dirtiest thing. So i mean it doesn't look horrible, we're gon na come in here, and this is system d, as in david, we're gon na go ahead and turn it off right there and then uh. We're gon na check out the starting components on this guy. So the starting components are in a crappy location back behind it, so we'll have to get the whole housing disconnected, and i think we can bring it around and investigate, can't really read the microfarad ratings.

It's kind of difficult. You can kind of make it out a little bit, but this capacitor is so hot, like i can't even hold it, but the microfarad is 88 to 106.. So it's reading 112, which is interesting because that's rather high, but we're gon na put it back in and then check the run cap. So the run cap is a 15 microfarad.

Let's go ahead and test that guy real, quick, pretty darn close to being good. I mean it's a hair low but interesting. Well, let's cool this compressor off we'll go, get our tool uh and we'll cool it out, we'll get some bags of ice or something we'll figure it out and we'll cool it off and see. If we can get that thermal overload to reset all right, i've got the cool presser tool on there cooling off the compressor.

Now um. This rack has got massive water leaks, it leaks down into the building. So i try to avoid washing it, but i had to i had the hose up here, so i just rinsed it real quick. We didn't put any cleaner on it.

We just gave it a quick, rinse and we'll see what that does for us um. I don't even know we may still have a bad compressor, it's hard to say, because the rack wasn't that dirty so, but we'll see, but they're, just gon na have to deal with the leaks for now normally like. If we're gon na clean this rack, we bring a shop vac with us, a big one, and we have you know two guys running two different shop vacs, sucking all the water out as fast as it's falling down. But that's not happening today, because it's really hot.

So um it's probably about 100 105, something like that outside. So, let's see what happens it's not running, i don't think it's going to reset. No, i think i can hear the overload clicking on and off still yeah just trip the overload again we'll try to cool it for a little bit longer, but the overload was reset, but the compressor is just not starting. Okay, we're getting power and it's start.

It's trying, but then it clicks off on overload. So it's the last stitch effort. I pulled the overload out just to see if i can get it to start we're going to measure the current and see what happens here. We go 33.

lock. Road ramp is 37, so we're pretty much drawing locked rotor. It's not doing anything, go ahead and kill it trip the breaker didn't trip the breaker yeah yeah. I tripped the breaker this guy's done.

This is an original compressor from 2004. It would change just about every other compressor in here. These things. Just you know, they're run to the ground, it's just so dang hot.

So it doesn't surprise me, so i'm gon na get all the information down. Um we're gon na talk to the customer. I'll probably end up having to change this tomorrow. This is uh friday july 9th right now so we'll see i might have to see if i can locate one i'll see what i can do tonight, but that's it for today, i'm gon na go give the customer the bad news right.

You know i try to be as efficient as possible. It's still frustrating, though, so we got ta go through that access through the scuttle and then to this one. This hook is a lifesaver, because i'm able to thread this down and if you carefully place your products, you can hook them. You know and pull it up now, because it's so confined right there.

You know, i'm gon na have to go down and kind of move. Some stuff, but one of these hooks man, it's really a lifesaver. This is made by klein the electrical tool manufacturer. I just pick it up in my local supply house um, but these things are awesome.

Man they're a lifesaver, i'm already tired and it's only 8 42.. A damn near brought my whole van up on the roof, and i still gon na have to get more as time goes on refrigerant and stuff. More than likely, um we're going to uh get everything staged where it needs to be. I've got a rope kind of staged right here and i am a nut guys.

I do this. My rope is down here. I leave it there so that way, when i go down, i can pull stuff up and i don't like my rope sitting on the ground in case water comes over here and stuff, so i'm all crazy about making everything nice and tidy as possible. You know so we're going to get everything over here where first step we got to do is start recovering the refrigerant from the compressor it's 85 and climbing it'll probably hit 105 today.

So it's only 8 40. So in a couple hours we'll hit 100. it's gon na be a long day. I had a brand new recovery cylinder, so it needed to be evacuated.

