This video is brought to you by sportlin quality integrity and tradition. Well, the last time i was here for an emergency service call. Suction line was missing on this one cross, our fingers - that's not happening today. So the customer said this thing is making a loud noise really loud and it was scaring him that sounds like a plastic bag.

Well, oh yeah. There's a plastic bag stuck in the condenser fan blade. Well. This is not the end of the world.

Okay, cool! Let's open this guy up, hopefully it's just a simple pulling the bag out all right. So, let's see, if there's any real damage done to this, oh wow, how in the heck did they even get this thing in here man? It is wound up in here for real good gosh. Oh wow, that is uh something special all right. So is there any long-term damage? I don't think so turn it on make sure the bearings aren't going bad in the motor.

I don't see any real damage. So, okay, they said it was working. He just said it was making a nope bearings are bad in the motor yeah. I threw it out of balance all right.

Well, he said it was working but that it was making a loud noise. So the plastic bag was the noise, but yeah i did ruin the motor, so we're gon na have to get a new motor i'll get the specs off of it. I think i'll be able to make it through the night i'll take a current reading on it, but yeah. Clearly, there's something going on with that motor all right.

We're gon na go ahead and put a new blade on here and a new motor, and actually the cool thing is there's heat craft part numbers right. There bam bam. My supply house has them in stock i'll pick up them in the morning and get back out here, but i think we're going to make it through the night yeah there's just some bearing noise in there. This thing can also be cleaned.

We'll definitely do that. So it's shut down because there's a smart evaporator controller, so it pumped down all right. It is the next day i am back um. I managed to get a motor blade and capacitor, so we're gon na go ahead and turn this guy off and uh get that changed out.

Um the box is down to temperature. They haven't had any problems, so we should be good but we'll change it out and see what else goes on so really not too difficult. I just broke the zip ties free, so we can get to the wires over here uh. I do have to say.

I really dig this. I found this klein multi driver and you can take it out and it's impact rated and you got all your different things. So i could really get rid of most of the bits in my van it's nice having a half inch for your drill, plus that guy uh, pretty cool all right, uh, motor's, identical same thing, just a interlinked part, so we're just going to swap it out um. The wires and everything will match right out because it's an oem replacement, no big deal.

The condenser is nice and clean. I can see light through it, so we're good on that. So this isn't too bad at all. Always pay attention to the current and the information off of the normal motor um make sure that when we put it in, we can amp it and make sure everything's good to go.

So this one's allowed to run 2.7 amps. So when you're installing the motors, what i typically do in this situation, is i installed the blade loose. It's still just finger tight. That way, i can set the dot.

You know the depth in the shroud. The way that i want it. The next thing is install the motor label, if possible, upright so the previous one wasn't upright. So it was a little difficult to see just for the next guy electrical be smart about it.

Now they don't really have conduit over here, but i installed the electrical so that way, i can zip tie it back down to the ground where they have their original zip ties. So i got it all installed on the other side, got it all zip tied down and i'm coming over here and i'm just cleaning up the wiring over here trying to make it look a little bit neater secured, zip tied in i'm gon na shorten some wires Because they're a little long like this right here, um but looking down here again, you pay attention. Man, look at this, there's a broken wire right there and that would have been a potential intermittent electrical short. Maybe so we'll definitely clean that up and make it look.

Pretty picked up uh some really nice. I've bought and heat shrink butt splices before, but i don't know the brand, but these ones are super nice. I got them from like a local hardware store, let's see if it says anything on there. It doesn't really say what brand they are, but they turn out really nice and they shrink down really well super cool, so got ta, let them cool and then we're just kind of cleaning it up a little bit.

More so have a look see it's hard for you guys to see, but i just was finishing up all the zip ties and everything and this contactor is smoked in there. I just happened to see like there was a bunch of white crap in there yeah. It's gon na be hard for you guys to see until i pull it out, but i've seen all this and it made me investigate yeah that it's totally smoked and they're all blacked out and burnt. So my van is a bit of a mess.

It's not as organized as i'd like it to be, but contactors are right here. Let's see what we got here, we need 208, three phase with lugs. So that's a 208 with screws, 208 3 phase with lugs um, it's a 40 amp that'll be plenty big enough. I usually carry 40s instead of 30s looks like everything else is yeah, it's the same cool all right.

Let's just slap this guy in all right got this guy back together, cleaned up as best as possible. You know it's not perfect. It's! It is what it is, but kind of cleaned it up. We can fire this up uh.

I hooked everything back up the way that it was, but we still got to make sure the compressor is running in the right direction and, let's hope it doesn't blow up in my face. Okay, now it is going to turn off because the evaporators i'm sure are going to pump down uh they're, probably in an error message, so we'll wait and see because they are smart, evaporators and we'll go in and look at them in a minute. But this guy is running in the right direction: no crazy vibration, let's power down one time, just to make sure it's hard with the camera to see if it's actually going in the right direction - and it is that's correct, so we're good on that everything looks good Turn it back on we'll take a current on the motor and see what it's running all right: we're allowed to run 2.7 amps and we're running 2.2, so we're good on current draw on the motor everything's good. The unit is back and running so i'm going to start assembling it and then we'll go in and check on the evaporator tip, i'm waiting for the walk-in to come down to temp.