So we've got that running while i'm going to start getting the rack opened up and getting all my stuff out here, i'm going to get a water hose laid out with a mister because uh, like i said it's going to get hot today so plan is to Reuse, the existing refrigerant, that's in the system, so to do that, we got to make sure that we have a properly evacuated cylinder so we're down to 338. Now it's natural that it is gon na rise, but it's okay, all right um! So we're gon na go ahead and get this guy set up and hooked up and get the refrigerant being pulled out of the system, so we can get in there now. This compressor, of course, because it's a older compressor, that's the compressor! That's bad! That's the compressor! That's replacing it so it's going to be a partial re-pipe, because stuff is in different places which does suck, but it is what it is. So i purge everything open it up, leave everything open and leave this loose.

So that way, we purge all the air out of the lines and then we're ready to uh open this guy up and then turn this guy on now it's only 85 degrees right now, if i was having a problem, we could put that in ice and i Did bring buckets up here, but because we've got some cloud cover in the sky and it's kind of cool at the moment um. I don't think we're going to need to do that. I did use large diameter hoses from here to here. Okay, so those are 3.

8 id so that helps to speed up the process and reduce the restrictions. The biggest issue is the outlet, because this is your discharge and when you see this start going, i think this thing cuts off at 450 or 500 or something like that. That's when it becomes a problem, but i think we're gon na be okay uh. The recovery is just about done.

I'm just unbolting unscrewing, there's a very good possibility. I'm gon na change the dual pressure control. If i have one in my truck um recovery yeah, it's just uh purging right now. I have it on the self purge, so yeah we're doing good so far when it's a re-pipe like this everything's a little bit different.

So, like i had to move the discharge valve, i had to twist it out of the way, because the rotor lock for this is going to come out to here and it's going to bite heads. The new discharge line is going to be all the way back around here, so we're going to have to come up. I don't like doing that, but it is what it is um. This will be a process for section line, we'll put a stub there.

Um i've got it bolted down we'll deal with the electrical and the start component box when we're all done, because this is a single phase. So this right here is going to go straight down into that valve. I'll go get some 5 8. So baby steps will change the dryer last, i'm trying to think about the next guy when i'm piping, this thing in okay.

So what i'm doing is i'm putting the pressure control on this side of this valve and i'm putting the pressure control here instead of on the rotor lock valve. So that way we don't have to fight the rotor lock valve um, we'll have access ports because i'll put service keys on there. But if we ever need to change the high pressure control, we won't have to recover the entire charge, we'll just close that valve down. So before they had it on the wrong side of the valve, and it was a pain um next we're gon na go ahead and uh i've already pre-piped this and swaged it.

So we're gon na sweat in this one right here, but we're gon na have to use silver solder because it's steel to copper. So i'm using 56 silver solder, we're using sil uh stacil paste flux, we're gon na sweat. That on then we'll put some nitrogen on the system and sweat everything else in all right. I got the nitrogen hooked up on the other side, we're going to get in here and blaze, this stuff in real, quick, all right.

It's all sweat in um, i got ta put the rotolock gasket. In still another thing, i didn't point out: whenever you're brazing on these roto-lock valves or these steel valves, you need to actuate the stem okay mid seat it you never want it one way or the other. You want it in the middle because they will get stuck trust me um. So i'm going to inspect my welds or brace joints one more time.

We got to change the liquid line. Filter dryer, which is a flare that shouldn't be a problem and then we'll do a pressure test and pull a vacuum. Now pretty confident. This system has leaks because i've been chasing a very small leak in this guy for a while.

So we're probably not going to get a perfect vacuum, i'm using a service tee on this guy and it has a schrader depressor in it. So i put a schrader in this guy, so that means that i'll be able to change this uh. This high side pressure control without losing the charge - i just bust, this guy off. Okay, so that way, it makes it easier again.

I still have a valve there too, but i can now change a pressure control without even having to close that valve all right. So we're gon na undo the dryer um put a clean, the flare fittings off real good. I got a wet towel, we're gon na put a new spoiling catch-all and see also sight, glass and dryer and, as usual, i love the flare combination, because if you ever repair leaks and you have to come up onto the roof, you don't have to bring your Torches up to change the dryer, just a couple fittings you know so we're gon na slap, this guy in real, quick and then uh we'll do a pressure test and an evacuation all right. We got it all wired in so we have our starting components.