I quickly pulled this contactor apart, so remember. I changed it because i saw it right. I dug into it, because i saw that white powder residue whatever that is, and it drove me to look at those points, look at how burnt they are look at how bad that is. So it's all about thinking.

Big picture eliminate some headaches: save the customer, a future service, call for sure all right, it's nice and cold in here equipment's running it does show two active alarms on the intelligent. I can guarantee those were the alarms for me, shutting it off for so long. This one will have the same, but everything's working the temp in here barely even came up, so all is well, but uh yeah we're good to go. This was a long night.

This was actually about two three months ago, but i remember because i had a walk-in freezer call before this and it was like a four-hour call uh. It was that was in the evening too, and by the time i got done with that, i had to drive all over the place to get all the parts for that walk-in freezer repair. Then i still had this call to go to so i probably rolled up to this call about 9 30 10 o'clock at night. Something like that - and i didn't know what i was walking into and i was a little bit worried because this location has a history of things: getting stolen the copper and different things.

It's happened many many times because just in a bad area, luckily it wasn't that. Okay, but the previous times, like i said in the video someone had stole all the copper lines for the walk-in freezer and that was a late night trying to get that thing up and running. But so the manager, you know called me because they heard a noise and they were really concerned about it and i had when they called me a couple hours previous, i said just go outside and shut off the disconnect switch. So when i walked up and it being off, that was because i had asked the manager just to go ahead and shut it off.

I didn't want it to create more damage, because i didn't know exactly what it was. So when i got there, of course, it was just a plastic bag stuck in the fan blade you know inside there, but we don't just stop there. We don't just rip out the plastic bag, turn it on and walk away, even though i didn't want to be there. It was late at night, we're still gon na, take a step back and look at the big picture like i'm always talking about right and after i let it run for a few minutes.

You guys heard, as i was talking to the camera, all of a sudden, the bearing noise came out. The bearings were going bad in the motor okay. Luckily, i was able to get them through the night uh just getting the bag out of there and it ran through the night, and then we came back out the next day. I really appreciate the fact that heat craft puts those data or the part number tags on the the fan, blade and fan motor.

Now i could have found the information right, but it just saved me that much time because i just looked on the supply house particular supply house that i went to, they have a mobile app. I looked on the mobile app boom found. The part number said they had them in stock, so i was at the supply house first thing in the morning to pick up the parts okay came back out and again we don't just stop with the motor and the blade we put those in and then we Evaluate the system we're going through everything and i find a potential electrical short right - the jacket had broken on one of the wires and it could have rubbed out now it didn't, but i saved the customer a potential service call because i was looking and listening using My senses, okay, it's so important! I preach this so much. Please do not wear headphones.

When you are working, i don't care if you're doing a preventative maintenance or anything like that. Okay. Now i totally understand if you have to wear some sort of hearing protection because you're working in motor rooms or you're, you know i mean, there's certain circumstances that you need to to protect yourself. But your senses are one of your best tools, if not the best tool that you have as a technician right.

If you have a troubleshooting kind of mind right and you can methodically go through things, your senses, your smell, your sight, the sounds that you hear the feelings that you get. You know touching things and different stuff like that, really helps you to troubleshoot. So in this situation i decided to start cleaning up some of the wiring, because i wasn't a fan of it and i noticed that you know the wire had a broken jacket. I was able to cut that back and repair it boom.

But then, while i was in there just kind of cleaning up the wires, i noticed that the compressor contactor was really burnt. Okay, now it was still working and yes, it probably could have gotten another week. Maybe or maybe it only got another day - we don't know. Okay, but we bring all this information to the customer and i went ahead and changed the contactor right before it became a problem now i know there's people out there that tell me you know i changed too many contactors contactors are a very low cost part, especially On three phase that can cause massive damage, you can ruin a compressor if you single phase a contactor on a three-phase system.

Okay, you can ruin a compressor that can turn out to be. Who knows, i mean anywhere from a 4 000 job to the sky's. The limit, depending on the size of the compressor, all because a contactor filled right, so change them when they are going bad. You have to learn the signs, though right and it's normal to see somewhere in a compressor contactor.

But i can't stress this enough: when you're working on three-phase equipment don't play games when it comes to contactors, because a contactor is good until it's not and then it's bad right if you're lucky it doesn't pull in. But if you're unlucky it single phases and it ruins a compressor, so change them when they're going bad okay, so i was able to change the contactor. The condenser fan motor the blade the capacitor, and i was able to repair that wire, and this system is back up and running has been running for a couple months now and all is well the entire time. Also, i'm communicating with the customer.

Okay, letting them know what i'm finding building trust with the customer. Okay, be honest with the customer: i'm not here to make a quick buck. Okay, i don't want to make a quick buck. I want to work for this particular customer at this particular location for the next 20 plus years.

Okay, i want to continue to work for them and in order for that to even be a possibility requires honesty on my part, integrity and a relationship between myself and the customer. Okay, so be kind to one another. I really appreciate you guys it's so humbling to get all the support from you guys. Thank you so very much check out my website.

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