Tucked back there, dual pressure, control and main power coming in uh broke the dual pressure control with one of the lines, the 208 single phase and then yeah we're going to put the cover back on and then pressure test. Well, we're just about there running a pressure test at the moment using the tightness test on the field piece manifold. Like i said this thing, it's changed about 1.1 psi um. I think it has leaks, but we're going to give it some more time.

I've got a mister running right now because it's well a minute ago. It was 105, but it's dropping the temperature just because i'm running this to try to cool myself off, although my bag's getting a little wet but we're getting there part of the vacuum pump, we've got a uh uh. I want to point out that i have a micron gauge here for a reason, this is not where you normally put a micron gauge. The only reason to put a micron gauge on your pump is to test the pump, but i'm going to show something in a little while, once we start the evacuation so um, i started the field piece pump up with the gas ballast open.

Okay, we're gon na. Do our initial pull down um and then uh, we'll uh close the gas ballast and start the actual vacuum? So i just kind of wanted to point out that there's gon na be a difference between the two, because this is further from that vacuum pump. So 1400 microns and uh this one's at 800 microns. So i'm just trying to point out that placement of your micro engage is very, very important.

Now i'm pulling from both sides of the system right now, eventually i'll probably shut off one of the ports and then just do a true vacuum to where the actual uh vacuum micron gauge over. There is the last point in the system, but we'll get to that. In a little while that mister's really helping a lot okay, it's not the prettiest thing in the world, but i went around with some silicone and sealed up the things that i didn't want to. Vibrate.

Okay, it kind of looks like a turd, but it'll stop things from rubbing out. You know the conduits this guy rubbing on there that conduit it'll help. Okay, it's not the prettiest like i said, but it's functional, so i've already closed off the the high side port on the receiver. As far as the evacuation goes, so we're only pulling through the low side now, so it's going to slowly start rising because of that.

But eventually it'll stabilize out and start lowering again it's just that it was getting such a high pull from the high side. So we'll give it a few minutes longer and see where that gets us. So it's really important that when you're all done with your evacuation - and you choose to hook up your gauges, that your gauges either be purged or pulled into a vacuum. So i have not opened the valves and i'm just pulling evacuation on my gauges.

That way. They're good and then i'll open it to the system and go from there all right, we're purged all the way up to here. Scale zeroed out we're gon na open it up on the high side, dump refrigerant into there and go from there. So we're going to dump all this gas into there and then we'll check the liquid level and go and see if we have to add more all right, it won't take any more gas.

It took seven pounds we'll have to meter the rest in through the low side um. What i did because this unit's, like 80 degrees down in the box. So it's and it's got four coils. It's really gon na flood back to the compressor.

So i throttled down the suction service valve really low, got a compressor on there. We're allowed to run 9.1 amps, so we're going to kind of monitor it, because we don't want to overload the compressor so we're going to fire this guy up and hope that all as well that i did everything right there, we go 9.2 amps. So it's running! We have refrigerant so we're just going to meter in the refrigerant, with the suction service valve closed like that, because we're trying to act like a compressor, uh cpr valve, like a crankcase pressure regulator, we're slowly throttling the refrigerant coming back to the compressor. At the same time, you don't want it to run too long like that, because you could overheat the compressor too.

This misting device is actually helping too, because it's cooling it off it's over 100 outside right now, but it's reading 96 in here, so we're doing good. So far, but you can see we have a really high suction pressure. Even with that valve throttled back, the compressor is frosting up um, so we're just gon na let it run for a bit slowly, adding a little more gas all right. It's warming up now that i turned the mister off it's about 103..

I imagine it'll get up to 105.. This guy's done. It's installed, we're still flooding back pretty good though, but you know not much. I can do about that.

It's got the right amount of refrigerant. Liquid level is good. We still need to get a crankcase heater because that one doesn't fit. So we need to do that.

Um, we'll come back on another day. This is all put back together. Everything's good liquid levels marked we're gon na call this one done hopefully get home. I don't know, i think i got ta go run.

Another call, though so we'll see, but hopefully i get home at a decent time. Today. I'd like to enjoy my saturday a little bit, it has been a long weekend to say the least. So um today is july, 10th, so july 9th was a long day.

I worked until midnight after the first part of this video i ended up. I went home and i sat down and i started to watch a movie with the family and then i got another service call. So i was gone for like another four hours, doing a walk-in freezer repair and then i got home about midnight. I slept for.

I think six hours or so and then woke up and uh went and did this compressor job. And then i got done with this compressor job around 11am and then had two more calls. After that, a walk-in freezer call and then a walk-in cooler call. And then i got home, maybe let's see it's 8 50 p.m.

Now i got home maybe about six o'clock in the evening and then i've been editing for the last two hours. So it's been a long day. I'm sure i'm gon na get calls tomorrow too. Tomorrow's actually my daughter's birthday, so i'm hoping i'm home for most of that, but anyway, so um.

You know it's important to have a proper hydration right. It's it's well! Over 100. 105. 110 degrees.

This last week it's been really hot and we've been just. You know non-stop busy boom boom boom. You know um anywhere from eight to 12 hours every day, just knocking it out. So it's important to remember, to hydrate and to eat food, see i'm the worst person at eating food, but i do remember when it starts to get hot.

It's like i have to force myself to eat because for me i don't know if it works. The same for everybody else, but what happens is you know? I don't eat breakfast. I know that's horrible, but i don't. I don't eat breakfast, i drink coffee and have water and all that stuff and then i usually eat a decent lunch and then dinner but um.

I start to crash big time and i'll get jelly brain um from the heat. You know and i could drink water all day long, but still it's it's. I need nutrients. You know your body needs things to calories to burn so that way it can function.

At least mine does okay, so um. I have to force myself to eat, but i really make an effort and actually having an apprentice with me, really helps because i'm forced, like you know, we got to take a lunch at the right time. You know and all that stuff, so it really helps me to to keep food in my body and have energy to make it through these days. Okay, so you know we have to work these long hours, sometimes so, when it comes to you know having the proper energy and staying hydrated, it helps you to to have a level head when you're diagnosing things, so this one was a little confusing a little frustrating.

I will say that i didn't catch it on video, but i ended up because i was a little bit worried about that capacitor. It was kind of a funky reading, so what i ended up doing was going and grabbing a universal start cap, because i have those ones from amrat. If you guys didn't know this turbo 200, you know they make those run, those universal run caps. They actually make a turbolytic 50, which is a universal start capacitor.

So i actually took one of those and threw it on the system, because i was a little bit worried about that. Capacitor reading high the you know the start capacitor for this one and it still wouldn't start. Okay, so um, you know, compressor was dead for sure and it happens. You know it's an o4 compressor.

It's it's lived, its life, you know and it's constant abuse from this customer running in this high ambient temperatures and stuff like that, so dirty condenser. All the time i mean it's just inevitable um i do. I did save the compressor because i want to autopsy it. I'm very curious, you know i don't always get to do that, but it is kind of nice in weird situations like this, because i want to know what killed it like.

What made that compressor lock up? Is it out of oil, because if it is out of oil, that oil is down in the system somewhere, and it's probably going to make its way back up to this new compressor, so i will autopsy it in the future. Unfortunately, i didn't have time to do it before this video - i probably won't get to it for a week or two um, just with how busy we are, but but um you know other than that. I had an apprentice with me. The first part of the video, but then when i came back it was saturday i was by myself.

You know so you try to work as efficient as possible. Try to stage everything, lift it up with the rope um. You know and same thing. I was running the misting device, the whole time.

I was working, keeping me cool and um. Every time i went down to the van i took something with me. I had to force myself like hey because sometimes i'm like no, no i'll do it all. At the end, but no i had to force myself because i didn't want to spend two hours at the end roping stuff down.

You know so every time i went down i took something with me. I brought something up back and forth back and forth, and i try for me to make sure that i i i set everything up so that way that makes that easier, like leaving the rope hanging down because oftentimes i'll go down and not be thinking about it And boom boom come back up and it's like, oh then, you got to climb up, get the rope drop it back down. It's just wasting energy, so try to keep the rope hanging down. So that way, you know when you do come back up.

You can just rope it up. It's super easy that way, um again trying to stay cool so um, i re-pipe the system in a way that it's going to make it easier for us in the future. Uh pressure, control, failures, happen and on these systems. The way that they're designed when you have a high pressure control failure it kind of sucks, because you got to recover the entire charge to change the high pressure control.

Well, the way that i set this one up with schraders behind the the swivel t's or the access t's. Now you can just loosen the access t, it'll, you know, stop pushing on the schrader and then boom. You can change the pressure control, so try to think smart when you're doing re-pipes and installations. I don't like to try to reinvent the wheel, but in a situation like this, you know it was.

It was uh easy. You know it wasn't a big deal. I had to re-pipe it anyway. So got the system started back up um the evacuation actually went a lot better than i thought, and the pressure test went a lot better than i thought.

I still think that i have a small leak in the system, but i mean it was doing really good. It passed the evacuation and it passed the pressure test. Surprisingly, so we'll have to see you know it's possible that that that leak that i've been chasing was in the compressor. I was thinking about that.

Maybe it was in the the service valve or something - and i just couldn't see it - i don't know, but the system is up and running. I was a little bit frustrated because the customer had come up a few times while i was working and they were kind of like. Are you done yet? Are you done yet, and i just told him dude, i'm not gon na be done for a couple hours. You know um and, and you know he was cool like he was very apologetic like i'm.

So sorry you have to work in the heat that kind of stuff, but so um. When i was all done, i went to go. Take my stuff down and he's like cool, so we can put stuff in the box now and i was like yeah. You guys can load it up.

It should be down to temp um. Then i go over to the box to look at it. It's like dude. They already had food in there like.

What are you guys thinking i, whatever you know, it's not my problem, so i just told them it's going to take that much longer to come down to temp, because i don't know when they put that food in there. So now i'm trying to bring down you know the temperature of the food and whatever but um. It was a long day to say the least. Okay lots of service calls and uh lots of cleaning.

Essentially, okay, um, you know when it comes. I wanted to uh talk about the water leaks too. I kind of talked about that a little bit in the the first part of the video um, this customer so the way that they installed that refrigeration rack they did not leave anywhere underneath the rack for water to drain out. So naturally, there's holes underneath the compressors there's little screw holes and different things like that.

It's not 100 waterproof and water gets underneath the rack, and then it gets onto the flashing. That's underneath it and the flashing must have holes in it and be rotted out um. So it leaks down into the building. So the first day that i was there, the customer came up and they're like the heck.

It's leaking water everywhere, make it stop, and i was like nothing you could do man like deal with it. You know i wasn't trying to be a punk, but i usually try to be very careful washing that rack, but it was so hot and it was just like guys. I had to wash it. You know so.

You're just gon na have to deal with water leaks. I've told them so many times to get a roof route. Unfortunately, i hope they don't get a roofer out anytime soon, because we have to lift that rack up the solution. Is we have to lift the rack up enough for a roofer to get a whole new flashing underneath it, and then we need to put it on.

Like one by twos or something like that, so that way it has drainage now, so that's going to be a whole process and roofer has tried to get in there before and he mastic the heck out of the line set penetrations and stuff. So it's just going to be a miserable mess. Trying to lift that rack up. I don't want to have to undo every refrigeration line, so the theory is, is we'll have to get the mastic out from on the refrigeration lines, and then we have a good 12 inches uh, where there's a riser for the refrigeration lines before they go over to All the units, so if they do it right, if we have a crane correct, we can lift it up.

You know and put blocks underneath it or whatever and then slowly set it down. You know, or i've done it before, like we, we could put a bunch of air bags under it or all kinds of different things, so that'll be a whole nother process for another day. You know anyways. I really really appreciate you guys making it to the end of the video.

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